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Moonlight Movies: Open Air Cinema Back in Hong Kong

September 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Good news for alfresco loving movie-goers, Moonlight Movies, Hong Kong’s first seasonal outdoor cinema, is back at at Cyberport Podium in Pokfulam this October and November.

©2007 Openair Hong Kong Ltd

©2007 Openair Hong Kong Ltd

The screening schedule runs as follows:

  • Saturday 3rd October – Sex and The City (2008)
  • Friday 9th October – Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
  • Friday 13th November – Wall Street (1987)
  • Saturday 14th November – Moulin Rouge (2001)

You can cosy up on the beanbags, and there’s a food and bar service run by Dublin Jack’s.

Tickets are $200 each – not including food and bar – and can be booked via www.openairhk.com (movie goers must be 18 years and over).

Categories: Arts · Culture · Hong Kong

Stellar South African Writers to Visit Hong Kong

June 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Top South African writers André Brink, Mandla Langa and Nobel Prize winner, Nadine Gordimer, are set to come to Hong Kong for the 2010 Literary Festival,  South Africa’s Consule-General for Hong Kong and Macau, Nomatemba Tambo, announced yesterday.

Brink, Langa and Gordimer will be the first ever African writers to take part in Hong Kong’s annual literary event. Their visits are part of a year-long programme of events organised by the South African Consulate-General to celebrate the 2010 Football World Cup.

Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991; Mandla Langa won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Africa with his novel The Lost Colours of the Chameleon.

Ms. Tambo also announced that Archbishop Tutu is to visit Hong Kong next year.

Looks like the 2010 Hong Kong International Literary Festival will be a sell-out!

Categories: Arts · Culture · Hong Kong · Literature
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