Date: 21 March 2016 (Mon)

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: D1-LP-06

Language: Cantonese, with simultaneous interpretation in English

香港流行文化的變與不變 — 由毛記電視分獎典禮說起

眾所周知，香港流行文化曾經輝煌，卻已今非昔比。曾經的明星陸續殞落，過去的大台漸被嫌棄。迎面而來的，是一個強調網絡、分眾的新流行年代。 月前毛記電視分獎典禮大受歡迎，全城哄動，正是新時代的標誌。當下香港流行文化的世界究竟是怎樣？相較舊秩序，它變的是什麼？不變乃至永恆的，又是什麼？

講者：阿果，《立場新聞》專題記者，《明報》星期日生活專欄作者。香港大學社會學系畢業，著有《拾年紀：香港流行年代誌 (2000-2010）》。鍾情流行文化，肉緊大眾媒介。

Changes & Constants of Hong Kong Popular Culture and the TV Most Award Show

It is common knowledge that the once splendid Hong Kong popular culture has passed its peak. Former stars are diminishing and old canons of television production ridiculed. What lies ahead is a new era of popular culture that values digital networks and segmented audienceship. The alternative award show “TV Most First Guy Ten Big Ging Cook Gum Cook Awards Distribution” organised by the creative studio TV Most earlier this year was a tremendous hit across town, and could very well be the symbol of this new age. How exactly could we conceive local popular culture right here, right now? What has evolved from the old order? What are the unchanged and the constants?

Speaker: Ah Guo, feature reporter of Stand News and columnist of Sunday Ming Pao. Graduated from the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. Author of the book “A Decade: Notes on Hong Kong Popular Culture (2000-2010)”. Fond of popular culture and mass media.

In collaboration with the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong & Macau, The Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages and Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities is pleased to present the University Francophone Film Festival. Being a part of the Francophonie Festival 2016, four selected films will be shown at HKIEd campus on Wednesday nights in March. Featuring couples struggling with socio-cultural differences and warfare, a cat that is eager to talk about religion and homeless wanderers in the most beloved cosmopolitan, they present four diverse visions from the francophone region.

Details of the film screenings are as follows:

Dates: Wednesdays in March

Time: 19:30-21:30

Venue: D1-LP-02

Subtitles are in English.

No ticket purchase or registration is required, all are welcome!

02 March

Pas son genre

(Not My Type) 111 mins, Comedy, 2014

A young philosophy teacher from Paris is sent to Arras for a year. He meets a pretty hair stylist who becomes his lover. They could share this perfect romance if their cultural and social differences were not as deep.

*Trailer

09 March

Une bouteille à la mer

(A Bottle in the Gaza Sea) 100 mins, Drama, 2011

She is Israeli, he Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem, he in Gaza. Separated by a mere sixty miles between them, how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodshed stand in the way?

*Trailer

16 March

Le chat du rabbin

(The Rabbi’s Cat) 100 mins, Animation, 2011

In an Algerian Jewish community during the 1920s, a Rabbi finds that his cat has gained the ability to speak after swallowing a talking parrot and expresses its desire to convert to Judaism.

*Trailer

23 March

Au bord du monde

(The Edge of the World) 98 mins, Documentary, 2014

Paris at night… this is where the homeless people live. They haunt the streets, bridges, and corridors in the metro. On the edge of the world where society no longer offers protection, they face us and they talk.

*Trailer

For enquiries, please contact Dr. Grégoire Winterstein

Click here to learn more about the Francophone Festival 2016 which also offers activities related to literature, theatre and music etc.

日期: 23-2-2016

時間: 16:00-17:30

地點: D1-LP-06

(Please scroll down for English)

獨立電影《十年》被譽為香港的「超現實警世預言書」，亦有人主張其中的某些故事其實不是預言，而是對現時、現實的回應。電影中五部短片以迴異的電影語言和視覺風格大膽回應政治和衝突，言簡意駭，引起各式詮釋。流行文化與人文學研究中心有幸邀請到其中幾位導演和編劇與專研香港電影文化的香港大學比較文學系講師羅玉華博士對談，深入分享創作緣由和心得。如你對《十年》、電影、故事書寫、藝術、本土文化有興趣, 此座談會都會是難得的經驗。

嘉賓：

《浮瓜》導演郭瑧

《冬蟬》導演、編劇黃飛鵬

《本地蛋》導演、編劇伍嘉良

香港大學比較文學系講師羅玉華

《十年》將在香港教育學院放映，請參考學生會專頁：https://goo.gl/ms3Ofg

Date: 23-2-2016

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: D1-LP-06

The independent film “Ten Years” has been praised by some as a “surrealist prophetic admonition” to Hong Kong, and many have seen it as a response to the city’s current conflicts and unique postcolonial identity. Using a range of cinematic techniques and visual styles, the five short sequences boldly address the political conflicts leaving much room for multiple interpretations. The Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities is pleased to present some of the film’s directors and screenwriters in conversation with Dr. Fiona Law, a scholar specialising in Hong Kong film culture.

The seminar would be conducted in Cantonese, with simultaneous interpretation in English

Guest list:

KWOK Zune, Director of “Extras”

WONG Fei-Pang, Director and Screenwriter of “Season of the End”

NG Ka-Leung, Director and Screenwriter of “Local Egg”

Fiona Law, Lecturer of the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong,

日期：03-03-2016

時間：10:30-12:00

地點：D2-LP-04，香港教育學院

名額：15人

用具：自備(手繪或數碼繪圖皆可)

招生要求：必須熟習繪畫技巧，須於報名時提交至少一份作品以作遴選

人氣插畫家團隊爵爵與貓叔將來臨香港教育學院主持一場插畫工作坊。工作坊以藝術理念的開發和創新為目標，與同學分享有關設計具個人風格的角色人像和以社會時事作畫的心得，並指導同學即場創作。

工作坊流程：
10:30 開場簡介 (5 mins)
10:35 角色設計心得分享、指導學員設計一個代表自己的角色 (50mins)
11:25 小休 (5 mins)
11:30 時事入畫心得分享、主持一件集體創作作品 (30mins)
12:00 完結

日期: 03-03-2016

時間: 15:30-17:00

地點: D1-LP-04, 香港教育學院

語言: 國語/廣東話

網絡社交平台讓插畫家脫離傳統媒體框架， 自由發表畫作抒發己見、與讀者直接交流。 在香港大受歡迎的插畫家團隊爵爵與貓叔， 擅長以黑白色為主調的俐落風格訴說趣事和時事，又以銳利的異鄉目光描繪城市百態， 在Facebook連載成《台港大不同》系列。

流行文化與人文學研究中心邀請到爵爵和貓叔分享創作心得，並和同樣來自台灣的黃宗儀教授漫談在新媒體時代裡，插畫、城市文化和個體一起經歷的轉變。

Date: 19 Jan 2016 (Tue)

Time: 16:30-18:30

Venue: D2-LP-08, The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Moderator: Dr. Emily Ridge (Lecturer, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies)

Linda Kennedy will talk about “Sit Down Comedy”, a concept she created to challenge the male-dominated comedy business, as quoted “humour is like going to the toilets, men stand up, women sit down”. She offers alternative comedy events  by using a different kind of position, topics and articulations.

Linda was also featured in TEDx Hong Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcqvuc8QvY