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The Works：New art spaces: Sunsmith and Odds & Ends, HK old photos@ASHK & in the studio: True Colors

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Many welcomed the government’s announcement last week of a relaxation of pandemic-related restrictions. Restaurants can welcome customers at night. Cinemas, museums, and performance venues can open again. So can art galleries. And as Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central prepare for their upcoming events, many are hoping to get back to business as usual. There are even some new kids on the block.

Hong Kong changes fast. That can be a good thing, but one side effect is that we can quickly lose connections with our past and forget the way Hong Kong and its people used to look. Photographers, both those based here and those passing through, help to preserve that past. On show at the Asia Society’s Hong Kong Center until early June are 87 photographs of Hong Kong from the 1940s to the 1970s through the eyes of three such photographers. German photographer Hedda Morrison arrived in 1946 and stayed for six months. She photographed Hong Kong’s people and its streets. New Zealand-born Brian Brake came in 1957 and lived here, on and off, up to the mid-1970s. Singaporean sailor Lee Fook Chee arrived in 1947, worked as a photographer for many years, and remained here until his death in 2012.

The PMA Music Foundation (PMF) was set up in 2003 to promote inclusivity and to enable musicians and other inspirational figures to work with those often side-lined by society. In 2019 the organisation founded True Colors Symphony, an inclusive orchestra, to develop and highlight the musical talents of the differently-abled, and those from different demographic groups and ethnicities. The Symphony also has 66 choir members. In 2020, they gave their inaugural performance at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Project manager Mandy Li and erhu player Yang Enhua are here to tell us more.
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문화 - Culture
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Hong Kong, The Works, art
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