“Literary Hong Kong”: Screenings, Poetry Readings, and Talks

Dates: September 14–17, 2024

Venue: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library

Address: 8th Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5

Free Admission | Registration Required | RSVP: chk.library@utoronto.ca

Schedule (Click here for more details)

September 14, 2024 (Saturday)

Pre-screening Sharing

Director WONG King Fai; Co-producer/Literary Adviser Mary Shuk Han WONG

Languages: Chinese and English

2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.

Screening: Leung Ping Kwan: Boundary 梁秉鈞：東西

Languages: Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles

3:00 p.m.–5:20 p.m.

September 15, 2024 (Sunday)

Screening: Garden of Forking Dream 遊園驚夢

1:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.

Screening: Liu Yichang: 1918 劉以鬯：1918

Languages: Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles

1:20 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Post-screening Sharing

Director WONG King Fai and Co-producer/Literary Adviser Mary Shuk Han WONG

Languages: Chinese and English

3:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

“Voice of Verse” and In Memory of Leung Ping Kwan Poetry Readings

Keith LIU 池荒懸, Mary Shuk Han WONG 黃淑嫻, Ken LEE 不清, Chris SONG 宋子江

Languages: Cantonese and English

4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

September 17, 2024 (Tuesday)

Research Talk: “Let’s get together sometime:” Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914–2024)

Speaker: Dr. Mary Shuk Han WONG(Department of Chinese, Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Language: English

5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

Organized by the Department of Language Studies UTSC and the Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library with co-sponsorship from the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Musical Stone Publishing Limited (Hong Kong) Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council