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1/ Everlasting Cantonese Music
| Date: | 2022/9/7 (Wednesday) to 2023/1/17 (Tuesday) |
| Time: | Library Opening Hours |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Arts Resource Centre) |
| Description: | “Everlasting Cantonese Music” is a project curated by TUNG Tsz-ching, the huqin musician of the Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble. The project re-creates the earliest Cantonese Music performance according to the Hong Kong first Cantonese Music textbook “The Essentials for Strings and Vocal Music” written by renowned master YAU Hok-chau in 1916 and explores the scenery of the Cantonese culture in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition shows the characteristic and achievement of the project and lets the audience know more about the Cantonese Music. |
1/ Exhibition on Documents of Food Culture
| Date: | 2022/9/1 (Thursday) to 2022/12/31 (Saturday) |
| Time: | Library Opening Hours |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (8/F Rare Book Reading Room) |
| Description: | Hong Kong, a place of preserving and developing Cantonese cuisine, is renowned as the paradise of delicacy and that people can taste a wide variety of regional cuisines and culinary delights around the world. With stable development of catering service, the flourishing growth in cook book publishing, food column writing and other literature related to food have been accompanied. Showcasing the documents selected from the Documents Collection Campaign, the exhibition revisits the transformation of local Chinese restaurants in the past hundred years in remembrance of old tastes. It also explores how the publishing and media industries have contributed to the food literature. |
1/ Quality Reading Culture Exhibition
| Date: | 2022/12/1 (Thursday) to 2022/12/31 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library |
1/ Roving Exhibition on the Winning Entries of The 32nd Chinese Poetry Writing Competition 2022
| Date: | 2022/12/1 (Thursday) to 2022/12/28 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | Library Opening Hours |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F) |
2/ Roving Exhibition on the Winning Entries of The 32nd Chinese Poetry Writing Competition 2022
| Date: | 2022/9/30 (Friday) to 2022/10/26 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | Library Opening Hours |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F) |
1/ Introduction to Internet
| Date: | 2022/12/28 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
2/ General Introduction to Library Catalogue (For readers aged below 12)
| Date: | 2022/12/17 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
3/ Introduction to e-Books & e-Databases: e-Reading : e-Books and e-Magazines
| Date: | 2022/12/15 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
4/ General Introduction to Library Catalogue (For readers 12 or above)
| Date: | 2022/12/14 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
5/ Introductory Session on the Multimedia Information System (For readers aged 12 or above)
| Date: | 2022/12/10 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
6/ General Introduction to Library Facilities
| Date: | 2022/12/7 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
7/ Introductory Session on the Multimedia Information System (For readers aged below 12)
| Date: | 2022/12/2 (Friday) |
| Time: | 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
1/ Library Guided Tour (Conducted in Cantonese)
| Date: | 2022/12/24 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
2/ Library Guided Tour (Conducted in Cantonese)
| Date: | 2022/12/18 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
3/ Library Guided Tour (Conducted in English)
| Date: | 2022/12/16 (Friday) |
| Time: | 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
4/ Library Guided Tour (Conducted in Putonghua)
| Date: | 2022/12/10 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
5/ Library Guided Tour (Conducted in Cantonese)
| Date: | 2022/12/4 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (G/F User Education Hall) |
1/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/12/18 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
2/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/12/11 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
3/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/12/4 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
4/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/11/27 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
5/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/11/20 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
6/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/11/13 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
7/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/11/6 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
8/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/10/30 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
9/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/10/23 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
10/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/10/16 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
11/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/10/9 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
12/ Parent-child Storytelling Workshops: Journey of Fairy Tales
| Date: | 2022/10/2 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (2/F Children's Library) |
1/ Stretching Children's Imagination Through Parent-Child Reading
| Date: | 2022/12/11 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Children's Library) |
| Description: | Information available in Chinese only. |
1/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022 / Subject Talk on Hong Kong Literature: Reading and Rereading Good Books: Derek CHUNG’s Floating Thoughts; Life Situations in Travel Literature
| Date & Time: | 10 December 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
2/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022 / Subject Talk on Hong Kong Literature: Reading and Rereading Good Books: LIU Yichang’s Experiments in Short Stories’ Form; The Various Pleasures of Reading Science Fiction
| Date & Time: | 19 November 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
3/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022 / Subject Talk on Hong Kong Literature: Reading and Rereading Good Books: The Perspective of Scholar-Poet KWONG Kin-hung’s Guang-xi Anthology; Writing Down an Invisible City
| Date & Time: | 15 October 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
4/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022: Thinking About Things in This Day and Age: Echoing in Time: Writing Things…in a Lyrical Mood?
| Date & Time: | 11 June 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
5/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022: Thinking About Things in This Day and Age: On Writing Things: Writers Reveal the Secrets of Their Craft
| Date & Time: | 14 May 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
6/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022: Thinking About Things in This Day and Age: To Include or Not to Include: Insights from the Editors of The Compendium of Hong Kong Literature 1950 - 1969 (Talk cancelled)
| Date & Time: | 9 April 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
7/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022: Reading Vision and Beyond: Translated Literature Reading for Secondary School Students (Talk Cancelled)
| Date & Time: | 19 March 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
8/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022: Reading Vision and Beyond: Modern and Contemporary Literature Reading for Secondary School Students (Talk Cancelled)
| Date & Time: | 12 February 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
9/ Monthly Literary Talk 2022: Reading Vision and Beyond: Classical Literature Reading for Secondary School Students (Talk Cancelled)
| Date & Time: | 15 January 2022 (Saturday) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F.) |
1/ Embracing Digital Transformation
| Date: | 2022/12/10 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Activity Room 1) |
| Description: | Nowadays, technology is developing rapidly such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, 5G, extended reality and blockchain. Robots, Internet of Things, Non-Fungible Token, metaverse and other applications have been launched respectively. The speaker will share his observations and experience, and explore the new era of digital transformation. |
2/ From Smartphone to Smart Application
| Date: | 2022/9/17 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Activity Room 1) |
| Description: | Smartphone becomes an essential device for everyone from primary school students, housewives, professionals to retired persons. In the restaurants and vehicles, everyone addicts to the phone. There are more than million of applications can be downloaded free of charge. How to pick the useful apps for yourselves? The speaker will share a handful of practical mobile apps with illustration. Those apps will elevate the quality of life and provide convenience. Don't miss the chance to catch up with the latest technology. |
3/ The Impact of Hyperautomation on Enterprises and Individuals
| Date: | 2022/6/11 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Activity Room 1) |
| Description: | Typical automation uses technology to automate tasks that once required humans to complete. Hyperautomation includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). It also covers a series of tools that can be automated, such as analysis, design, monitoring, and so on. Hyperautomation usually leads to the creation of the organisation's Digital Twin. Speakers will share mainstream Hyperautomation tools/platforms and explore the impact on enterprises and individuals. |
4/ Your Password, Your Safe Key (Cancelled)
| Date: | 2022/3/12 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Activity Room 1) |
| Description: | Do you ever use the same single key to open all your doors, your drawers, or even your safe? Do you ever stick your key beside the lock for easy access? You certainly don't, but in the cyber world, you're probably doing this already. It is everyone's own responsibility to use passwords correctly in order to protect their digital assets. |
