Key words Search–Monthly Literary Talk 2026 : Enjoy the Moment with Jin Yong
| Date & Time: |
2023/9/10 (Sunday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
Persons with dementia suffer from the loss of cognitive abilities, impacting not only their daily behaviour but also emotions. When their carers feel exhausted to cope with the demands on physical care and emotional support, would there be any alternatives available? To send them to nursing home? What if they refuse to follow suit? What if other family members have strong reservations to do so? Would there be any ways out? |
| Date & Time: |
2025/11/1 (Saturday) 03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
As patients and their families face the final countdown of life, how can they make a medical care decision? How can patients express their thoughts to their families? Regarding informing about the condition or understanding the patient's thoughts, families do not know how, when, or how much to tell the patient. Speakers will share professional advice on the above questions. |
| Date: |
2025/11/2 (Sunday) |
| Time: |
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
Festivals are an integral part of our lives. Starting from life experience, this lecture attempts to explain what the speaker has seen and heard in the process of moving from armchair to the field since 1975, and at the same time discuss issues and thoughts arising from long-term participant observation and cross-regional comparison.
The Jiao in Hong Kong is not only an important religious festival. For different regional communities, this is an important ritual tool for defining the community’s geographical and population boundaries and establishing ethnic identity. However, from the perspective of long-term follow-up observation, the rituals, content, and interpretation of the local communities’ Jiao festival are constantly adjusted due to changes in the macro-environment and micro-ecology. Therefore, the speaker attempts to use this opportunity to reorganize his half a century field experience from the process of observation and thinking, on the one hand, he will reminisce about the nostalgic past, and on the other hand, he will provide the audience with an insight into the long-term dynamic religious festival landscape of the regional communities in Hong Kong. |
| Date & Time: |
2023/8/12 (Saturday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
Traditional Chinese families felt that moving seniors in the family into institutional care is unfilial. Adult children should keep elderly and frail elderly parents at home as far as possible. With improved health care, frail older adults may have to endure prolonged period of high dependency before death. This symposium involves discussion among professionals and family caregivers on the new thoughts on filial piety in the modern world. |
| Date & Time: |
2024/9/8 (Sunday) 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
Children are at all times precious gifts for parents, even if they are the ones with special needs and/or disabilities. Parents have to bear tremendous burdens to take care of them and have been worrying about how long they could sustain to be the carers, especially when their age creeps on. How would the parents face the issues of life and death? |
| Date & Time: |
2023/11/19 (Sunday) 03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
When one's hair turns silvery grey, footsteps become unsteady, memory and hearing fading, with many other signs of advancing years creeping in - would one be still able to live life to the full, cheerfully moving into a new phase of one's life? |
| Date: |
2024/10/27 (Sunday) |
| Time: |
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Ngau Chi Wan Public Library (Extension Activities Room)
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| Description: |
Subject Talk Theme:
There are many types of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). According to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, ICH is manifested in oral traditions and expressions (including language as a vehicle of the ICH); performing arts; social practices, rituals and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and traditional craftsmanship. This subject talk will introduce the ICH items of Hong Kong associated with worship, such as Wong Tai Sin Belief and Customs, Cheung Chau Jiao Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival – the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance. Participants may learn more about the local customs and cultures of worship through these ICH items.
Venue: Ngau Chi Wan Public Library
Period: Oct 2024 |
| Date: |
2025/10/18 (Saturday) |
| Time: |
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F)
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| Description: |
The speakers will explore the stories of old Hong Kong's historical sites with the participants and show how to incorporate these places into travel itineraries, allowing tourists to experience the charm of history. |
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