A Laugh at the World: James Wong | Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival 2024
date:
2024-09-30 11:12
source:Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Free Admission
Thematic Galleries 1 &2, 1/F, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum
17 July 2024 – 10 February 2025
Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Organised by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum
The "A Laugh at the World: James Wong" exhibition commemorates the 20th anniversary of the passing of genius James Wong. James Wong was a renowned cultural figure in Hong Kong. Since the 1950s, he had been active in a variety of cultural and performing arts media. He excelled in composing lyrics and music, writing columns, making films, creating advertisements and performing on stage. His life coincided with several important stages in the development of Hong Kong after the war, and had a significant impact on the formation of and changes in Hong Kong’s popular culture. This exhibition will select relevant museum collections and loaned items from the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will demonstrate the cultural integration of James Wong's works, how he translated traditional contents into the contemporary pop culture creations.
The exhibition is one of the programmes of the "Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival 2024". The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) presented the first Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival last year to great acclaim. This year, the second edition features "Arts &Action" as its theme, taking audiences on a journey through time to explore the charm of Hong Kong's pop culture. It encompasses both "Arts" (creative works) and "Action" (martial arts), an attempt to show the dynamic inheritance, diffusion, integration and breakthroughs within Hong Kong's pop culture.
Learn more: www.pcf.gov.hk/en
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