GAO XINGJIAN Arts Festival

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Free Admission
( Except International Symposium and the performance of “Of Mountains & Seas” )

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The Gao Xingjian Arts Festival is an all-encompassing celebration featuring the theatre, film, novel, poetry and paintings of Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, who will attend the 10-day festival in person. Highlights of the festival include a public lecture entitled “The Finite and the Infinite --- the Aesthetics of Creation” and an exhibition of the Gao Xingjian Special Collection in CUHK Libraries on the 23rd, a three-day international symposium from the 28th and the world premiere of his play, Of Mountains & Seas, on the 30th, which will take place on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. There are also programmes scheduled in town by joint presenters.

World Premiere: Of Mountains and Seas

Date：30 May (Fri) – 01 June 2008 (Sun)
Time：7:45pm
Venue  ：New Asia Concourse, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tickets ：  $280

According to Gao Xingjian, his intention in writing Of Mountains & Seas is to restore the innocence and purity in Chinese mythology. Director Hardy Tsoi thinks that most people are already familiar with the stories in the play, such as “Yi the Archer”, “The War between Yellow Emperor and Chi You” and “Yu the Great”, etc. The purpose of staging the play, thus, is to help the audience to understand Chinese cultural archetypes and their meaning to today’s society. Due to the play’s complexity, Of Mountains & Seas has not been staged before and our production will be a world premiere. A carnival, free to ticket holders to the show, will begin 45 minutes before the performance.