Arts & Culture

Rona Ramon attends the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival

This year’s opening film to kick start the 8 day film festival was An Article of Hope, held at the City Hall Theatre. 12 November.

The film tells the story of Israel’s first astronaut, Colonal Ilan Ramon and six other astronauts who perished on 1 February, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry. Ramon felt a deep sense of obligation to Holocuast memory as a son of an Auchwitz survivor and to the Jewish people at large. The film parallels the fateful journey and his life story.

Special appearances for the evening’s event included Rona Ramon the wife of the late Ilan Ramon and film director, Daniel Cohen. A complimentary kosher dessert buffet was held at a nearby café after the film was shown.

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Taiwan exhibits humanitarianism project organised by SACHS

A recent exhibition of photographs in southern Taiwan, documents an international humanitarian project in Israel. The exhibition entitled, Love and Care, Small Hands and Big Hearts, was on display at the Kaohsiung Medical University and showcased the hospital-based Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) project at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel.

The project was founded in 1995 with the idea of continuing the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world, to save children with heart problems, regardless of nationality, age, colour or gender. It has since treated some 2,700 children, 40% of whom were from Africa, 49% from Palestine Territories, Jordan, Iraq and Morocco, 7% from Asia and 4% from East Europe and America.

Some of the photographs in the exhibition depicted the internal struggles of Israeli medical professionals who treat sick children from neighbouring territories that are engaged in conflict with Israel.

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Gil Shaham to perform in Hong Kong

Renowned violinist Gil Shaham will be in Hong Kong in January for two separate performances in conjunction with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

The first event, Shaham, will be part of the Great Performers Homeland Music on 4-5 January 2012 with pianist Andrew Litton, Music Director of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert entitled Shaham plays Barber is the Hong Kong stop of his longterm exploration of the “Violin Concertos of the 1930s”.

On 8 January at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall he will perform Purely Bach a musical programme.

Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time. Combining flawless technique with inimitable warmth and a generosity of spirit, he is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors and for recital and ensemble appearances on the great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.

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