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Comic artist Jeffrey Kwong, "HK Emerging Artists"@Jao Tsung-I gallery & in the studio: Pianist Jerol

2024-08-21

Comic artist Jeffrey Kwong, "HK Emerging Artists"@Jao Tsung-I gallery & in the studio: Pianist Jerol

2024-08-21
The “wuxia” genre of Chinese fiction highlights martial arts and chivalry, recounting the stories and adventures of martial artists in ancient China. This form of historical fantasy has become hugely popular worldwide thanks to comics, television, dramas, films and video games. Hong Kong writer Wong Cho-keung better known by his pen name of, Wong Yee, is famous for his wuxia and science fiction novels. Now some of those novels are being adapted and published in comic form.

The Jao Tsung-I Academy Gallery is currently showing 48 works by six emerging local artists. They are William Ho, Brenda Hui, Cheung Yung-ka, Kenny Ip, Silver Qian and Daisy Dai. The exhibition is organised by the academy, in collaboration with the Sun Museum, to highlight talented young artists and to encourage their ongoing development.

Since returning from the United Kingdom in in 2020, jazz pianist Jerold Chu has established himself not only as a keyboard player but also as a bandleader and producer.
A former student of music composition for film and television, jazz vocal performance, and the history and sociology of music, Chu performs in a variety of musical styles, as well as with his band, Jerold and Friends. This Saturday, the band’s performing as part of the annual music festival of the jazz club Chez Trente.
To tell us more, Jerold’s with us right now.

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