Hong Kong Comes to Chicago 2009 Festival to launch in May
 In May, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York will launch the month-long Hong Kong Comes to Chicago 2009 Festival, in conjunction with Chicago’s celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
The festival celebrates Hong Kong’s creativity, entrepreneurship, and cultural and economic vitality through art, films, exhibitions, concerts and educational symposiums.
The festival will encompass a variety of events, including:
- A film series entitled “Hong Kong Cinema: The Next Generation” featuring movies from Hong Kong’s new generation of film-makers.
- “This is Hong Kong” exhibition that will provide a photographic introduction of present day Hong Kong.
- “Hong Kong at the Fulcrum Point” concert, featuring Chinese Music Virtuosi, the six-member Chinese music ensemble from Hong Kong, along with Chicago’s Fulcrum Point New Music Project. The groups will perform new Chinese music by contemporary Hong Kong and U.S. composers. Two new pieces composed specially for the occasion will premiere at the concert.
- A special dim sum and wine pairing event to showcase Hong Kong as a wine-distribution and gourmet center.
- Gallery talks in conjunction with “The Big World: Recent Art from China” exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Hong Kong Comes to Chicago 2009 is hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York, and supported in part by the Hong Kong Tourism Board and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The month-long celebrations are also in partnership with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations Advisory Council on Asian Affairs, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the Gene Siskel Film Center and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.
For more information about the festival, please visit: [www.hongkongcomestochicago.com].
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