HKSS Cultural Night 2007-2008
Author:HK Bruins Date:2008-05-10 23:10
UCLA Hong Kong Student Society (HKSS) is thrilled to invite you to Hong Kong Culture Night 2008!
HKSS consists of 300+ passionate Hong Kong students who strive to advocate cultural and political awareness throughout the UCLA campus. Acknowledging the need of presenting Hong Kong culture in an entertaining and inspiring way, we feel compelled to launch our second annual Hong Kong Culture Night (HKCN).
HKCN will be our organization’s largest programmed event of the year. The event will feature a thought- provoking drama, music performances, and dances to demonstrate our generation’s talents, perspectives, and passion towards the community. It is our desire to immerse our audience in every facet of the dynamic Hong Kong culture.
For the HKCN, we are producing a drama production involving over 100 dedicated members from the administration to the production levels. Every aspect of the show, from the script, the props, stage/light/audio design to the performances, is completely student-run. Since early January, our performers have begun practicing to ensure the perfection of the evening of May 16th.
This year we are trying to bring back HKCN to our fellow students and friends of UCLA. The path is rough, yet our passion is strong. Our wish to bring HKSS’s vision to the community would only be attained with everyones' support. This show will surely live beyond its one night and recreate a legacy for our future generations to follow.
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“Love ain’t a game”
A group of young people come together and produce a play named “No Games Please”. Each of them, despite similar background, has a particular reason or purpose for joining this play. Robert, the director of this play, hopes to produce something metaphysical and critical of materialistic social phenomena after breaking up with his girlfriend Lulu. The producer Samuel is flirtatious, and he is obsessed with stock investment for easy money. Paula joined the play because she doesn’t have anything particularly important in her life, and that she hopes doing a play can kill some time. Alex and James, however, become the actors because they feel like this is the time for them to get to know some girls and extend their own social circle. Gigi and Cici, without much pulses in their life, wish to substantiate their boring routine by becoming the actresses.
Ambitiously and naturally, they come together to unveil the very mystic page of sophistication, and look forward to finding and understanding what true love is. Alex demonstrates his hat-tricks to impress Gigi; However, Gigi only cares for Robert. Not until the reappearance of Robert’s ex-girlfriend did he think about his love life seriously.
Romantic dramas colorize the play colossally. Courtships happen between boys and girls, but this is nothing as pure as true love in fairy tales. Romantic love has now become a game of deception and manipulation, where one side does not give up until an overwhelming triumph.Amen to Darwinism, only the fittest will survive; only the dominator deserves a ripen fruit. Therefore, to be able to love means to be able to win the love. Artifice becomes a necessary armor for a love-gamer to equip. “Love ain’t a game” is just a moribund justification of the weak for their failure.
TICKETS INFOMATION:
TICKETS ARE FREE AT CENTRAL TICKET OFFICE (CTO) STARTING ON MONDAY 5/12/2008.
GUEST CAN ENTER STARTING FROM 6:30PM
MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON TIME SO THAT YOU WONT MISS THE AMAZING PERFORMANCE BY OUR DANCE TEAM =)
Time and Place
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Northwest Auditorium @ UCLA (350 De Neve Drive )
Contact Info
Phone: 3109754244
Email: uclahksscn@gmail.com
PLEASE VISIT THE HKSS EVENT @ FACEBOOK FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION!
2007-2008 U-852 External Singing Contest
Author:HK Bruins Date:2008-04-07 09:58
***Sponsored by Energy Karaoke and recorded by TVB***
This year, UCLA HKSS is co-hosting the annual singing contest with the member schools of the U-852 throughout the state of California! Universities like Cal Poly, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, USC, UCD and UCI are participating in this fab event!
We have the best equipments you can imagine-state of the art visuals, wireless microphone, professional technicians, and of course, top of the class stereo system, all sponsored by the best and most well-known karaoke studio in Socal -- Energy Karaoke.
We are also very excited to have a crew from TVB recording the whole operation of the contest, and it will be broadcasted in the TVB usa channel!
Also, we are honored to invite these guests to be our adjudicators. They include-
The personal in charge of Energy Karaoke
Howard Lau 劉川
The renowned DJ in radio AM 1430
Benson
The professional drummer and performer
Gigi Yam
The Host Extraordinaire of 翡翠e道睇 in TVB
To add color to already exciting the event, we have invited several guest performers:
-Winner of Singing Competition---Coleman Lee
-Winner of Golden Ticket in 星光大道---Ella
-Wedding Party Singer ---Neo
With the strong makeup of contestants and star adjudicators, we of course have prepared some very attractive prizes!
Champion---$300 cash prize and an acrylic plaque award
2nd place---$200 cash prize and an acrylic plaque award
3nd place---$100 cash prize and an acrylic plaque award
最受歡迎獎---an acrylic plaque award & $100 American Express Credit
最佳衣著獎---$100 cash prize
最佳台風獎---$100 cash prize
Spectators you aren't left out! You will get a raffle ticket upon entrance and you will get up to $250 coupon for Amazon!
Pre-sales: $5 (Apr 18th deadline)
At the door: $10
A complimentary glowing stick and programmer of the event come with the ticket purchase. All interested parties should get in touch with your school's representative for pre-sales tickets because they are running out fast!
Contact Person:
UCLA--Glenn Ho
408 636 8355
UCSD--Alton Kwok
626 616 1883
UCSB--Joyce Ma
323 719 7228
UCI--Jeff Tam
626 228 5887
USC--Daryl Chan
310 806 3357
Poly--Kenneth Kwok
626 807 6871
UCB--Anson Wen
510 579 2839
Energy Karaoke
TVB
Ideal Motor Group (IMG)
Amazon Restaurant
UCLA Office of Residential Life
Time and Place
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Time: 6:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Tom Bradley International Hall at UCLA
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA
PLEASE SPREAD THIS EVENT TO YOUR DEAR FRDS TOO!
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RELATED INFO:
location info:
UCLA School of Public Affairs
Parking info:
UCLA Campus Parking Information
Guest performer info:
http://www.myspace.com/luirap
Facebook:
The Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11793076633&ref=mf
The Host: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10055051239
HKSS Executive Board Election (Term 2008-09)
Author:HK Bruins Date:2008-02-23 20:31
Hong Kong Student Society's Executive Cabinet is opened for election for the academic year of 2008-2009. All positions, according to the constitution, is available for application. Positions include:2) Internal Vice President
3) External Vice President
4) Internal Secretary
5) External Secretary
6) Treasurer
7) Event Coordinator
8) Webmaster
9) Editor/Designer
Application Process:
Application Package is available online at www.hkbruins.org. Please download the application form and submit it electronically. Application deadline is the 5th of March, 2008. Please do not leave anything blank or your application will be considered incomplete. Application to more than 1 position is possible, however, you can only resume 1 position in the Executive Cabinet.
Please prepare a 5- 10 min speech to elaborate your platform for each position during the election day. The election day is going to be on Week 9, and exact date will be announced shortly. When two or more hopefuls are applying to the same position, a debate will take place. Details are listed on the application package.
For more information, please contact the current HKSS President and Internal Vice President.
Start Time: Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 6:00pm
End Time: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 1:00pm
Location: TBA
Hong Kong Student Society exco app.doc (123.5 KB ,Downloaded: 46 time(s).)
HKSS Internal 3 on 3 Basketball Competition
Author:HK Bruins Date:2007-12-17 20:41
How can you not play basketball in a university prestiged with 11 NCAA championship? How can you not show your skills and power just like Collison and Love do on the court? Come! play against some of the best players in HKSS! Show us what you've got in the 3 on 3 basketball games!
Registration Deadline: 12th Jan 2008
Open to everyone
Maximum 5 players per team
Entry Fee: 25 dollars per team (with 3 or more HKSS members in the team)
35 dollars per team (with less than 3 HKSS members in the team)
Prize and recognitions:
Champion: a golden championship trophy and $100 cash prize!
1st runner up: $50 cash prize
The winning team will represent UCLA HKSS to participate in the joint-U basketball tournament and play against the winners from UCSB, UCSD, Cal Poly Pomona and potentially other schools in Socal!
* limited energy drinks and bottle water will be provided for free
How do you apply?
You will be able to register at the Hong Kong Student Society Website www.hkbruins.org by filling the application form uploaded. Applications will be uploaded on the 16th Dec 2007.
For now, feel free to look for potential partners to form your team. This tournie is based on a co-ed system where girls and boys will compete with one another equally. However, girls team may ask for comparative advantage upon mutual agreement. (details to be announced later)
For more information, please contact Henry Kwok at 310-717-8787
Please download the information and application pdf's below.
Basketball Competition Information.pdf (101.95 KB ,Downloaded: 37 time(s).)Basketball Competition Application.pdf (100.08 KB ,Downloaded: 26 time(s).)*Event sponsored by Energy Karaoke
HKSS Internal Singing Contest
Author:HK Bruins Date:2007-11-30 21:54
You think you can sing sweeter than Hilary Duff? Cooler than JT and Andy Lau? Well then come and join us at our internal singing contest! Sponsored by Energy Karaoke, we have the best sound equippment you can imagine- wireless microphone, professional technicians, and of course, top of the class stereo system!! On top of watching our future celebrities singing, this year we highlight our star magician Jonny to perform his magic tricks for us! So come support him!
This event has always been one of the most popular event organized by the HKSS, come and check out the Hong Kong Pop culture!
Please download the application on the link below, and send it back to uclahkbruins@gmail.com. Attach 3 KTVs at least in RMVB or MPEG format (preferrably with voice faded and image) along with the application.
The Application Deadline is January 12, 2008.
Application Fees are:
$10 for members.
$20 for non-members (or join our membership to get our membership card).
All application fees will be used for logistical expenses and/or prize expenditures.
Prize:
1st Place - Crystal Plaque/Trophy and Cash Prize
2nd & 3rd Place - Cash Prize
The date of the audition is on January 17th, 2008. The Auditioning Venue is to be announced.
Competition Format will be announced at the beginning of the Winter Quarter.
Name: Internal Singing Contest
Tagline: All are welcome
Host: Hong Kong Student Society (HKSS)
Type: Music/Arts - Performance
Start Time: Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 5:30pm
End Time: Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:00pm
Location: North West Auditorium
If you don't want to participate, come watch!
This event is generously sponsored by the Office of Residential Life and Energy Karaoke.
Application Form Downlad:
Internal Singing Contest Application Form.doc (131.5 KB ,Downloaded: 99 time(s).)
Internal Singing Contest Application Form.pdf (53.01 KB ,Downloaded: 48 time(s).)