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The winner of the 25th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, who crosses the finish line in under 3 hours for men or under 3 hours 30 minutes for women, will receive a special incentive award of HK$10,000. This is a first in the history of the race. It was added to support local challengers, particularly permanent residents who are competing in the marathon.
A record number of nine artists from Hong Kong have made the shortlist for this year’s Art Prize, the highest representation in the prize’s history. Nearly two-thirds of the shortlist are female artists, also a record in the prize’s history. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in December this year.
Hong Kong is one of the few cities to have multiple finalists in the award, which is given to artists from the Greater China region and their diasporas. The shortlist was selected by a six-person jury panel chaired by M+ director Suhanya Raffel. The panel included international art figures such as Maria Balshaw, director of the Tate museums in London; Gong Yan, director of the Power Station of Art in Shanghai; Mami Kataoka, director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum; Glenn D. Lowry, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and Xu Bing, Chinese artist and the founder of the Sigg Prize.
US lawmakers have nominated five pro-democracy activists from Hong Kong for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, in what the group calls a “historic step”. The US House of Representatives’ Global Scholars for Hong Kong nominated Jimmy Lai, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, Gwyneth Ho and Joshua Wong for their “fervent dedication to protecting freedoms in Hong Kong and campaigning for democracy”. The move came after Beijing stepped up its crackdown on dissent following protests over the 2017 handover of the territory to China.
CUHK professor and historian George B. Endacott has died at the age of 81. He was responsible, virtually single-handedly, for the re-establishment of the Department of History as one of the principal teaching and research units in CUHK’s Faculty of Arts in 1946 and had long been involved in the study of Asian history.
A prestigious award for an orchestral recording has been bestowed upon the Hong Kong Phil by the Music and Recording Critics Association of Hong Kong (MARCHK). The HK Phil was awarded the Grand Prix prize in the Classical Album of the Year category for its complete box-set of Wagner’s Ring cycle, which is available for streaming on Spotify and other platforms worldwide. The HK Phil is grateful to its Hong Kong SAR Government and Principal Patron the Swire Group, as well as to the many music-lovers across Asia who have voted for this award. The HK Phil is committed to bringing the finest music to people around the world through its performances and recordings. The HK Phil is also pleased to receive the inaugural MARCHK Prize from the Music and Recording Critics Association of Asia for its commitment to the promotion and dissemination of classical music.