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SPOTLIGHT
FEB 2015
UMP
大學廣場
Inter€ultura£ ƒun Backed b¥ Fund$
The two funds – the
Internationalization Project for Promoting Campus Integration
and the
Internationalization
Activity Fund for Student Associations
– have essentially aided CUHK students and student associations. With the
financial support, a variety of activities on or outside campus have been made possible and thus have promoted cultural
exchange among students.
The first round of applications in 2015 is now open until
mid-February. Please turn to P.21 for details.
Internationalization Project
In the first term of 2014-15, the CUHK Black International
Community utilized the funding to roll out a series of cultural
activities allowing face-to-face interactions to promote
mutual understanding and to kindle exchange of views.
A talk co-organized with the African Community of Hong
Kong on African people’s genetic diversity was a nice start,
followed by an aptly named open panel discussion – “Ask
a Black Person”, an occasion where the participants could
pose any questions of interest to the student panelists
of the black diaspora. In a more casual and relaxed
atmosphere, the Black History Dinner was a time for the
participants to discuss related topics with the complement
of culturally relevant food.
Closer to home, the CUHK Modern Dance Society (Danso)
ran the CUHK show of the Joint University Mass Dance
to promote the Hong Kong-style dancing culture and its
vitality. Since one third of the Danso new members are
international and exchange students, the Joint University
Mass Dance – the largest scale dancing event among
the 10 local tertiary institutions – was a prime stage for
students of various backgrounds to join hands to perform.
Here, cultural interaction worked in rhythm with beats and
body movements.
The students of Team Postgraduate promoted cultural
sensitivity through the touch with movies. The team invited
students’ nomination of movies in five given themes, e.g.
love, success, etc. By showing a montage of 100 selected
nominated films at the Movies Awards night, the audience
was not only exposed to the kaleidoscope of movies, but
also felt overwhelmed by the diversity of perspectives
towards even the same theme.
Other than movies, cross-cultural communication can
take place in another form of arts – drama. The Mandarin
Drama Society of CUHK staged
E’ren
, a joint effort of a
multi-cultural crew with students from Hong Kong, mainland
China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan. The show also
attracted an audience of about 300 people from diverse
cultural backgrounds.
Another sponsored project – “So Far So Close” formed by a
bunch of local students acts as an international platform for
local and non-local CUHK students to meet and connect.
Last term, the organizers brought their peers to a local style
barbeque in a country park to discover the natural beauty
of Hong Kong and experience its culture on the taste bud.
Internationalization Activity Fund
for Promoting Campus Integration
for Student Associations
