{"id":28261,"date":"2022-09-28T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/as\/?p=28261"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:23:18","slug":"stories-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/as\/news-events\/stories-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The first-ever HKMU culture and performing arts show fully showcases students\u2019 talents"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"28261\" class=\"elementor elementor-28261\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b965ecd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b965ecd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a96ff1\" data-id=\"3a96ff1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27529a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27529a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 5.0pt 36.0pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Stories of Love<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">, a unique event organised by A&amp;SS on 18\u00a0September\u00a02022, was the first-ever university-wide culture and performing arts show presented on campus. This marks the beginning of a new tradition for the University.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 1rem 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In a joyful celebration of love, hope and diversity,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Stories of Love\u00a0<\/span><\/em>brought together nearly 30 students from different Schools through theatre (performed in English and in Chinese), as well as music and dance ranging from traditional Chinese style to K-pop.\u00a0 At the end, students showed their affection for the University by singing together their new Student Anthem, \u201cWe Are All HKMU\u201d, with lyrics written by Professor Octavian Saiu and music composed by <\/span>Ms Mallari Joanalene Asuncion (HKMU student) and Mr Hanz David Kong (a student of The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts)<span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Anthem conveys the inspiring message, \u201cIt's me, it's her, it's him, it's you \/ \u00a0And we are all HKMU!\u201d. \u00a0It echoes the symbols \u201cM\u201d and \u201cU\u201d, which represent the connection between the University, its students and society at large.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 1rem 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The show fully showcased the students' talents, as it offered them an invaluable opportunity to express themselves \u2013 individually and together &#8211; through the miracle of live performance.\u00a0 It attracted over 300 spectators for an enjoyable and truly memorable evening.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-98d3b3c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"98d3b3c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b8302ba\" data-id=\"b8302ba\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div 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