The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, it’s presenting the exhibition “One to Ten”, featuring ten former students, to highlight the achievements of its alumni in the design industry. Visitors will be guided through a range of design disciplines, including lighting design, product design, industrial design, architectural design, communication design, design management, automotive design, Chinese culture-inspired design and brand identity design. The exhibition will incorporate physical and digital elements such as text, images and sounds, as well as interactive and virtual reality components. Together, these elements will illuminate the design concepts and processes of each alumnus, highlighting the creativity, innovation and impact of PolyU design school alumni.

The exhibition “Green Snake: women-centred ecologies”, focuses on art by women as its name suggests. It draws on the potency and symbolism of the snake in the myths, stories and women-oriented narratives of different cultures.

Last year, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts organised six free concerts of the composer’s works for solo and two pianos. This year, the Academy is presenting more piano pieces, this time in a festival called ‘Prokofiev Meets the Great Romantics’. The Academy’s Head of Keyboard Studies Gabriel Kwok tells us about it.