CityU graduate portrays the life of an old Shatin village

A 2008 creative media graduate of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Rainbow Leung Hiu-man (pen name Lee Heung-lan), was selected as one of the eight winners in the Second Young Writers’ Debut Competition co-organised by Sun Hung Kai Properties and Joint Publishing. Rainbow received sponsorship to publish her first picture book – Wo Che Village, which was launched in Hong Kong Book Fair earlier this year.

Recently, Rainbow was invited by Art & Culture Outreach (ACO), a non-profit art organisation, to display part of her original paintings to the public. Titled “Rainbow’s Wo Che Village Original Show”, the exhibition began on 19 September at ACO’s Wanchai headquarters and will continue till 18 October.

Wo Che Village is a work of art integrating paintings and texts that chronicle the people’s lives in Wo Che, a village in Shatin area, over its history of 200 years. As this is the home village where Rainbow was born and brought up, she portrayed in detail various facets of the villagers’ lives, told stories about the dear ones in her family, and related bits of anecdotes about her own growing up there.

Further information of the exhibition is available at the following website: http://aco.hk/blog/index.php.

Media enquiries: Zoey Tsang, Communications and Public Relations Office, CityU (9550 1503 or 3442 9411).