Traipsing the Ping Shan in Hong Kong
If you’re in Hong Kong and looking for something to get you out of your Hong Kong Hotel that isn’t the usual tourist trap, consider following the Ping Shan Heritage Trail. This walk was inaugurated in 1993 and offers visitors a walk through the Ping Shan district, encompassing several monuments and several of the city’s traditional Chinese structures.
Ping Shan is located in the New Territories and the Heritage Trail takes walkers through several districts: Hang Tau Tsuen, Sheung Cheung Wai, and Hang Mei Tsuen. Approximately 1 kilometer in length, the trail has numerous signposts to keep you on track as well as information boards at the monuments and buildings that explain their historical significance. One of the highlights of the Ping Shan is Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda which is the only ancient pagoda still standing in the region. Other unique sites include the walled village of Sheung Cheung Wai, the Tang Ancestral Hall, the Yeung Hau Temple and the Hung Shing Temple. You can even catch students at the Kun Ting Study Hall preparing for the Imperial Civil Service Exam.
All in all, the Ping Shan Heritage Trail is the perfect activity for anyone wanting to get a sense of the city’s history and traditions while enjoying the outdoors and getting some physical exercise at the same time.
09.20.10New Orleans Japan Fest Begins in October
The Japan Club of New Orleans is once again participating with the New Orleans Museum of Art , the Japan Garden Society and the Japan Society of New Orleans, for the annual Japan Fest 2010. Slated for this coming October 9, 2010 (Saturday), the front steps, the adjoining meadow and the galleries of the New Orleans Museum of Art will be featuring performances from local artists, merchandise and food. The event begins at 10am and will end at 4:30pm.
There are many five star New Orleans hotels nearby for visitors from out-of-town. Come enjoy an autumn afternoon with a touch of Japan in the air.
If you can’t make it to the Japan Fest, still make a visit to the museum. Currently, ‘Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century’ is the newest exhibit featuring selections from the George Pepper Native American Archive. The exhibition consists of 73 antique photographs of Native American subjects, including photographs printed from antique glass lantern slides, as well as 84 Native American artifacts including Pueblo and Navajo textiles, jewelry and pottery. All items were collected by George Hubbard Pepper between 1895 and 1905. He was the first anthropologist and archeologist to excavate Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico. The images and objects is only a representative of Pepper’s large archive, which has mostly been unknown and rarely seen by the public. The exhibit runs until October 28, 2010.
09.2.10Wheaton Mahoney in Palm Beach
The spectacular living in Palm Beach is a draw for tourists from all over the world, and it has a very strong pull for anyone who’s had the chance to visit. Some come to enjoy a weekend at the luxury Palm Beach hotels , and some even decide this is where they’d like to live. It also pulls in a lot of artists and creative types, where the standard of living is pretty high, and there’s always inspiration to be found in the nightlife and the landscapes.
It pulled Wheaton Mahoney all the way from the Northeast, where she lives and works as a photographer. Based in Tequesta, her work draws upon common objects to pull out common themes that transcend the work while also locating it quite deftly in a singular place. Whether focusing on a simple image, or drawing out complex patterns of color, the work is affecting in its quiet gaze.
Her self-portrait, Memory , is a woman on the edge of the sea, taken from three angles so she is looking at the past, present, and future. This was from a time when she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, and she was able to work her way through the trauma with her own exceptional capability to see.
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