Mexico Launches 'Septiembre Mexicano', a Month Long Festival Celebration for the City of Hong Kong

Mexico Launches 'Septiembre Mexicano', a Month Long Festival Celebration for the City of Hong Kong

HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong will organize a series of art, culture, music, gastronomic, and trade promotional activities in Hong Kong during the whole month of September to celebrate its 205(th) anniversary of Independence.

Septiembre Mexicano consists of a series of activities organized by the Consulate General of Mexico in coordination with key partners around the city of Hong Kong covering arts, music, film, fashion, business and trade promotion. The Consulate General of Mexico is proud to present the following Calendar of activities open to the public:

2015 Septiembre Mexicano Calendar

FASHION EXHIBITION - Mexican designer Carmen Rion, at the "Renaissance of Fashion" event.

Date: 31 August - 25 September, 2015.
Place: The Fashion Gallery, MN109, Polytechnic University, 11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Hours: Mon to Fri 0900-1230 / 1330-1745
Contact: Tel. +852-2766 6511 / tcyuki@poly.edu.hk
More info: http://www.itc.polyu.edu.hk/en/news/news-1e04fafa4f647950014f6d0942e10002.html

Renowned Mexican designer Carmen Rionwill present her textile designs at the Fashion Gallery, Polytechnic University. Carmen Rion is a fashion researcher and designer recognized for her pioneering role in rescuing traditional textiles of Mexico and integrating them into contemporary fashion. Carmen Rion will offer her extremely authentic Mexican creations at the famous International Festival of Extra Ordinary Textiles 2015 in Hong Kong.

GASTRONOMIC FESTIVAL Featuring Mexican Chef Jose Lazcarro at Shangri-La

Date: 8-30 September 2015.
Venues:
Lobster Bar and Grill; 6/F, Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong, Supreme Court Road, Admiralty +852 2820-8560
Cafe Too: 7/F, Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong, Supreme Court Road, Admiralty; +852 2820-8571
More info: http://www.shangri-la.com/hongkong/islandshangrila/dining/restaurants/cafe-too/
http://www.shangri-la.com/hongkong/islandshangrila/dining/restaurants/lobster-bar-grill/

Enjoy the millenary dishes and 21st century haute cuisine from Mexico in Hong Kong during the whole month of September at Shangri La. Renowned Mexican chef Jose Lazcarro will fly directly from Mexico City to carefully select and prepare some of the most traditional Mexican dishes for the Hong Kong public, including: ceviche, shrimp agua chile, mole poblano, green pipian, and many more. The gastronomic festival will take place at the CafeToo and the Lobster Bar of the Shangri La.

Chef Lazcarro is originally from Puebla, Mexico, is the winner of various gastronomical national and international prizes, and was part of the team of Chef Alain Ducasse in Paris in 2009. After his stay in France, he travelled to the USA to work with Chef Robert McCormick in Aspen, Colorado, and finally decided to go back to Mexico as Executive and Instructor Chef at Restaurant Quinze in the city of Puebla.

ART EXHIBITION "Mexican Big Bang" by artist Roberto Turnbull.

Date: 9 September - 29 November 2015.
Place: Drake Gallery, Hong Kong Museum and Art Gallery, HK University, Hong Kong.
More info: Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk; facebook.com/umag.hku

World renowned Mexican artist Roberto Turnbull will inaugurate his first solo exhibit in East Asia on September 8(th), at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Hong Kong University. The 26 artworks in the "Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull" will introduce the work of the famous abstract painter.

Roberto Turnbull is one of the most relevant contemporary artists in Mexico. His versatility of themes and technique is one of his most remarkable features. He feels comfortable all the same in the realm of painting and sculpting; in the chaos of the flat abstraction, and in the order of the three-dimensional geometry. Turnbull, a sculptor, engraver, drawer and painter, originally from Mexico City, was formed in the renowned "Esmeralda" school of arts, and has exhibited in all of the most famous galleries and museums of Mexico, as well as internationally, including New York.

FILM SCREENING - "Alamar"

Date: 24 September, 2015.
Date: 24 September, 2015. (Thursday)
Time: 7:00 PM.
Place: Global Lounge, Hong Kong University, G/F, Fong Shu Chuen Amenities Centre, HKU.
More info: +852-2511-3305 / jm@mexico.com.hk

To the Sea (2009), is directed, written, produced, filmed, and edited by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio. Gonzalez-Rubio is part of the Mexican New Cinema generation, a group of young Mexican filmmakers creating independent and original internationally recognized for their quality. The film Alamar follows a young man from Italy, Natan Machado Palombini, who joins his father, Jorge Machado, and his grandfather, Nestor Marin, in a fishing village on the coast of Mexico. Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef. This film won more than 20 international prizes and recognitions, including Festivals from Argentina, Peru, Miami, Mexico, Rotterdam, Tolouse, and many others.

FOLKLORIC MEXICAN MUSIC CONCERTS with artist Ernesto Anaya.

At Orange Peel, September 27(th) and 29(th).
At Shangri-La Hotel, Cafe Too, September 28(th) through October 1(st).
Place: Orange Peel is located at 38-44 D'Aguilar St, Central, Hong Kong. www.orangepeelhk.com
Place: Cafe Too, is inside Shangri La Hotel, Level 7, Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central / Tel. +852-2820-8571.

Ernesto Anaya will fly as part of Septiembre MexicanoFestival and offer a very particular, as well as original, folkloric music from Mexico. He is a singer, composer, violinist, guitarist, pianist, and producer, as well as a jaranero or Jarana player. Jarana is a guitar-shaped instrument from the southern region of the state of Veracruz, Mexico.

With a deep understanding of the countryside roots of the Mexican music from the Huasteca region, combining opera techniques in his style, Ernesto Anaya has been one of the greatest musicians of Mexico for more than 30 years. From Mexico City, and with musical studies in the best music schools of Mexico, Ernesto Anaya has worked in hundreds of musical projects with the best musicians in the country, including film, theater, radio and television.

BUSINESS SEMINAR Business Seminar "Think Opportunities, Think Mexico - Manufacturing Potential within the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)".

Date: September 22(nd), 2015.
Time: 8:00 am.
Place: Tin Lung Heen, The Ritz Carlton, level 102, International Commerce Centre.

This business seminar will talk about investment opportunities in Mexico within the NAFTA market, especially in the high technology manufacturing industries, like automotive, electronic, and medical devices sectors. In recent decades Mexico has become a manufacturing and logistical hub, connecting the North American and Latin American markets. With the highest number of Free Trade Agreements in the world, and as part of the Pacific Alliance formed together with Colombia, Chile, and Peru, Mexico is now one of the most attractive emerging markets for Investment and trade in the world. Mexico might play a fundamental role in the "One Belt One Road" initiative in the Americas.

General information: Tel. +852-2511-3305, facebook.com/consulmexhk

SOURCE Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong

Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong

CONTACT: Jose Manuel Gutierrez-Minera, jm@mexico.com.hk, Tel. +852-3944-8366


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