Exhibition: Visualizing the Voices of Migrant Women Workers

Organizer: Hong Kong University, Department of Sociology
When: 11 February- 5 March 2017

This exhibition features stories of journeys, work abroad and letters home as visualized by migrant women including migrant sex workers, domestic workers, marriage migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, women who have been trafficked, and informal workers. These participatory media projects with women in The Netherlands, India, Nepal, Taiwan, Indonesia and Hong Kong are based on Dr. Vivian Wenli Lin’s research project for Voices of Women (VOW) Media, Visualizing Our Voices: Self-made Audiovisual Media by Women from Social, Economic and Cultural Margins in the Era of Global Migration.

This collaboration with Dr. Vivian Wenli Lin (Voices of Women Media) and Dr. Julie Ham (Department of Sociology, HKU) is supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange Fund granted by the University Grants Committee.

Opening hours

Open Tuesdays – Sundays, between 10:00 am – 5:45 pm

Venue: MC3 @ 702 Creative Space, 7/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Launch and panel event

A special launch event will take place on 10 February 2017, 6-9pm, with a panel talk starting at 7pm featuring the following panellists:

• Lin Chew, Executive Director, Institute for Women’s Empowerment

• Pooja Pant, Co-Director, Voices of Women Media – Nepal

• Eni Lestari, Chairperson, International Migrants Alliance

• Freya Chou, Curator of Education and Public Programmes, Para Site

• Dr. Ju-chen Chen, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

https://sociology.hku.hk/events/exhibition-visualizing-voices-migrant-women-workers/

Bucharest 1_jazz and manea

There are very different ways to travel in a city. One of these means could be through sounds, noises, music. The sound of manea and jazz makes me think at Bucharest.

'Cristina' is a song interpreted by the jazz singer Maria Raducanu. This is an exceptional jazz piece of music that originaly was a manea interpreted by Azur.
I have also found a version of the song that sounds more like an original manea. Please listen to the difference manea.
The lirics (in Romanian) are something like this:
'When I met you, Cristina, you had a painfull beautifull hair and an apple flower was on your hair.
When the night comes over Bucharest/ I look at the girls and see that you are not there.
When we got separated, Cristina, you had a painfull beautifull hair and an apple flower fell down from your hair.'
For those intereted in what a manea is, please go and search. Briefly, it is a kind of music with oriental touch that can be heard in most Balkan countries, bearing different names: from turbo-folk to others...
When I hear this song I am thinking at the neighborhood that starts at back of Lizeanu junction, after one passes the barrier of the blocks of flats from Obor market. It is a very green and poor area, with small houses and improvised colours and textures.  The sound of manea and jazz makes me think at Bucharest,  summer, sunset, jazz and manea and last but not least, the fragility of an apple flower.

I have also received this version of the song, if you fancy rock manea. I did! Robin and the Backstabbers.  Multumesc