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Thursday, July 26, 1973
LADY MACLEHOSE OPENS ART EXHIBITION
The Seventh Children's Art Exhibition presented by the Urban Council
in the City Museum and Art Gallery was officially opened by Lady MacLehose
this evening.
The exhibition will be open to public viewing as from tomorrow until
September 2 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily, except on Thursday and Sunday
mornings.
On display are a total of 265 pictures and three-dimensional craftworks
of natural sceneries, selected from 6,500 entries submitted by children from
300 schools.
In her opening address, Lady MacLehose commended the Urban Council
for organising the exhibition and said the central theme "Discovering Nature".
was well chosen and timely when the whole world was beginning to see its various
environmental problems.
"Our children here are brought up in the concrete Jungle of the city
among the speed and bustle of traffic, and they may gradually become insensitive
to the beauty of nature," she said.
In choosing the theme, she added, the Urban Council had shown its
concern with Hong Kong's environment.
In his speech, the Chairman of the Urban Council, Mr. A. de O Sales,
said the exhibition had two purposes to emphasise the importance of art
education in Hong Kong, and to attract young people to the City Hall so that
they could learn to accept it as their cultural centre.
/Lady MacLehose
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