20210318 Serrini's talk "Compose a Self While You May"-“Recomposing the Self” Speaker Series (1)

Serrini is a Hong Kong-based independent singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2012 with her bedroom-studio album "Why Prey’st Thou Upon the Poet's Heart”. Ever since, Serrini has published five full albums and over 100 songs. Her latest album “Songs of Experience” received "the Best Overseas Album" award in the 10th Golden Indie Music Awards (GIMA) in Taiwan. Recently, she was freshly enlisted as one of the final five candidates for "the most popular female singers" award in the 2020 Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation （叱咤樂壇流行榜頒獎典禮）. Serrini is a music producer, lyricist, poet, and a PhD candidate in the University of Hong Kong. She is also a budding petite curve size model in town.

18 March, 2021 (Thursday), 4-5:30pm
“Compose a Self While You May”
In Cantonese
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The “Creative, Self and Society” Group of HKBU’s Faculty of Arts is pleased to announce an online zoom Speakers’ Series in 2021 for all secondary school and university students in Hong Kong, with the theme of “Recomposing the Self.”

In times of rapid changes both domestically and globally, how can young people foster their creativity and cultivate their critical thinking to navigate the changing environment around them? The more the world is changing, the more we need to consider how to refashion our self in order to think about our relationship with society, to adapt to changes, and to prepare how to contribute to it.

In many ways, around the world today the increasing interests of youth on issues of climate change, impact of social media, social inequality, multiculturalism and diversity, and so on, are an indication of their yearning to “recompose” their sense of identity and selfhood, so that they may reactivate their community connections and become better prepared to meet the challenges of their generation.

Our zoom series aims to use a storytelling approach to stimulate young people to recognize the need (and the art) of flexibly thinking about ourselves and our relation to a society with major social transformations.

We have invited 5 distinctive individuals who, in their own unique ways, learn how to refashion themselves because they recognize that somehow they are different and that they are not satisfied with the common ways of being. Striving with their own sense of creativity, they have each struck a new sense of well-being and self-value, and used their examples to contribute to the public good.

This series is convened by the CSS Group (led by John Erni and Helan Yang), and has been funded by the Fung Hon Chu Foundation.