Competition subsidies and generous prizes await all competing teams!!! 

Calling all actors, playwrights, and backstage pros! The Andrew Parkin Cup (APC) Drama Competition is coming in March 2027 — your chance to shine on stage and behind the scenes.

To prepare you for the journey ahead, our drama experts, Dr. Alice Victoria Harling and Miss Lilli Chung, will conduct two engaging masterclasses. One will focus on staging and acting, while the other will cover the essentials of scriptwriting. Additionally, we will host a hands-on workshop on practical stage technology, including key sound and lighting techniques.

Details:

Masterclasses:
Staging and Acting — 2 Oct 2026
Script Writing — Jan 2027

Workshop:
Practical Stage Tech: Sound and Lighting — Nov 2026

How to join
Form your own team, or register solo and meet collaborators at the masterclasses. Sign up at https://forms.gle/Xg7UM6eXxFW7vZ6u6.
Performers, writers, directors, designers, and tech crew are all welcome.

Key date
Registration deadline: 1 Oct 2026

Questions?
Email: english-dept@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: 3943 7056

Don’t miss this chance to create, learn, and perform. See you at APC 2026!

You are invited to apply for a funded ambassadorship opportunity that promotes climate action.  

MoCC Ambassadors are an integral part of the education and operations the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change (MoCC), and they are future sustainability leaders of society.  Selected students are given effective and engaging training and service-learning opportunities.  For example, they will guide visitors on MoCC tours, and assist in the MoCC’s outreach activities, workshops and climate education projects.

Applications for the 1st-semester cohort of MoCC Ambassadorship 2026/27 are now open. All full-time students of CUHK regardless of academic background are eligible to apply. 

Deadline: 11:59 pm, 23 September 2026 (Wednesday)
Online application and details: https://www.mocc.cuhk.edu.hk/mocc-ambassadorship

You are welcome to contact Mr Jayson Chan on 3943 0817 or by email at jaysonchan@cuhk.edu.hk if you have any questions.

Ian Haywood, Emeritus Professor of English at Roehampton University, London, will be giving a talk on “Frankenstein and the Industrial Revolution: Gothic Replication.”

Click here for more information. 

Date: 9 October 2026 (Friday)
Time: 12:00 pm
Venue: E-Zone, Room 332, Fung King Hey Building

Lunch will be provided. Please register by 6 Oct (Tue). 

All are welcome!