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Recent Newsletter of BHMWA
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We will move back to the Crypt of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the near future. Further details will be available in the near future.
Activities in August
1. Children Summer Programmes between 22/7/2008 and 19/8/2008 (Details can be downloaded here)
Date: 22/7 to 19/8 (Tuesdays)
Time: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Venue: Charing Cross Library
Contents: Chinese Calligraphy, Paper Craft, Outtings, etc...
2. Blackpool Lights Weekend
Date: 29/8 Friday to 31/8 Sunday
Members: £155 / Non-Members: £160
Please ask Mrs. Edith Lau for further detais.
The Association and the Chinese Centre New Logo
The Council of the Association decided that on the completion of St. Martin's Renewal Project and on the eventual return of the Association and the Chinese Centre to its St. Martin's premises, it is highly desirable for the Association and the Chinese Centre to have a new logo. In October 2006, a Bishop Ho Ming Wah Association logo design competition was organized in St. Stephen's Girls' College in Hong Kong. Eva Wong, a form 4E student was the winner of the competition. The Council decided to adopt her entry for use as the new logo.
Eva's concept of the logo was from a picture of her imagination: a Chinese walks down a lonely London street feeling hopeless and desperate in a foreign city and then he looks up and sees a logo which looked like a Chinese character. He rejoices seeing something from his own country.
The letters “H”, “M”, and “W” are incorporated or monogrammed into the Chinese character “Wah” which stands for the word “Chinese”. As the Association and the Chinese Centre were established in memory of Bishop R.O. Hall whose Chinese name was Ho Ming Wah, his initials i.e. HMW stand out clearly in the design of the logo. The use of both the letters of the alphabets and the Chinese character indicates the link between the East and the West. The logo which features a number of crosses indicates that the Association is a Christian organization.
The red colour represents the blood of Jesus Christ at the crucifixion suggesting that the Association and the Centre are ready to help and serve others the way Jesus died for us. In addition, in Chinese culture, the colour red symbolizes good fortune and happiness. White stands for purity. The use of positive and negative spaces in presenting the Chinese character, the English wordings respectively reflects the idea of Yin Yang in Tai Chi which means diversity in cooperation.