Our Fellowship Chairman today was PP Paul and our Sergeant-at-Arms was Rtn Danny. Our Sergeant-at-Arms managed to collect $660 between the raffle and fines.

President Tobias announced that the Sandy Bay Charity Fair on 5th November had raised HK$4,200 for the Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital. Our District will have a Tennis Tournament on 27th Nov and 11th Dec, which are opened to all Rotarians. The Inter-city meeting organized by Area 3 will be held on 5th Dec at Ritz Carlton Hotel. The Club of Quarry Bay will ride the pedal kart on 26-27th Nov to raise fund for Hong Chi Association and welcome our members to join. The Club of Hong Kong Harbour has organized "Dining to help" at Regal Hong Kong Hotel on 29th Nov to raise fund to South Asia earthquake victims.

In addition, we will have St. Stephen Fete on 3rd Dec at St. Stephens College at Stanley and will need help from members. The Christmas Party will be held on 15th Dec at Aberdeen Boat Club and the sign up sheet is ready for members to sign.

Today, we inducted Andrea Gutwirth as our new member. President Tobias inducted Andrea with her proposer PP George and Sergeant-at-Arms Rtn Danny.

Before our speaker started his talk, Rtn Stephane had brought his friend Mr. Francois Gaudeau to introduce The Hong Kong French Film Festival to us, which would premiere from 6 to 20 December 2005. The speaker of today was Dr. Ho Siu Kee and his topic was "Modern Art in its Social Cultural Context". Dr. Ho introduced that Europe had a lot of great changes in the 19th Century, for example, the first world fair, the invention of photography and steam train, which had influences on the artwork. Previously, the artist seldom had gone out, they would rather create the painting at home, but after the 19th century, the outdoors painting and impression painting began. That meant the evolution of society would affect the artwork. Hong Kong government now tries to transform Shek Kip Mei Industrial Building to art center, and creates the West Kowloon Culture Area to promote art. Dr. Ho just hopes the West Kowloon project will not become a property project as Cyberport.