The Works

The Works presents the latest art's happening in Hong Kong to our audience.

With just two days to go until 2022, many of us will be including on our new year wish list a fervent wish that Covid-19 and its many variants will please go away … or at least take on a milder form. Over the past two years, the virus has brought devas...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And later in the show it’s going to sound a lot like Christmas too, as singer Sara C and her band join us with some seasonal tunes.

People have been decorating their homes with trees and ornaments in the w...

For those of you who go to Cheung Chau island, did you notice there is an old cinema in the neighbourhood? It was a small neighbourhood cinema built in 1931. The two-storey cinema is now a Grade 3 listed building. Its historical and social significance...

The tie-dyeing technique was popularised by, and became emblematic of, youth and hippie counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. Simple and effective, it has been with us a long time and has long been used by even tribal societies. Tie-dyed materials fro...

Today and in the coming two weeks, we will feature three very different local singer-songwriters on the show to find out what inspires them to write their own music of. Later in this week’s show, I’ll be talking to Honehg Kong raised Cehryl who recentl...

Government figures tell us that Hong Kong generates about 160 to 180 tonnes of yard waste, also known as green or garden waste, daily. Around 100 tonnes of that are generated and collected by government departments in the course of public works and dai...

Located in the west of Hong Kong’s New Territories, Tuen Mun lies between two mountains, Castle Peak and Kau Keng Shan. At one time it was a port and the location of a defence garrison because it was so close to the sea. Its local occupations, includin...

The idea of developing a West Kowloon Cultural District was proposed in former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa’s Policy Address in 1998. In the ensuing more than two decades, the ambition to turn the 40 hectares of land into a cultural hub for Asia has b...

The Hong Kong Open Printshop is currently showing internationally renowned Japanese printmaker Tadayoshi Nakabayashi’s works here for the first time at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre. The 84-year-old’s works are primarily etchings and i...