The Works

Local musician, Olivier Cong was in our studio last week telling us about his performance in the ongoing Freespace festival in and around Taikoo Place. But the festival includes more than music. The new Artistree, is featuring a series of programmes fo...

From films like “Metropolis”, “Nosferatu” and “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari” to the movies of Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, and more, German cinema has not only made a name for itself in the international movie s...

Last week Hong Kong was one of the few key cities that had the chance to see “Salvator Mundi” a rare painting by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Just one of no more than 20 surviving paintings by da Vinci, it’s considered one of the art world...

Hello and welcome to the new season of The Works. Behind us on this first show you can see the iconic bus, “Priscilla”, the centrepiece of the movie and now the stage show “Priscilla Queen of the Desert”. That should give you some clue that we’re devot...

Augustine Mok Chiu-yu has been known for his social activism, and later his theatre work, since the late 1960s. In the 1970s he co-founded the influential anti-establishment “70s Biweekly” magazine. He’s long been involved in performance arts and even ...

Even if you don’t recognise the name John Rutter, you’ve likely heard some of his modern carols or church music. He was recently in Hong Kong for a series of master classes and a performance. We went to talk to him.

Last week’s Asia Tuba Euphonium Fe...

Since the handover, the annual July 1st march has become synonymous with the pursuit of greater democracy and the protection of civil rights and living standards in Hong Kong. 2003 had the greatest turnout, when organisers say some 500,000 people took ...

Last week, we showed you how different music genres have reflected social and political aspects of Hong Kong over the past two decades. This week, in the second of our specials on the 20th anniversary of the Handover, we look at Hong Kong’s changes ov...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, and maybe even if you have, you’re probably well aware that this Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR. To mark the occasion, President Xi Jinping is visiting Hong Kong for...

From Boris Karloff as the ancient Egyptian prince Imhotep, to Hammer’s Christopher Lee, to the more recent CGI blockbuster starring Tom Cruise, Egyptian mummies have certainly long fascinated filmmakers. And it’s not just the movies. The popularity of ...