The Works

According even to government figures, at least 1.34 million people in Hong Kong are living in poverty. Social workers and community organisations say that number is an understatement. Many of those poor are retired, but even among those still working, ...

With a background in Chinese landscape painting and calligraphy, artist and poet Chiang Yomei has gone on to work with a wide variety of media. A devout Buddhist, she creates art that embodies her strong interest in the spiritual, in philosophy, in myt...

A little before Christmas, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam told Hong Kong it was getting a surprise gift as she signed a memorandum of understanding with the Palace Museum in Beijing to construct Hong Kong’s own version … in the West Kowloon Cultural Distri...

We’re welcoming in the new year by introducing works by two young local artists who say they find their inspirations in their everyday life. They are Onion Peterman, the founder and illustrator of an independent publication, “Zine”, and designer Comma ...

This December marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong. On 8th December 1941 Hong Kong time, the same day as they attacked Pearl Harbour, Japanese troops invaded Hong Kong. Local troops, as well as British, Canadian and Indian units, fough...

Large-scale musical and performing art events require large-scale venues, and in Hong Kong they don’t come much bigger than the annual three day Clockenflap music and arts festival. This year’s Clockenflap, now in its ninth year, ran from the 27th to t...

Last Friday, much to the surprise of many, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced he is not going to run for a second term. It’s fair to say that among those who favour more democracy in Hong Kong there was not an inordinate amount of weeping. But ...

RTHK' s The Works focuses on Hong Kong's arts and cultural scene. The Works features news and reviews of visual and performing arts, design, literary and other “ works ” .

Added illumination comes from interviews with leading performers and produc...

Today we’re dedicating the whole show to an area of art that many would consider to be the most central to our culture, values, and beliefs: literature. We’re talking to four writers whose works include an autobiographical account of escape from North ...

Last week, The works paid tribute to Canadian poet and troubadour Leonard Cohen. Unlike Bob Dylan, Cohen rarely wrote directly political songs, although he did turn his vision more frequently to the state of the world in later works. Someone once asked...