The Works

By now you must heard the Express Rail construction in West Kowloon needs an additional $19.6 billion funding approval from Legco, costing the project soars to $85.3 billion. The completion of the construction is supposed to be in 2018, if the extra fu...

As we promised last week, later in today’s show we’re bringing you highlights of this year’s Clockenflap festival. We’re also bringing you something to delight cat lovers, with music and art inspired by our feline friends from Japanese artist, Pepe-San...

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 producers, interspe...

We have plenty of thought-provoking topics in this week’s show, all viewed through the lens of art, including environmental issues, war and political conflict in Syria, and “Migrants, people, culture and struggle”, as depicted in a series of mural pain...

In today's show, an original soundscape and rare images of American Indians taken by ethnologist and photographer, Edward S. Curtis, take us to the old Wild West. And from the not so old and Wild West, the instrumental band Balmorhea from Austin, Texas...

The 800-year old Magna Carta or “Great Charter” signed by the highly unpopular King John of England in 1215 as a solution to a political crisis under considerable pressure from a group of rebel Barons. The charter established for the first time the pri...

This week we’ll be devoting the whole of the second half of The Works to Ara Kimbo, a descendent of the Pinuyumayan and Payuan tribes, whose voice has been called “the most beautiful sound in Taiwan”. Ara Kimbo’s visit to Hong Kong is part of the “Taiw...

Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s has been hailed as one of the greatest living composers of our time. He’s also developed a number of connections with Hong Kong, having been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing A...

Fusion is everywhere in the work of contemporary dance choreographer Wayne McGregor whose work has incorporated dancers, musicians, computer generated figures and digital landscapes. Wayne is fascinated by how science can bring new impetus to creativit...

On September 15th, a photo of staff refusing to allow a schoolgirl carrying a guzheng to take the MTR appeared on the internet and in the media. Several days later on September 20th and 24th, two individual cellists were targeted by MTR staff for carry...