The Works

Merry Christmas!

We have some goodies for everyone this festive season. In this week’s show we’re welcoming some friends back to talk about a very special project. The Lincoln Center in New York City is home to eleven performing arts organisations. It...

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

Over the centuries there have been many different artistic schools, styles, and movements in traditional Japanese painting. By the 19th century the art form revealed the influence and synthesis of native Japanese aesthetics and ideas imported from Chin...

It’s the third edition and the final year of the three-year Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival, organised by the Tourism Commission, supported by the Hong Kong Geopark and curated by a cross-disciplinary design team. We featured the festival’s first year in 20...

Tobacco’s been consumed in China, mostly in pipes, since the 16th century. During the Qing dynasty though, possessing or smoking tobacco was punishable by death. But for those who still craved nicotine, snuff, or powdered tobacco, claimed to be a remed...

A few weeks ago, we mentioned on the show that 2024 has been celebrated as the year of Czech music. It’s been celebrated by an array of concerts and events, featuring not only classical music but other musical genres. Later in today’s programme, we’re ...

For more than two decades, the Asia Art Archive has been building, collecting, creating and sharing materials on the recent history of art in Asia. Many of its resources are free for public access. One of its recent projects introduced the archival co...

Japanese Zen monk Kanho Yakushiji is known for taking Zen-inspired music to a worldwide audience. His music videos have earned over 50 million views. He was in Hong Kong for a one-night concert late last month as part of an Asia tour. We went to speak ...

Tang Kwong-san was born in Guangzhou in 1992. His father brought him to live in Hong Kong when he was five years old. Five years later, his mother joined them.

Today that childhood separation from his mother and the experience of uprootedness and disl...

Later on this week’s show, a trip to the Baltic region for a sample of “Polish Impressions”. Taking us on that musical journey is the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra founded in Szczecin, Poland in 2008. But before venturing to Central Europe, we’re heading s...