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What began as a student class boycott took on a greater force on September 26th when student leader Joshua Wong was arrested after protesters climbed fences to enter the so-called “Civic Square”, a former area for protest the government had since fence...

Hong Kong can be a tough environment for any artist, but performing artists in particular tend to need money to get their vision on stage. The government does provide some funds, but it doesn’t always come without strings attached. And many groups feel...

We’re beginning our show this week with two musicians audiences will have seen in our studio before: the brothers Roger and Henry Chung. As a duo, they’ve previously been known for the Christianity-inspired music, but with their new CD "Edge, they’ve d...

Mei Ho House is a part of Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong’s first public housing estate. The estate itself was constructed, with financial help from the United Nations, after a devastating Christmas Day fire that had swept through squatter huts on the s...

During the 20th century Paris, was considered one of the world’s leading artistic centres. And among those who flocked there from all over the world, were many of the greatest Chinese artists of the past 100 years, as the exhibition Paris - Chinese Pai...

Para/Site’s “Ten Million Rooms of Yearning” opened in five different venues in may. Many of the events involved are now over, but the exhibition at Para/Site itself continues until 10th August, examining the connections between desire and the social an...

Local post-rock band tfvsjs have been wowing local indie music fans for some time. They’ve even appeared on one of our 藝坊星期天 and The Works concerts. Now, a couple of the members have started a new venture: a restaurant and art space. But creativity sti...

Currently on show at the Asia Society is the first major solo exhibition in Hong Kong of artist Xu Bing. “It begins with Metamorphosis”. The exhibition includes works both old and new, and illustrates Xu's long proecupation with idea of transformation,...

Running until July 8 in Oil Street Art Space is an exhibition called "Reflection" in which three groups of artists, one from Argentina and two from Hong Kong, use the ideas of reflection to meditate upon Hong Kong’s changing cityscape.

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This week The Works is looking at the 25th anniversary of an event many of us would rather not have to commemorate: the violent military crackdown on students and workers protesting in Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989. Events like these invariably si...