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It’s not often that ballet makes the front page of local papers, but last week that’s exactly what happened. The Hong Kong Ballet collaborated with Germany’s Ballett Dortmund to produce a dance version of “The Dream of the Red Chamber”. What happened a...

This week, a very special show, featuring two musicians who both taught themselves to play their instruments and both of whom are now recognised as being among the very best in their field. They are two guitarists whose skills other guitarists wish the...

Icelandic musician Olafur Arnalds began his career as a drummer with heavy metal bands. In 2004 though, his music took a completely different direction, when he was asked to compose some rather softer, more classical sounding, music. Olafur came to Hon...

On Monday 14th October, The Works and 藝坊星期天 organised a free 3 1/2 hour dance and music concert with some of HK's best known Indie musicians and dancers and others at Kwun Tong Promenade.

Today's show, the first of our new series, includes highlights ...

We’re about to take a summer break and come back in October with a brand new series. Before we do though, we’re devoting the whole of this week’s show to our third story on the 55th International Venice Biennale. This time the overall theme of the Bien...

First though, English brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman don’t make art that most people will find exactly beautiful or comforting. They like to examine politics, religion, morality, and man’s inhumanity to man. There’s also a dark humour to much of their...

This weekend The Works set out to film an art exhibition that we thought would be celebrating a balance of urban and country life. What actually happened there was considerably less harmonious. Initiated by the YMCAarts in Education Project and support...

We begin this week's show with the second part of our three part series on this year’s Venice Biennale. Hong Kong-born artist Lee Kit is best known for his works with hand-painted cloth, and for wanting to make us look again at everyday objects and rou...

The Schoeni Gallery was launched by Manfred Schoeni in 1992. For Nicole Schoeni much changed after the murder of her father in Boracay in 2004. She took over the gallery two days after the tragedy, and has been running it for the past nine years. It’s ...

John Waters’ movie “Hairspray”, set in 1960s America, was released in 1988 and made into a Broadway musical in 2002. It was also remade as a movie in 2007. Its main character, Tracy Turnblad, is an overweight teenage girl who wins the chance to take pa...