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Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2013. The Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF), launched in 1973, is a major international arts festival committed to enriching the cultural life of the city by presenting leading local and international artists in all genres of the performing arts as well as a diverse range of "PLUS" and educational events in February and March each year.
Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival, commonly abbreviated to " Clockenflap ", is an annual music and arts festival held in Hong Kong. It incorporates international, regional and local live music, film, art installations, street, and kids' area. 60,000 people attended the 2015 event, which was widely considered HK's marquee music event of the year.
Hong Kong People's Fringe Festival (Chinese: 香港藝穗民化節) is a month-long open-access multi-arts festival held annually in Hong Kong. Initiated by the arts community in 2012, proposed by Hong Kong People's Fringe Association, the first festival showcased more than 50 art groups, 72 events and 42 alternative venues [1] all over Hong Kong.
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival began as an annual video art festival for the Hong Kong-based non-profit organisation Videotage in 1996. As new technologies became more accessible and were used in new forms of art production, the festival expanded to include a wider range of new media art. It was the first art festival in Hong ...
Freespace Fest is an outdoor arts festival which has been held in Hong Kong since 2012. It aims at exchanging different culture and promoting creative arts. Hong Kong is an International Finance Centre and a profits-oriented city, people are seldom aware of the importance of arts and culture. Freespace Fest provides a platform where artists can ...
The Theatre Block was opened by the Duchess of Kent on 3 February 1986, the same day the inaugural opera season began as part of the 1986 Hong Kong Arts Festival. [7] The 1981 model produced for the architectural competition is now held by the M+ museum.
The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Asia, with links to separate lists by country and region where applicable.This list includes festivals of diverse types, including regional festivals, commerce festivals, film festivals, folk festivals, carnivals, recurring festivals on holidays, and music festivals. [1]
In 1993 Lindsey McAlister founded the Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival for people aged 5–25 to engage in multidisciplinary arts, regardless of their cultural background, language or ability. Her intention was that she “didn’t want anybody to have to pay for anything”, [ 2 ] so needed to find external funding to cover all expenses.