The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong is honoured to collaborate with the French May Arts Festival on Pablo Picasso: Paintings in Glass — an unprecedented display of works by the world-famous twentieth-century painter. In the mid-1950s, the workshops of Roger Malherbe-Navarre expanded on the light boxes of French […]
In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels co-presents, with French May Arts Festival and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, a three-week residency in Hong Kong lead by choreographer Christian Rizzo. After a first workshop led remotely from Paris in 2022 with dancers from Hong Kong, Christian Rizzo embarks on a three-week […]
In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels co-presents with French May Arts Festival Les Traceurs by Rachid Ouramdane, as part of a Dance Festival in Hong Kong. With Les Traceurs, air artists (flyers, acrobats…) and celestial athletes (highliners, climbers…) are challenged to perform high above the ground on exceptional locations – whether in […]
Since the 1980's Prof. Jeffrey Shaw has been pioneering immersive interactive artworks that incorporate tangible and intangible cultural heritage as their subject matter. This involves developing new interface modalities for interaction such as his famous bicycle in THE LEGIBLE CITY (1989). It also involves developing highly innovative immersive projection environments such as the EVE dome […]
In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels co-presents with French May Arts Festival BSTRD by Katerina Andreou at the Kwai Tsing Theatre as part of a Dance Festival in Hong Kong. BSTRD is an energetic and minimalist solo performance featuring Katerina Andreou and a single vinyl turntable, based on the notions of impurity […]
In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels co-presents with French May Arts Festival BSTRD by Katerina Andreou at the Kwai Tsing Theatre as part of a Dance Festival in Hong Kong. BSTRD is an energetic and minimalist solo performance featuring Katerina Andreou and a single vinyl turntable, based on the notions of impurity […]
Under the theme 'Bubble Up', the 9th edition Traditional Gourmet Market is a key feature of the Festival’s wider French GourMay celebrations, highlighting French sparkling wines and their worldwide association with festive occasions. 19 and 18 pop-up stores are set up at Central Market and NINA MALL 1 in Tsuen Wan respectively, offering a wide […]
On Versailles Collections : How were the collections of the Château de Versailles built up ? In the midst of the Revolution, on the morning of 6th October 1789, the royal family was forced to leave Versailles and never to return. After the fall of the Monarchy in 1792, the whole content of the palace […]
Piano Virtuosi in Paris is a concert showcasing a collection of great French piano music from the late 19th century to the early 20th century before the First World War. These compositions include works by Franck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, d'Indy, Debussy, Satie, Ravel, and Boulanger. The running time of the performance is approximately 2 hours including […]
Co-presented by French May Arts Festival and Musica Viva, produced by Prof. Lo Kingman, this programme features budding local singers performing a selection of songs while accompanied by a chamber ensemble and two contemporary dancers. Such a combination provides the audience with a refreshing audiovisual experience. The audience in Hong Kong will get to know […]
A single mother, Hafsa swims everyday for two hours to numb her breakup and feel alive again. One evening, at the pool, she meets Yaya, an undocumented teenager. In the midst of fantastic creatures, Hafsa and Yaya weave a relationship that has no name yet, a beautiful stranger who radically transforms Hafsa. A fifty-minute monologue, […]
On 10 June at Concert Hall of Hong Kong City Hall, composer Olivier Cong will collaborate with dance artists Ong Yong Lock and Zelia ZZ Tan to create a dialogue of contemporary music and dance inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s short story Clair de Lune. Karena Lam, decade-long ambassador of the French May Arts Festival, […]