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Jazz Signatures: Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet

Jazz Signatures: Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet

Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre Xiqu Centre, 88 Austin Road West, Yau Tsim Mong

The West Kowloon Cultural District is thrilled to launch the “Jazz Signatures” concert series, a brand-new programme featuring leading international jazz stars and noteworthy emerging acts in performance at the Grand Theatre of the Xiqu Centre, the flagship performing arts venue of the West Kowloon Cultural District. Getting the series off the ground is Ambrose Akinmusire, the world-renowned […]

$380 – $580
TechBox 2024: LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project

TechBox 2024: LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project

The Box, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

This July, TechBox returns to Freespace with LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project, a participatory theatre experience that transforms The Box into a human arcade game lab. Blending elements of gameplay and performance, LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project invites the audience to become players in a clash of ideas. Entering this liminal space – at an unspecified mid-way stage of a […]

$380
Freespace Ensemble: Yellow Magic Orchestra Reimagined
Event Series Freespace Ensemble: Yellow Magic Orchestra Reimagined

Freespace Ensemble: Yellow Magic Orchestra Reimagined

The Box, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

When Japanese electropop ensemble Yellow Magic Orchestra – YMO – exploded onto the scene in the 1970s, their bright, ironic, technically masterful music struck a chord with audiences around the world. Mixing synthesisers and drum machines with pop, funk, soul and exotica, their albums reflected a uniquely Japanese experimentation with the technologies of the time. […]

$350
Freespace Ensemble: Yellow Magic Orchestra Reimagined
Event Series Freespace Ensemble: Yellow Magic Orchestra Reimagined

Freespace Ensemble: Yellow Magic Orchestra Reimagined

The Box, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

When Japanese electropop ensemble Yellow Magic Orchestra – YMO – exploded onto the scene in the 1970s, their bright, ironic, technically masterful music struck a chord with audiences around the world. Mixing synthesisers and drum machines with pop, funk, soul and exotica, their albums reflected a uniquely Japanese experimentation with the technologies of the time. […]

$350
Experimental Chuanju Opera - Farewell My Concubine

Experimental Chuanju Opera – Farewell My Concubine

Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Tsim Mong

Farewell My Concubine (New Adaptation), the first experimental Cantonese opera commissioned and produced by the Xiqu Centre, has consistently been the most popular programme of the Black Box Chinese Opera Festival each year. Inspired by its originality and success, the legendary xiqu artist Shen Tiemei – widely regarded as the "Queen of Sichuan Opera " – […]

$280
WestK x Reframe Theatre: Post Office in Hell – The Origin

WestK x Reframe Theatre: Post Office in Hell – The Origin

The Box, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

Post Office in Hell – The Origin is a new collaboration between novelist Westwingmoon and playwright-director Yan Pat-to, that revisits the story that opened with Post Office in Hell (Part 1) in March this year. The new, stand-alone theatre production tells the story of postman Nam Moon Leung – an individual gifted with the ability to travel between […]

$380 – $420
Deepstaria

Company Wayne McGregor: Deepstaria

Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre Xiqu Centre, 88 Austin Road West, Yau Tsim Mong

WestK is proud to present the Asian premiere of Deepstaria, a groundbreaking new work by internationally acclaimed choreographer Wayne McGregor, and performed by Company Wayne McGregor, at the Xiqu Centre’s Grand Theatre on 20 and 21 September 2024. Featuring acoustic imagery and music provided by Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker and music producer LEXX, and enhanced by […]

$320 – $580
Jazz Signatures: Grace Kelly Quartet

Jazz Signatures: Grace Kelly Quartet

Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre Xiqu Centre, 88 Austin Road West, Yau Tsim Mong

Colourful, charismatic and radiating infectious positivity, multi-talented saxophonist, singer, songwriter-composer, band leader and internet sensation Grace Kelly is a bright star in the millennial jazz world. This September she teams up with pianist Anastassiya Petrova, bassist James Dale and drummer Ross Pederson, making her Hong Kong debut at the Xiqu Centre Grand Theatre with an […]

$380 – $480
Tea House Student Matinees: 2024–2025

Tea House Student Matinees: 2024–2025

Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Tsim Mong

The Tea House Student Matinees get a fresh look in academic year 2023–2024 with a new programme that allows students to explore the art of xiqu and traditional Chinese culture in a stimulating, inter-disciplinary way. Through narrated performances, traditional Cantonese music demonstrations, interactive facilitator-led discussion sessions and post-performance workshops, students experience the beauty of xiqu, develop positive […]

$80
Experimental Kunqu Opera - The Dream of the Straw Bridge

Experimental Kunqu Opera – The Dream of the Straw Bridge

Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Tsim Mong

The renowned Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe returns to the Xiqu Centre with an experimental black box production inspired by the classic Chinese love story The Romance of the West Chamber. Blending the elegant lyricism of Kunqu with bold, contemporary staging, the production transforms a dream-based excerpt into a deeper exploration of a familiar tale of love, […]

$280
Book of Mountains and Seas – The Fates of Mountains and Rivers

Book of Mountains and Seas – The Fates of Mountains and Rivers

The Room, Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

This October, WestK and Théâtre de la Feuille present a work-in-progress physical theatre production inspired by the Chinese classic, The Book of Mountains and Seas. Through physical expression and a blend of Eastern and Western performance traditions, the production leads the audience on an imaginative exploration of the origins of the universe and the nature of […]

$280
Black Box Chinese Opera Festival 2024

Black Box Chinese Opera Festival 2024

Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Tsim Mong

WestK Performing Arts Presents: The seventh Black Box Chinese Opera Festival, returns from 3 to 23 October 2024 at Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK), featuring original experimental xiqu productions in a variety of regional genres and styles. In addition to the three acclaimed Xiqu Centre original productions of Farewell My Concubine (New Adaptation), Wenguang Explores the Valley and The Imperial […]

$280