In May this year, Tai Kwun will join forces with Blindcat Music to present a three-day mini-music festival, inviting a diverse lineup of local independent artists and bands to perform live and share the vibrant spectrum of Hong Kong’s music culture with audiences. Chilled Steps: Sonic Awakening kicks off with two stylistically distinct singer-songwriters: Gwenji […]
Debuting in Hong Kong for the first time and interpreted site specifically for Tai Kwun, internationally celebrated director Tsai Ming-Liang continues his career-spanning collaboration with Golden Horse Award-winning actor Lee Kang-Sheng in The Monk from Tang Dynasty. Previously featuring at international arts festivals around the world, including Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Vienna Art Fair, Taipei Art Fair, and […]
Segueing from the film programme on “Arrivals” in March and April, six Hong Kong films rooted in the theme of “Departures” will be featured in May and June. The visual voyage travels through the Mainland, Africa, Canada, Italy, the United States, to Vietnam, addressing the issues of adjusting to foreign countries and cultural conflicts with […]
Music has consoled our hearts during times of isolation. Now, with the chance to return, there is nothing more powerful than sharing melodies together in the same space. Returning to Tai Kwun Laundry Steps upon popular demand, Chilled Steps will once again turn the heritage space into a jamming stage where some of the best […]
From the Small Screen to the Silver Screen: Classic Hong Kong adaptions From the communal TV dinners of a bygone era to the one-person-one-screen of the streaming era, how has the meaning of "television" changed for you? When Cantonese cinema began declining in the 1970s as television sets became commonplace (and then essential) in homes […]