“Give more love and care, so we can grow together” – Onnie Chan (Drama Educator)

Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.

Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production

“I wish to help each other stay strong” – Chloe Wong (Dance Artist)

Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.

Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production

“Think about the difficulties you overcame, be proud of yourself” – Hannah Tam (Violinist)

Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.

Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production

“No matter how horrible the situation is, you must fight until the very end” – Kenny Leung (Dance Artist)

Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.

Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production

“Don’t ever stop, and cherish every opportunity” – Joyce Cheung (Pianist, Composer, Arranger)

Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.

Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production

“Remember these experiences, they will make us stronger” – SukiRabbit (Dance Artist)

Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.

Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production

Freespace Jazz Fest 2020

Angelita Li teams up with the award-winning Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra in a tribute to the life and legacy of US jazz legend Billie Holiday. Combining performances of classic Holiday songs like Lady Sings the Blues and Strange Fruit with stories from her life, the event traces the heart-wrenching journey of an iconic artist known for her powerful, influential style.

Click here to find out more about Freespace Jazz Fest 2020.

The Time Lapse Video

As an extension of the Cypher dance and movement series in 2020, Freespace commissioned artist and graphic designer Calvin Ho @AtomicAttack to create the first mural on our exterior wall as West Kowloon’s latest check-in spot. The mural is a celebration of movement, music, and creatures of all kinds coming together.

From 9 to 29 November 2020, Ho and his team performed the painting daily. Visitors were welcome to drop by to see the artist at work. Time-lapse videos of the process were uploaded weekly to record and reveal the exciting transformation of the wall.

West Kowloon Cultural District Website 
 

Right now, the theatre industry faces an uncertain future.

Since the outbreak of the global pandemic at the beginning of 2020, closures, cancellations, travel bans and lockdowns have had a major impact on theatres, actors and industry workers around the world.

This June, Edward Lam Dance Theatre and Freespace invited 30 Hong Kong-based actors to place themselves inside an empty theatre and reflect on their relationship with the audience, and the meaning of theatre, both as a space and as an art form, in the absence of audience and performers.

There were no rehearsals. Standing alone in Freespace’s black box theatre, facing an empty auditorium, each artist produced intuitive, heartfelt, short solo videos responding to the space, and exploring the nature of theatre when live performance is impossible.