The 120th Meeting of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
| Date: | 13 September 2024 (Friday) |
| Time: | 2:30pm |
| Venue: | Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Agenda (Open Session)
- Chief Executive Officer’s Report
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TechBox 2022 –2023: A Journey across Interdisciplinary Experimental Collaborative Learning
TechBox is an experimental platform jointly established by WestK’s Performing Arts Division and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Launched in 2021, the platform brings together media artists, theatre designers, as well as academy faculty and students to focus on research, exploration and experimentation.
It aims to provide maximum creative freedom to explore the integration of materials, senses, scenography, spatial arrangements and conceptual ideas in theatre aesthetics.
TechBox 2023: The Travellers and the Listeners is the platform's first full-scale production. Departing from the traditional director or scriptwriter-led creative process, the creative team devised this performance within a technological context, developing a unique, cross-disciplinary creation model.
Led by principal artist Samson Young, the Techbox team* combined artificial intelligence systems with live, impromptu sound and visual interactions in a 2022 work-in-progress presentation. In 2023, inspired by Walter de la Mare's poem The Listeners, Young’s music composition and videos creations’ music composition and videos creations guided the design team in creating the theatrical elements — the set, lighting, sound, and projections allow further space and these were then integrated with musicians and performers to complete the production.
This video traces the artists' creative journey over the past year, including workshops and the various stages in the production of The Travellers and the Listeners.
*Team members include teachers, students and alumni from the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Theatre team, Technical and Production team from Performing Arts Division of West Kowloon
Principal Artist
Samson Young
Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young works in sound, performance, video and installation. Young studied music, philosophy and gender studies, and graduated with a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013.
He represented Hong Kong at the 2017 Venice Biennale, and was the recipient of the BMW Art Journey Award, a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Sound Art and Digital Music, and the inaugural Sigg Prize (2019).
Young’s work has been exhibited at major international venues including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Recent solo projects have been held at the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Manchester International Festival; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Jameel Art Centre, Dubai.
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The 119th Meeting of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
| Date: | 20 June 2024 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 2:30pm |
| Venue: | Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Agenda (Open Session)
- Chief Executive Officer’s Report
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The 118th Meeting of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
| Date: | 14 March 2024 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 2:30pm |
| Venue: | Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Agenda (Open Session)
- Chief Executive Officer’s Report
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Freespace Jazz Fest 2023 Highlight Video
Freespace Jazz Fest returned for its fifth edition in October 2023 and wrote a memorable chapter filled with unforgettable musical moments. We were grateful that all those participating in the music festival gave their unwavering support. Bad weather or not, our audience came to the West Kowloon Cultural District whilst typhoon no. 3 was hoisted, and musicians gave their all to every performance.
Relive the magical moment in this highlight video and stay tuned for the next Freespace Jazz Fest. Enjoy!
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The 117th Meeting of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
| Date: | 18 January 2024 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 2:30pm |
| Venue: | Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Agenda (Open Session)
- Chief Executive Officer’s Report
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Bright Day – Dreaming Together
The experimental participatory experience Bright Day – staged in November and December 2022 – invited the audience to be central participants in a co-created waking dream.
Over a period of a week, cross-disciplinary Hong Kong artists Chan Kwun-fee, Fiona Lee and AK Kan collaborated with the audience on a two-part exploratory journey that delved into the city’s collective unconscious.
The first part of the journey was conducted individually by the audience at home. The second part – Dreaming Together – involved a group experience at Freespace. Part dream, part waking reality, Dreaming Together took place within a constructed environment of soundscapes and imagery. This video offers a condensed look at this immersive communal journey.
Bright Day is the second production in the West Kowloon Future of Performance series.
Read more about Bright Day here.
Co-creator
Chan Kwun-fee
Hong Kong-born Chan Kwun-fee graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and has a background in multimedia and critical theories training. Currently a theatre creator, director and traveller, she is also the artistic director of Littlebreath Creative Workshop. Chan’s work explores contemporary theatre and transdisciplinary performance, taking the body as subject and medium for creating space and experience. Recent projects include Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s Project Seeing (2020), Only When You Sleep, It Works (2019), Kassandra or the End of the World of Representations (2018) and Present Absentee (2014). Her curatorial projects include Our Land, Our Sea (2020), Where is Our Sea? A Rhapsody of an Isle (2018) and Heptahedron (2015).
Co-creator
Fiona Lee
Hong Kong-born artist Fiona Lee creates work derived from the intersection between installation and performance, and inspired by the exploration of new possibilities. Her recent research into naturopathic therapy and the principles of healing art has inspired her to create by being aware of the power of the body and mind to heal disease. Lee’s installations have featured at a number of international events, including Fishpond Canteen Sustainable Art Festival, Playfreely Festival (Singapore, 2019), ART CAMP TANGO 2017 (Japan), Jockey Club ifva Carnival Everywhere – ifva Carnival 2016 (Hong Kong), Around Sound Art Festival 2014 (Kyoto, Japan), Transi(en)t Manila Project Glocal 2014 (Philippines). She has also performed at Intersection In MidAir (Hong Kong, 2019), Asian Meeting Festival 2016 (Japan), HK Street Music Experimental Series, and Kill the Silence music festival (Hong Kong).
Co-creator
AK Kan
Freelance sound designer, artist and field recordist AK Kan graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Entertainment Arts (major Sound System Design). He is currently curating the sound recording project AK IN KK – Nature Field Recording HK. Recent projects include: Jockey Club ifva Everywhere New Work Series Birds Sing Louder in the City, Found Without Seeing (touring performance),Yin Yu Chun Fai (dance performance); Little Smudges Theatre The Beauty of Dot; Fringe Club immersive theatre projects Lingering in Time and Stream of Consciousness; HKAPA Academy Festival 2017: School of Dance Spring Performance and Ocean Park Halloween Fest (2014–2017). He also designed the sound for Dialogue in the Dark Dialogue Experience (2019) and A Thousand Plateaus (Freespace, 2021).
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The 116th Meeting of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
| Date: | 23 November 2023 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 2:30pm |
| Venue: | Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Agenda (Open Session)
- Chief Executive Officer’s Report
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The 115th Meeting of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
| Date: | 10 October 2023 (Tuesday) |
| Time: | 2:30pm |
| Venue: | Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Agenda (Open Session)
- Chief Executive Officer’s Report
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Freespace Jazz Fest 2022 Highlight Video
Between 26 and 30 October, Freespace Jazz Fest 2022 attracted a record-breaking 20,000+ visitors, with five days of non-stop great sounds across five stages at Freespace, the Art Park and Hong Kong’s new outdoor concert venue Wonderland. The festival also included free film screenings, an arts and crafts market on the Great Lawn, plus a variety of fun activities for parents and kids.
Our highlight video offers a brief look back on this exciting multi-day festival and a taster of what’s to come at future editions of Freespace Jazz Fest. Enjoy!
Read more about Freespace Jazz Fest 2022 here.
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