This project combines juggling performances with contemporary theatre-making concepts, offering a unique artistic experience to communities across Hong Kong. Artists will showcase exciting and high-quality juggling skills, allowing audiences to experience the contemporary appeal of this traditional street art while inspiring creativity and vitality within the community. The project is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html.

This project combines juggling performances with contemporary theatre-making concepts, offering a unique artistic experience to communities across Hong Kong. Artists will showcase exciting and high-quality juggling skills, allowing audiences to experience the contemporary appeal of this traditional street art while inspiring creativity and vitality within the community. The project is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html.

The original family music and inclusive theatre performances "City Show Fa Fa Music Hall" are based on the picture books The Unexpected and Moments Remembered. These performances blend Eastern and Western music to vividly tell the stories of Hong Kong, highlighting the essence of cultural heritage preservation and diverse families. The performance blends musical melodies and dance rhythms, with dancers vividly portraying the essence of the story through sign language and dance. This harmonious interplay of sound and sight allows audiences to deeply experience each moving moment. The project aims to nurture a vibrant arts scene in the urban space, empowering individuals of diverse abilities to unlock their potential and unfold like a blooming flower, resembling a tree of life, radiating vitality and influence.

2019 | Colour | 114′ | DCPDirector: Mika KaurismäkiScreenwriter: Hannu OravistoCinematographer: Jari MutikainenCast: Chu Pak-hong, Anna-Maija TuokkoIn English, Finnish and Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles2019 Audience Prize, Lübeck Nordic Film DaysProfessional chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote Finnish village looking for his friend but to no avail. Having nowhere to stay, Cheng is helped by the café owner Sirkka who offers him accommodation. In return he helps her in the kitchen surprising the locals and tourists with the delights of Chinese cuisine. He uses local ingredients to make delicious perch soup and reindeer bah-kut-teh, satisfying cravings, as well as healing body and soul. Café regulars reciprocate by introducing him to the joy of an authentic Finnish sauna. He finds a peaceful paradise in a foreign land away from the hustle and bustle, recovering from past traumas and rekindling passion. Before the release of My Prince Edward, actor Chu Pak-hong has already showcased his acting talent in the leading role of this foreign language film. Directed by Mika Kaurismäki (the elder brother of acclaimed Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki), with a feel-good fairy-tale ambience, Master Cheng serves a feast of cross-cultural love in scenic Finland through the theme of culinary art. 

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This project combines juggling performances with contemporary theatre-making concepts, offering a unique artistic experience to communities across Hong Kong. Artists will showcase exciting and high-quality juggling skills, allowing audiences to experience the contemporary appeal of this traditional street art while inspiring creativity and vitality within the community. The project is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html.

"Huqin Meets Jazz: A Musical Dialogue" is a music project centred on the traditional Chinese huqin, showcasing its distinctive timbre and rich cultural diversity. The huqin plays a vital role in Chinese regional music, evolving into various unique styles across different regions, including instruments like the erhu and gaohu. This project uses the huqin as a starting point to reimagine Chinese traditional music, popular music, and jazz standards through jazz-inspired arrangements. By blending the traditional with the modern, it explores the possibilities of integrating the huqin with Western musical genres. The project brings together musicians from diverse backgrounds to create a fresh musical language, inviting audiences on an auditory journey that transcends cultures and eras. The project is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/tc/ccpo/index.html.

Light up your senses. Experience music that shines before your eyes.Experience an eye-opening concert which blends original music and cutting-edge technology, featuring Austrian keyboardist-visual programmer Gerald Peter and drummer Aaron Thier. Through real-time reactive visuals that respond instantly to the music’s pulse, every beat and melody is visually amplified, adding a breathtaking visual dimension to music appreciation. Using innovative Seaboard and MIDI, each note not only resonates with sound, but also illuminates the stage, creating a synchronised feast for the senses, and taking you on a musical journey of inner reflection and transformation. With stunning imagery tailored for the grand opening of the EKCC and a fusion of diverse musical styles, this Hong Kong premiere is guaranteed to mesmerise the eyes while soothing the soul!The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services DepartmentThe presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary

Transforming The Corner into a virtual oasis, where nature and technology interwine Passage of Abundance by multi-media artist Desmond Leung and producer Thomas Lo transforms The Corner into a vibrant oasis in the midst of urban chaos. Interact with a vision-based motion detection system that senses your movements, dynamically transforming them into nature-inspired digital murals and interactive art in real-time. Images on LED screens blossom with abstract ink art landscape painting devised by Leung through visual programming, marking the passage of time along with changing daylight and music composed by Yusuke Hatano.Step into this mindful sanctuary and experience nature’s rhythm. This is an interactive invitation to pause, connect and discover abundance in everyday life.

To promote organ music and to nurture local talents, Hong Kong Cultural Centre has been organising the "King of the Instruments" Pipe Organ Education Series every year since 1999 by providing fundamental training on the operation and performance skills of the organ. The students will share their fruitful achievement with the audiences in this finale concert.Principal Instructor:Chiu Siu LingInstructors:Simon Chan, Anne Lam, Shirley Cheng, Philip ChowTutors:Chan Ting-ting, Winnie Yip, Sandy Li, Mandy TsangStudents:Lam Cheuk Wing, Law EmmaChum Chi Yeung, Fan Mun Sum, Yung Long YinChoi Shing Lam, Lau Hau Yu, Suen On YiHo Ming Wai Teresa, Fung Suk Wun, Wong Kar Bo PamelaGuest Performers:Mandy Tsang, Vivian Lau, Adrian Wong

Hong Kong filmmakers and film workers of its golden age formed deep bonds with each other. Kindred spirits often became sworn brothers and sisters as an expression of their friendship and appreciation for each other. Such legendary alliances include ‘The Seven Idles’, a group of elite behind-the-scenes crew in the 1950s; the ‘Eight Peonies’, consisting of celebrated opera performers in the 1960s; and the opera starlets known for playing second female leads erbang huadans, who became the ‘Nine Big Sisters’. In 1965, seven young actresses—who all started out as child actors and were brought together by their shared journey in film—formed a sisterhood known as the famous ‘Seven Princesses’.The Seven Princesses, in order of seniority, were Fung So-bor, Shum Chi-wah, Connie Chan Po-chu, Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Nancy Sit Kar-yin, Wong Oi-ming, and Fung’s younger sibling, Fung Bo-bo. Each a star in her own right, these seven actresses often collaborated onscreen, and have shared an intimate, enduring sisterly bond offscreen for six decades.In commemoration of their 60th anniversary, the Hong Kong Film Archive presents a special programme, ‘Youthful Imprints’, spotlighting the early works of the Seven Princesses, including those made before and after their bond. Fifteen films will be screened across four categories: ‘Commemoration of Sisterhood’, ‘Signature Works’, ‘Youthful Love’, and ‘Shadows of Grace and Intrigue’.Though the seven actresses have appeared in many films in various pairings from a young age, only one film featured all of them together: Seven Princesses. This film, along with its sequel will be screened as part of ‘Commemoration of Sisterhood’. ‘Signature Works’ features one representative film per princess, showcasing defining moments of breakthrough in their careers, such as Connie Chan’s first lead role in a contemporary drama You Do Me Wrong (1966) and Nancy Sit’s debut as leading lady in Bunny Girl (1967). In the late 1960s, as the princesses grew up into young women, they stepped into roles that captured youthful dreams and romantic longing, as befitting their maidenly images. The four films in ‘Youthful Love’ alternate between charming and bittersweet tales of love, highlighting this period in the princesses’ careers. Finally, ‘Shadows of Grace and Intrigue’ captures the princesses’ martial prowess. Connie Chan, Josephine Siao and Shum Chi-wah trained under Peking opera master Fen Ju Hua, and their Northern-style martial arts skills are on full display in the selected action films, where they deliver unforgettable performances as heroines in costumes.The Archive has digitally scanned some selected films, which will be screened for the first time as part of this programme, offering cinephiles enhanced audio-visual quality. Select screenings will also feature post-screening talks with members of the Seven Princesses and film critics.