Free Programmes

[Artist Talk] Art Sleep-Talking 

YEUNG Hok Tak X AU Wah Yan X WONG Chun Hei 

The storyteller’s self-talk, the ritual at night-time becomes a record and practice. What do you usually do before going to bed? What are you thinking at night? Three artists whose main creations are based on the painting will chit-chat and share their ideas about (maybe) dreams and memories, realism and imagination, reality and fiction in their creations.

Date: 13 Nov 2020 (Friday)
Time: 9PM – 10:30PM

Fee: Free of charge
Format: Livestreaming on HKAC Facebook


[Multi-disciplinary] Art X Neuroscience — NeuroKnitting Beethoven: Interactive Concert Installation

Co-presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, the programme “Art X Neuroscience —— NeuroKnitting Beethoven: Interactive Concert Installation” will be featuring Estonian creative duo Varvara & Mar and Hong Kong pianist Linda Yim in co-creating an online & offline interactive arts experience.

Established in 2009, Varvara & Mar first created their kinetic neuroscience installation “Neuro Knitting” in 2013, a composed of an EEG brain activity detection headset, computer graphic and knitting machine. The pianist, Linda will play a Beethoven piece while wearing the EEG headset, and a computer programme visualises brain waves into stunning graphics. The set of impulses also runs a knitting machine, converting Beethoven’s sheet music into a scarf.

A truly audio-visual feast for the audience who will witness the birth of a knitted scarf and enjoy music played by Linda at the same time! Varvara & Mar will also share their creative concept with the audiences through an online artist presentation session.

Date: 14 Nov 2020 (Saturday)

Time: 7PM – 8PM

Fee: Free of charge

Format: Zoom (online) & Live Performance (limited quota)

[Public Art] A Night in North Point

What would happen at night in an old shopping mall? Wandering through the live camera from Gary Wong and urbanist Alfred Ho, we will guide you through an exciting journey in North Point at nighttime. Differ from visiting famous tourist spots, we will probe into the hidden gem and experience the truly authentic side of the community.

Gary Wong, a devoted fans of Hong Kong movies, likes to find the story behind the scene. He published “Film Pilgrimage”, seeing the city through the lens of movie sets. Alfred Ho is an architect who is interested in exploring the cityscape of Hong Kong. After graduating from the Department of Architecture in The University of Hong Kong, he went to the Netherlands pursuing the postgraduate degree in architecture.

Date: 14 Nov 2020 (Saturday)

Time: 9PM – 10PM

Fee: Free of charge

Format: Livestreaming on Via North Point Facebook


[Performing Art] House Music Series - The Trip Back Home

Ever have you missed home during your trip, have you ever thought about what makes a place a home? Let’s walk along with singer songwriter Ada Lee and her band together with VJ and illustrator and take the trip back home.

This November, House Music Series would transform a special edition for Art X late night programme. Care-free music is not the only enjoyment offered, but also the audio-visual experience with the collaboration with the live-illustrator. Ideas and words thrown out by online audiences will be expressed through fast-sketching. Co-creation triggered by active audience will shape the visual that is projected to the musician’s canvas of performance, making every music gig unique and intriguing.

Happening at different corners at the Hong Kong Arts Centre once a month, House Music Series is designed to be a series of live gigs distinct with its spontaneity, breaths of freedom and intimate environment that audience could enjoy and interact with musicians.

Date: 15 Nov 2020 (Sunday)

Time: 10PM – 11PM

Format: Livestreaming on YouTube

Charged Programmes

[Intangible Cultural Heritage] Live your dreams: Dreamcatcher Workshop

In some Native American cultures, it is believed that the dreamcatcher is like a spider web, holding the nightmares and negativity in it, and letting go of all positive dreams and thought into our dreams. Learn about the basic Paper Cutting skills including "yin" and "yang" cutting techniques, symmetrical cutting and ‘multiple layer’ cut-Folding Method. Unlike traditional cutting that commonly makes use of red papers, patterns here can be cut with different colour papers.

Colourful paper cutting art-pieces can be produced. Simultaneously, simple tools will also be used to transform the 2-D paper cutting pieces into 3-D forms. By combining different materials and adopting a simple weaving technique, dreamcatcher is able to create a great variety of geometric patterns, with paper cut-outs included and embedded.

Date: 13 Nov 2020 (Friday)

Time: 6PM – 7:30PM

Fee: HKD 180

Format: Zoom (limited quota)

[Moving Images] Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window (Online Screening)

With online after-screening talk with the director

Nominated for Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award, South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival 2019

Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Dallas International Film Festival 2019

Copenhagen International Documentary Festival 2019

USA, Hong Kong | 2019 | 68 mins | In English and Cantonese with English subtitles | DCP | Colour

Trapped in the fault lines. Record Hong Kong.

A directorial debut documentary feature by Oscars Best Picture Moonlight producer, Andrew Hevia, Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window is a mysterious and tragicomic documentary of the director himself. To recover from a failed romance back home, Hevia left America to make a film about Art Basel in Hong Kong. On his way, he runs into Hong Kong artists Au Hoi-lam, Chow Chun-fai, Mak Ying-tung, Samson Young, Trevor Young and William Lim amongst others. The film charts his excitedly offbeat journey through this “beautiful, complicated city”, processing and coming to terms with change. It is a subversive and heartfelt exploration of authenticity, alienation and heartbreak, coupled with his curious encounters with Hong Kong artists and their works. Ah! And also that time when he got lost in a shopping mall. Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window was called “the most original and fascinating documentary” of the year by Film Threat and has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine, Art Forum and The New York Times. There will be an online after-screening talk with Andrew Hevia.

About Andrew Hevia

Andrew Hevia is a Cuban American writer, director, producer, cinematographer and Fulbright Research Fellow from Miami, Florida. He studied drawing and painting intensively in high school at New World School of the Arts. He then went on to study film production at the Florida State University Film School and began working professionally after graduation. Hevia holds a Master's Degree in Media Entrepreneurship from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham. He is interested in the intersection of art and community and believes firmly that creative entrepreneurship, like storytelling, is a constructive force in the world.

Date: 14 Nov 2020 (Saturday)

Time: 9PM – 11PM

Fee: HKD 60

Format: Online Screening on Vimeo & Zoom (limited quota)

[Performing Art] Playwright Studio #9

Tailor made for Art X late night programme in November, Playwright Studio #9, will incorporate live streaming along with live polling into the programme, with the objective to enable barrier-free discussion prior and after the play, enhancing the interaction and engagement between audiences and the theatre of the In-the-progress play. Work from 5 playwrights will be showcased in this season.

Audiences will no longer play the role of an outsider, but a character with power to decide the development of the plot. With such interactive elements, an unprecedented collaboration between a Theatre & Film Director along with audiences will be offered and the play will be intriguing this time! Within the 24 hours after the show has premiered, audiences can write an innovative short play (without word limits), winning the opportunity to be awarded by the adjudicators from HKAC and HKAPA as “Panel’s Choice”. The piece of review will be featured on both official Facebook Pages, and the awardees will be rewarded with 4 sessions of HKAC ART Factory workshop experiences!

Art X Special Edition

Date: 15 Nov 2020 (Sunday)

Time: 3PM - 5PM; 8PM - 10PM

Fee: HKD 80 (Online) HKD120 (Live)

Format: Livestreaming and Live Performance (limited quota)

Other Sessions

Date: 13 (1st Session), 17 (5th Session), 18 (6th Session) Nov 2020

Time: 8PM-10PM

Date: 14 Nov 2020 (2nd Session)

Time: 3PM - 5PM

Fee: HKD 50 (Online) HKD80 (Live)

    HKD 120 (Online All Pass) HKD240 (Live All Pass)

Format: Online Broadcast and Live Performance (limited quota)

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