India by the Bay returns for its ninth edition from 8-12 November 2024.
The Festival offers HongKongers an insight into Indian culture and history through a diverse and eclectic programme including music, dance, film, food, theatre, yoga, literature and art.
India by the Bay 2024
Date: 8-12 November, 2024
Venue: Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Tickets: Various
James Blunt – The Who We Used To Be Tour
Date: 8pm, 12 December, 2024
Venue: AsiaWorld Expo, Hall 10
Tickets: $1,380 $1,180 $980
KINO/24 – German Film Festival
Date: 10-20 October, 2024
Venue: HKAC, Louis Koo Cinema; HK Film Archive; Elements Premiere; Broadway Cinematheque
Tickets: $95, $85, $70 HKfilm, HKfilmfestival
The evening sky over Victoria Harbour became a canvas as 1,500 drones paid tribute to Chinese painter Xu Beihong recreating his paintings as Galloping Horses in the Sky.
Organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) the cover image is Xu’s most renowned work, “Galloping Horses”. It shows six horses charging forward in unison with unstoppable momentum.
Xu’s Galloping Horse created in 1942, the magnificent stallion embodies boundless power.
Based on Xu’s 1934 work “Vigorous with New Life”, the roaring lion leaps in hope, reflecting HongKongers “Lion Rock Spirit”.
Xu’s “Chinese Redbud”, an illuminated bauhinia blossom signifies Hong Kong’s vibrant and colourful nature.
Galloping Horses in the Sky – National Day Drone Show
Date: 8pm, 28 September, 2024
Venue: Victoria Harbour
Tickets: Free
image: HK Tourism
Anniversary of pro-democracy demonstration takes place in city where protest has been largely criminalised and activists silenced
Today Hong Kong’s streets are quiet. Protest has been largely criminalised, and many of the leaders of the Umbrella movement have been exiled, jailed or otherwise silenced.
Looking back, Wendy* remembers the feeling of that first day of Occupy. She was 25 and believed in Hong Kong’s Basic Law, and its promise to deliver universal suffrage to the people now that the territory had been returned from British to Chinese control. But instead, China’s government announced that in elections people would only be able to choose from a few candidates handpicked by a mostly pro-Beijing committee.
“It seemed that the government wanted to break their promise,” Wendy tells the Guardian from Hong Kong. “So I went out.”…
Read the full article on The Guardian website
HK Cricket Sixes
Date: 1-3 November, 2024
Venue: Kowloon Cricket Club
Tickets: $1,200, $700, $600, $350
51st HK Arts Festival
Date: 27 February – 30 March, 2025
Venue: Various
Tickets: Urbtix
Frites North Point hosted a wine dinner on 25 September: the fine flavours of USDA-certified beef and pork accompanied by 6 delicious wines from Nikola Estates.
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images: copyright bc magazine/Simon Durrant
