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Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong International Photo Festival & in the studio: pianist Vaness

2020-05-13

Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong International Photo Festival & in the studio: pianist Vaness

2020-05-13
With the development of technologies such ink-jet printing, laser printing, and even 3D printing, the more traditional and handmade printing arts have become harder to find, and even practice. Founded 20 years ago, the Hong Kong Open Printshop is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting artisan printing.

The annual Hong Kong International Photo Festival was started in 2010 by the Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association. Each edition focuses on a different theme. This year, the theme and the title is “Seen & Unseen”. The festival’s running until June despite the coronavirus outbreak, even though exhibitions focusing on photographer Robert Frank and publisher of photographic books Gerhard Steidl have been delayed until next year. The festivals “Photographer Incubator Project” is a mentorship programme to foster emerging photographers. As part of that programme, two exhibitions at Parallel Space in Sham Shui Po, feature works by Alex Chung and Jimi Tsang that highlight Hong Kong’s changes from the colonial era to the recent social unrest.

Anti-pandemic measures may have been relaxed a little in Hong Kong but it’s still not business as usual for many in the art and cultural sector. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department may have reopened the Museum of Art, but its performance venues remain closed. Pianist Vanessa Wong was initially scheduled to give a concert with the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra at the Hong Kong City Hall last month. It’s now postponed to September. She’s here now to tell us more about the show, in which she’ll be playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

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