
2023 Festival
Event
Line-up

A Tango with Kaito – a love triangle between kaito, island and humans
Island Studies Network (HK)
Our mini research exhibition shall utilize the socio-economic networks between islands and commission Cheung Chau’s Yau Luen company to make flower plaques, which were co-designed with designer Tam Shui.
Format
Exhibition
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
00:00-23:59
Language
Cantonese

AI (Artificial Islands)
Preston Hartwick & Brian Wong @ Liber Research Community
The Kau Yi Chau Artificial Islands are marketed as a utopian project that will ignite economic prosperity, embrace environmental conservation, and support sustainable development. An achievable dream or a fleeting hallucination?
Format
Exhibition
Port of Call
Cheung Chau
Time
10:00-18:00
Language
None

Island Synchronisation
Paul Chung & Tidus Shing
The project proposes an alternative model of islands that promotes mutual benefits by merging a prototype of a hiding habitat for undersea wildlife with a resting place for divers and fishing villagers.
Format
Installation
Port of Call
Chi Ma Wan
Time
00:00-23:59
Language
None.

Mui Wo Time Portal
Kanu Fung, Deer Lok, Sonic Lee & Mary Jan
Explore our impact to the natural environment and community through a three-dimensional terrain map, as well as using buildings to illustrate the neighbourly relationship between Mui Wo and its surroundings.
Format
Exhibition
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
10:00-18:00
Language
Cantonese & English

Situating Circatidal
Joanne Chan, Fok Chun-wing & Tommy Hui
Discover the incredible story of the rocky-shore residents: sea-snails, chitons, algae,... and how they develop special skills to adapt to the tide tempo to live both on the land AND in the sea.
Format
Exhibition
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
10:00-18:00
Language
Cantonese & English

Island Bee & Bee
Roger Lee, Lantau Shanto Studio & YIWOOO.CO.
Did you know solitary bees should be our best friends? Our buzzing neighbours are essential to make our places liveable! This installation provides more houses for them and information for us. Look for them in Mui Wo and Peng Chau!
Format
Installation
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
00:00-23:59
Language
None

Inner Hearing of Island
Brian Lee & Eva Leung
All ears out! Did you hear the buffalo bathing, the Silver River running, or the bulbul chirping? Like a telescope, 'Inner Hearing of Island' will let you listen to specific sounds of our environment, and hear our nonhuman neighbours in their daily lives... So much to hear!
Format
Installation
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
10:00-18:00
Language
Cantonese & English

On the way home with ferry
Virginia Chu & Lingling Lee
Two artistes living on outlying islands interact with voices, rhythms, drums and sounding objects on board the ferry.
Format
Performance
Port of Call
Inter-island Sea
Time
Peng Chau>Cheung Chau:
11:55-12:45 (11.04)
Cheung Chau>Peng Chau:
18:45-19:50 (11.11)
Language
Cantonese

Island Bee & Bee
Roger Lee, Lantau Shanto Studio & YIWOOO.CO
Did you know solitary bees should be our best friends? Our buzzing neighbours are essential to make our places liveable! This installation provides more houses for them and information for us. Look for them in Mui Wo and Peng Chau!
Format
Installation
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
All-day
Language
Cantonese & English

ReCreation (Workshop)
Elizabeth Briel
Join the artist in the production of her artwork! It will take place as a series of performances in Tung Wan, during which participants will make paper in a western style from cotton and linen, incorporating waste textiles donated by islanders.
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
10:00-11:00
Language
English

Island Bee & Bee: Follow Bee! Mui Wo
Roger Lee & Lantau Shanto Studio
Join us to create homes for solitary bees! While we walk along the Silver river, Roger will explain us why bees are wonderful neighbours. Then, we will build homes for the bees to bring back... home.
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
10:00-12:00
14:30-16:30
Language
Cantonese (with English interpretation)

Inter-Island Festival Tour: Mui Wo Sunset Stroll
Miko Yeung & Aubrey Au
Starting from Mui Wo pier, we will walk through Chung Hau Street and Wang Tong. While enjoying the sunset, you will see some exhibition and works in Mui Wo for the Inter-island Festival.
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
17:00-18:00
Language
Cantonese (with English interpretation)

Join our furry friends on their Peng Chau adventures
Sheeta Ng, Cindy Tai, Trista Ma, Wang Wang & Xoey
Walking with dog means much more than we tend to think! Our furry friends have their own routes and own ways of attaching to the island. Join us for this casual walk to look at the island from their perspective - bring your dog too!
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
15:00-16:00
Language
Cantonese & English

“Beyond the Shore" (Peng Chau version) - Performance
Alysa Leung & Gigi Tang
If the great sea had memories, what would it record about us? In this dialogue session, come share with us your stories with the sea.
Format
Performance
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
14:00-19:00 (11.05)
15:20-15:40 (11.26)
Language
Cantonese & English

Together in Time: Cheung Chau Theatre Collective Archive (Workshop)
Jason Gu Jiacheng
Showing a short film and miniature model of the Cheung Chau Theatre, Jason invites participants to recollect and share their memories of the theatre!
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Cheung Chau
Time
13:30-15:30
Language
Cantonese, Mandarin & English (with English subtitles)

Contact improvisation workshop
Pause Health & Wellness
Since the pandemic, artists from the island have been exploring the landscape of the island through their artistry. Feeling and listening deeply to the abundance of the land’s flora and fauna, its undulating terrains, and its more-than-human family.
The workshop will be a movement-based class awakening our bodies as flowing vessels, guiding our attention to our senses through contact improvisation and somatic exploration.
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
19:00-20:00
Language
English

Departure Is My Homecoming
Edwin Chuk Yin-man @ Feast on Waste Land
Drawing inspiration from personal and local history, I step into another end of time and space in Cheung Chau to observe the place where we find ourselves today.
Format
Performance
Port of Call
Cheung Chau
Time
16:00-18:00
Language
Cantonese

We are all connected : let’s move & breathe as one
Pause Health & Wellness
These sessions remind us of the mind-body connection and renews and rewires the way our body moves and functions to bring permanent changes for improved posture and overall health to the systems of the body.
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
14:00-15:00
16:00-18:00
Language
English

Hiking into the Past: Pirates, Pottery, and a Path to the Sea
Daisann McLane
A walk along the Chi Ma Wan trail and the old village path to Tai Long Wan beach takes us into past centuries of Island Life. We’ll learn about the villages and the ways of life that were part of our island community before Hong Kong existed.
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Chi Ma Wan
Time
09:30-13:30
Language
English

'Treasure' Hunt
Eduardo F. Freyre, May Ling Chan & Winnie the Farm
Searching for cow dung is the new-gold rush! Join the new-gold diggers Freyre and May Ling in their inter-island adventures between Peng Chau and Mui Wo to find the best natural ingredients to make an amazing compost!
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
14:30-16:40
Language
Cantonese / English

Urbex on Cheung Chau
Eric Liu & Johnny Li
Eric and Johnny, co-authors of Empty City as well as Cheung Chau locals, will unveil the mysterious side of the island with you while tracing down the vestige of the dated culture engraved here.
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Cheung Chau
Time
13:30 - 16:30
Language
Cantonese

Envisioning Vision: Co-creating Dream Life with Singing Bowl Experience
Island Within Community Hub
Singing-bowl therapist Zero will use the 'multi-sensory experience' to share her journey of creating an island life via her vision. Through photo-exhibition, real-life stories, singing-bowl-meditation and self-exploration, you will be guided to access your vision to co-create the ideal life.
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
16:00-17:15
Language
Cantonese

Celestial 天上 “Subversions” From Dub to Sub
Celestial天上
With an interest in seeing how pure “non-musical” sounds can become music and be combined with melodic plays, Celestial 天上 will create music from a laptop, in a performance that brings background, unattended sounds to the foreground.
Format
Performance
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
17:00-18:00
Language

Peng Chau Rocky Shore Tour
Tommy Hui
Visitors will be led to explore a rocky shore in Peng Chau to link between the exhibition 'Situating Circatidal' and actual, on-shore ecological patterns.
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Peng Chau
Time
13:30-16:00 (11.12)
09:00-11:30 (11.18)
Language
Cantonese (with English interpretation)

Stray in Chi Ma Wan
Miko Yeung
‘Stray in Chi Ma Wan’ is a tour to discover more stories behind this ex-Chi Ma Wan Detention Camp. Besides, you will also see stray buffaloes and a hidden reservoir in Chi Ma Wan.
Format
Guided Tour
Port of Call
Chi Ma Wan
Time
14:15-17:05 (11.12 & 19)
11:10-14:15 (11.18 & 25)
Language
Cantonese (with English interpretation on 11.25)

Make your own Asalato - instrument DIY workshop
More More Goods
You will be guided to make a pair of Asalato, a traditional musical instrument of West Africa, in a 45-min workshop. Of course, you bring your masterpiece home. After the workshop comes the 30-min jam session! Mentor Travis will lead you through the rhythm of this beautiful instrument and make sure you are submerged in this acoustic melody.
This activity welcomes children aged 3+ accompanied by a parent.
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
Times variable
Language
Cantonese

Rhythms of the Inter-island (Installation)
HKU student team led by Otto Heim and supported by Celestial天上 and soundpocket
This set of interactive installations is for you to play! Listen or make noise... Does it recall sounds that you hear on the islands?
Format
Installation
Port of Call
Mui Wo
Time
10:00-18:00
Language
None

The Best Sound in the World: book sharing and sound walk
So Wai Lam & Harmony Li
What are the sounds of Cheung Chau? Can you recognize them? Dimdimmama and Solam will bring us (kids and parents) on a walk to rediscover the island... with our ears!
Format
Workshop
Port of Call
Cheung Chau
Time
12:00-14:00
Language
Cantonese






















