Who's Who?

3.ceramics was founded by Harmony Lai, a ceramic artist currently in her sixth year living on Peng Chau. The space is dedicated to pottery and incense and housed inside an historic building tied to Peng Chau’s porcelain heritage. Using clay and fragrance, the studio captures the island's unique culture and daily life from a local perspective.

Benjamin Kidder Hodges is an artist and anthropologist originally from Richmond, Virginia. His research-based art and writing draws on folklore, mythology, and media archaeology to highlight overlooked histories and speculate possible futures. This often involves building links between material culture and affects from boredom to shock.

Hodges completed his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and has been a Fulbright grantee in Bulgaria. He has written extensively on land reclamation, island infrastructure, and atmospheres both real and imagined. He has published in the journals Folk, Knowledge, Place, WiderScreen, Shima, Mobilities, Etropic, Asia Art Archive's LIKE A FEVER and is a member of the editorial collective behind Shimaqua.

In addition to his writing and exhibitions, he has taught workshops on 3D animation and open source software in Europe, Asia, and the US. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau, where he teaches filmmaking, media studies, and cultural studies within the Department of Communication. 

Hodges has exhibited in SVA Gramercy Gallery, 1708 Gallery, Creative Macau, Art Macao Biennale, Artelli, AFA Macau, University of Macau Museum of Art, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, AMODA (Austin Museum of Digital Art), CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism, and the Script Road Macao Literary Festival.

Bryan Wood is a director and producer of the documentary, The Shop Below the Hill, and a senior video producer for CNN in Hong Kong. He produces, shoots, and edits videos from concept to completion, pre- to post-production. Wood's work has also appeared on outlets like Reuters, PBS Newshour and the BBC in spot news, documentary, and explainer styles. Originally from a small US–Mexico border town, Wood has worked in Washington D.C., Peru, Bolivia, and Hong Kong. He has an MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

C+dou (豆豆貓人) is a children’s Art instructor who loves nature and the beauty in the tiny, everyday things of life. She  creates visual art across different media with both adults and children. She believes that playing games is a super important part of life. 

In the last edition of the Inter-island Festival, she shared stories about the connection between cattle and humans with The Education University of Hong Kong’s ‘One City One Book’ reading project and led community reading sessions and zine-making workshops.

C+dou designed and led a series of parent–child group games for the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum exhibition No Pain, No Gain. All Work and No Play? Children’s Play in Old Textbooks. She also worked with The Conservancy Association to create and publish an environmental education picture book titled What Can I Do Right Now?

Owner of Cinpou (Peng Chau local shop), Creator of “paper．scissors．word” (Zine), TV documentary producer, Writer, Part-time barista, Sewist. 

2020｜Curator: Unfolding Memories - Folding Iron doors on Peng Chau (Exhibition｜IIF 2020）

2024｜Multimedia Producer: 95 Years of Hong Kong's Public Broadcasting (Exhibition｜Hong Kong Museum of History)

Founded in 2014, CarbonCare InnoLab (CCIL) is an independent community NGO dedicated to promoting climate action and catalysing the transition to low-carbon lifestyles. CCIL envisions a sustainable future where climate action is accessible and inclusive, with a strong mission to nurture and expand a community active in climate justice through innovation, education, and action.

CCIL actively engages NGOs, businesses, policymakers, and youth in achieving a just transition to a low-carbon economy that respects and protects vulnerable communities.

Through youth empowerment, community engagement, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and deepening knowledge of the intricate issues of climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, CCIL aims to empower our society to effectively respond to the global climate crisis.

Wing likes finding magic in the mundane and turning everyday waste into treasures. Having long dreamed of a life on Peng Chau, she recently settled into a seaside flat, spending her days on the balcony reimagining the meanings and possibilities of home.

Chan Tsz Shan is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ (HKAPA) School of Film and Television, specialising in sound design for film. He holds a Higher Diploma in Creative Film Production from Hong Kong Baptist University, where his talent was recognised through awards for that year’s Best Film and Best Director for his graduation project, Margarita. Chan has continued his learning with training in Dolby Atmos. His academic journey has been marked by several scholarships, highlighting his outstanding achievements. 

Alongside his passion for film, he has also developed an interest in stage photography and poster design, actively participating in productions throughout his study at HKAPA.

Cheng Wing Chun is a salvage DIYer who enjoys working and building with discarded materials. Having migrated to Cheung Chau by chance, Cheng has found a place to live that accommodates a compost toilet system, which affords him a deeper understanding of the organic waste circular loop.

Chu Hoi Ding (b.1994) is a graduate of the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts. Within her practice of ceramic arts and mixed media installation, she explores craftsmanship, archive, materiality, and material culture of daily objects. 

Having grown up near the shore, Chu carries many sea-related memories in her heart and mind. In recent years, she relocated to Sai Kung, which has deepened her affection for life by the shore.

Colette Herry is a French artist based in Peng Chau. She specialises in interactive 3D art and digital scenography.

Florence Wai works as a producer and project manager for new media arts projects in Hong Kong.

Gabe Singer is a director and producer of the documentary, The Shop Below the Hill, and a documentary filmmaker and video journalist based in Hong Kong. Originally from Washington D.C., Singer  worked as a freelancer across the US before joining Thomson Reuters in 2023. His video reporting has appeared locally in the South China Morning Post, Washington Post, New York Times, Yahoo News, and across Reuters digital platforms.

Gloria Furness is a seasoned cultural manager with more than a decade’s experience serving Hong Kong’s arts and culture sector, giving her a wealth of insight into festival management. She has formerly served as Director of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival, overseeing the inaugural programmes of the rural community resource centre, Koon Man Space. In addition to prior roles at Hong Kong Arts Festival, M+, CUHK, and Hong Kong Fringe Club, Furness has collaborated as an independent practitioner with WestK, French May Arts Festival, Hong Kong Phil, RTHK4, HKPAX, Tang Shu Wing Theatre Company, and MCCM Creations, among many others. She also regularly translates plays and essays from vernacular Cantonese into English. 

Since 2023, she has been deeply involved in island community projects, including volunteer animal care on Peng Chau and a farming apprenticeship in Mui Wo. 

Furness previously joined the second Inter-island Festival in 2023 as Volunteer Coordinator. 

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Fun is an environmental policy specialist with a Master's degree in Social Policy. She has gained extensive experience in research and knowledge transfer through her management of diverse research projects and academic activities during her tenure at multiple universities. Her research focus is primarily on climate change policy, particularly energy policy.

Prior to joining CCIL in 2023, Fun graduated from the inaugural Climate Advocacy Training for Youth (CATY) programme. Her strong passion for climate advocacy led to her selection as one of the youth delegates to COP26 as an Observer. Currently, her main focus is on the CATY programme. Through sharing her experience and knowledge, she aims to empower Hong Kong's youth as climate advocates and promote climate justice.

Ironshroom Pottery Studio was founded in 2023 by Aby Emmet Shaw (b.1995) and Iris Chen Qin (b.1998) while pursuing their Master’s degrees at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Shaw originally studied chemistry before shifting his path to apprentice under renowned ceramic artists Nic Collins and Sabine Nemet. He later worked in a hand-made flower pot factory and has since traveled to Japan and Jingdezhen for advanced ceramic research.

Chen was trained in Experimental Art at the China Academy of Art. Her practice navigates between fictional narrative and material remains.

To date, the duo has collaborated with restaurants to produce bespoke dinnerware, conducted extensive research on local clay sources on Lamma Island, and built a wood-fired kiln, which they fueled using fallen wood salvaged from typhoons.

Their work embodies themes of sustainability, ecology, and slow-growth. Through experimental approaches in ceramic art, they integrate spirituality with utility, treating each object as a relic of both the present and the future.

Jimmie Lu is an independent writer, art freelancer, and curator. She is the author of the Chinese-language texts Chiu1zik1 zhi1 gan1, tong4 zhi1 fa1, and hei1yun6 zik1gan1, which blend philosophical thinking and theatrical elements with artistic expression, utilising a cross-cultural perspective to examine the intricate connections between individuals and their communities. Past projects have explored mental landscapes, gender dynamics, and island life.

Lu holds a Master’s in Discourse Analysis from the University of Nantes (France), where she also studied theatre research and practice. 

At the second Inter-island Festival in 2023, she served as Peng Chau Local Coordinator and the curator of the exhibition My Path to Peng Chau Cinema. For the third edition in 2026, she is the Peng Chau Local Curator and is screening the documentary film The Shop Below the Hill, for which she served as director and producer.

Kit Chan is a cultural practitioner, festival organiser, and social design educator based in Hong Kong. He is the co-founder of Islanders Ltd, an independent research lab and platform dedicated to place-based research, zine publishing, and island culture. Through Islanders, he publishes the Islanders Zine—a map-based zine series that documents Peng Chau from an urban research perspective.

Chan is also involved in developing community spaces for Peng Chau. He leads Peng Chau Cinema, a community micro-cinema project that revitalises the historical space through film, music, markets, and exhibitions, and is the co-founder of Nam Wan Bookshop, an independent bookshop and cultural space promoting independent publishing and slow reading culture on the island.

In parallel with his cultural organisation work, Chan is a part-time visiting lecturer in Social Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he mentors students to explore design as a socially engaged and community-driven practice.

His work explores the intersections of art, publishing, design, and community, with a strong focus on local narratives, island ecologies, and participatory culture.

Chan is a co-founder of the Inter-island Festival and organiser through Islanders Ltd and has been a key player across all three editions.

Leung Hei Na is an active practitioner in contemporary theatre, music, and vocal performance with a solid foundation in classical music. 

Since 2016, she has participated in numerous productions with Opera HK. Other recent performance credits include: Dare You No More!, The Improv Comedy Show, Book of Mountains and Seas – “The Fates of Mountains and Rivers・Finale”, #1314, and 18 Districts Artist-in-Residence. 

Leung holds a degree in music, majoring in vocals, from the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. During her studies, she was awarded six scholarships and performed in operatic works such as Giulio Cesare, Cavalleria Rusticana, Idomeneo, and The Magic Flute.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, FUNG YAT SHAN (LINUS) is a Hong Kong-based clarinettist who actively gives classical, contemporary and improvisatory musical performances. Linus is a core member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME), the clarinettist of Wuji Ensemble, Freespace Ensemble, LENK Quartet, Viva Pipers and The TimeCrafters. Developing his recent passion on the exploration of electroacoustic live processed clarinet performance, Linus' works as clarinettist, concept, composer and music director include "KONG", "Lychee Goklok" and "Snorkelling in Plastic". His solo trilogy "Ecotone" is featured in Stockholm and Gothenburg fringe festivals 2026. A graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (BA, Music) and the Royal Northern College of Music (MMus), he has studied under Martin Choy, Lynsey Marsh, John Bradbury, and Nicholas Cox.

Mark Chung (b. 1990, New Zealand) is an artist working and living in Hong Kong.

Though his given name is Mark and his maternal name Jenewein, his paternal name belongs to a non-phonetic language system, ensuring the unfortunate inconvenience of a futile romanisation process. By applying three common translinguistic systems used in close geographical, cultural, linguistic, and political proximity with the tongue Mark grew up with, his family name could be Zung1, Tsung, or Jāng. That said, a simplified version of the Standard Romanisation for Cantonese (a system used by Christian Missionaries in the 1880s) was implemented by the authority of the Hong Kong colonial government, who gave him the family name “Chung”.

Michelle Wun Ting Wong received her PhD in Art History from The University of Hong Kong. Her research on modern and contemporary art sits at the intersection of East and Southeast Asia. Wong was the lead researcher at Asia Art Archive, where she organised and digitised the late artist Ha Bik Chuen's collection. Recent curatorial projects include Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen’s Motherboards and Collagraphs at Para Site (2025). Having worked on Ha’s legacy across multiple institutions since 2013, she often wonders what it means to remember other people’s lives.

Nam Wan Bookshop offers a selection of books that questions how we inhabit the world today, and particularly islands, by bringing together books about islands and maritime cultures, ecology, climate-fiction, community building, urban studies, cartography, and others.

With pocket-size events—book clubs, wine nights, mapping workshops, music sessions, exhibitions—it became a quiet neighborhood gathering point.

Nelson Hiu, born and raised in Honolulu Hawaii, is a fourth-generation descendant of Chinese and Japanese immigrants. His interest in music, improvisation and self-discovery began while a secondary school student during the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s. He is a multi-instrumentalist. He studied ethno-musicology at the University of Hawaii. He has been living in Hong Kong since 1985 as Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts hired him to come to teach. Nelson has also been a founding member of many new music ensembles in Hawaii and Hong Kong including Nuclear Tan, the Pagan Babies, Gain Dangerous Visions, the Pet Project Hawaii, Uncarved Block, CIMG (Collective Improvisational Music Group), Little Red Truck, Dancing Stone and Yihk, and has collaborated extensively with dance and theatre. His music for dance has been performed in Hawaii, Arizona, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Utah, New York City, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and the Mainland.

The Peng Chau Archive is a project that aims at challenging official historical narratives about Peng Chau by collecting residents’ memories in the form of testimonies, photos or artifacts. It gathered island residents, new and old, at various times. Participating members:

Myriem is a PhD student at the Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK, where she works on urban islands and political ecology. She is based on Peng Chau, where she co-founded Islanders Zine, the Inter-Island Festival, and Nam Wan Bookshop.

April is a descendant of fishermen. It is her pleasure to be one of the curators of this project so she can know more about her family's history. For example, the living condition on the boat, the life being a fisherman and the career change from a fisherman to be a worker. 

Jimmie studied in France, where she immersed herself in discourse analysis and the practice of theatre. Before the pandemic, she relocated to an outlying island, and there embarked upon a long observation of island life and its inhabitants. From this sustained attention, there grew a devotion to maritime literature and ecological writing. She responds to the island through the act of writing—attempting, within the fabric of language, to preserve and to generate the stories that belong to this place. She has authored "潮汐之間" and "戲院席間". 

Raven embraces urban life while loving all things from the nature. She has worked in organizations promoting urban farming in Hong Kong and Taipei, participating in the promotion of urban green spaces in various roles such as businesses, NGOs, and advocacy groups. She is interested in urban ecology and urban natural resources management, food and agriculture issues. Through her involvement in promoting sustainable development and climate crisis-related work, she hopes to establish a healthier symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.

Ricky Yeung is a retired secondary school visual arts teacher. Raised in the 1960s and 1970s, and shaped by Western popular culture while nourished by local culture, Yeung is still full of curiosity about the world, with many questions ranging from the material to the spiritual. Urban space and the natural environment have always been issues he cares about.

So Chuen On is a Hong Kong composer, arranger, and music director whose work spans chamber music, orchestral writing, Chinese traditional music, multimedia creation, musical theatre, pop, and music for visual media.

So has served as composer, arranger, keyboardist, and music director for projects including: the multimedia work As The Echo Fades; the exhibition Splendour of Radiance: Ancient Gold Artefacts at the Hong Kong Palace Museum; Ebb and Flow of the Tide by The HK Legends; and the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts’ (HKAPA) production of Cats. His collaborators include The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Windmill Grass Theatre, HKAPA, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Gaudeamus Dunhuang Ensemble, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, The Euphonious, Hong Kong Yao Yueh Chinese Music Association, Hong Kong Youth Choir, and East Side Dance Troupe.

So’s music blends Eastern aesthetics with Western structural techniques, connecting diverse artistic media while exploring electronic sound, experimental textures, and traditional instruments.

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Having begun writing poetry in childhood, later studied theatre, and now working with photography, Cheung explores different artistic media as a way to connect with themselves and others.

Identifying as a bard, Cheung actively seeks opportunities for live performance. To them, being a bard means travelling from place to place, reciting poetry and performing original works to share their perspectives on life, as well as their reflections on people, events, and the world around them. Through a light-hearted and accessible approach, they hope to communicate these thoughts and sentiments in ways that resonate with a wider audience.

Taki, a Peng Chau islander and an irredeemable romantic and idealist. A few years ago in Vienna, while helping coordinate a matchmaking event for the first time, she realized that dating doesn't have to be an anxiety-inducing speed-screening exercise—with the right setup, it can be a warm, heartfelt conversation that fosters genuine connection. That spark turned hosting dating events into her passion. By day, she teaches psychology at an institution, and she is also the co-founder of Flying Clouds Bookstore at Sai Ying Pun.

William Lane is the Founder of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME). As a soloist, orchestral, and chamber musician, he has performed across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. His distinguished career includes serving as Principal Viola of Ensemble Resonanz and as a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a guest violist with Ensemble Modern and the Lucerne Festival Strings. In 2013, he was honored with the Young Artist (Music) award from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Wing Yi Shih is a graduate of the full-time Advanced Certificate Course in Theatre and the Mind-Body Arts Performance and Practice Course at Radix Troupe.

Since graduating, she has collaborated with various performing arts groups, working across forms including physical theatre, contact improvisation, and theatre. She is particularly committed to exploring physical performance, believing that the body carries stories that words cannot fully express.

In recent years, Shih has also begun practising and sharing mindfulness, believing that both art and meditation can serve as bridges towards a deeper understanding of oneself.

Surman Woo Siu Man is a Hong Kong theatre-maker and writer based in Peng Chau. She is a co-founder of Envoyage Artist Collective. Recent work include Pencil Production’s Passage Migrants (dramaturg), Envoyage Artist Collective Sailing Is for Nomads (dramaturg), and Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s Project Kite’s A Slice of the Ocean (playwright). Co-founder of Envoyage Artist Collective. 

Woo graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in Drama, majoring in playwriting.

Yam Gong is a Hong Kong poet who began writing modern poetry in the 1970s. He has won multiple poetry awards in Hong Kong and published several poetry collections, including his recent works Therefore You Sort of Move a Stone and Hide and Seek and Look at the Festive Lights Along the Street and Moving A Stone (published in a bilingual English/Chinese edition).

Yip Kai Chun is an artist born and based in Hong Kong. His creations often involve immersion in overlooked or peripheral communities and localities, using sound, text, and video to create instances of interaction and understanding.

He has lived on and been nourished by Peng Chau, an outer island in Hong Kong, for nine years. His fascination with the island's unique environment led to artistic research and intervention on Peng Chau and its surroundings, including How to draw a line across the sea?, a solo exhibition at Peng Chau Cinema in 2025.

Yip is a co-founder and organiser of the Inter-island Festival and has been a major driving force in all three editions.

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Art Foragers is a studio that blends the transformative power of expressive arts with a commitment to healing and empowering communities and organisations. In a results-oriented and fragmented world, they exist to facilitate a way back to our bodies and emotions through process-based expressive arts. 

Pivoting away from the form and technique emphasised in traditional art education, Art Foragers practices listening patiently for the intelligence at the heart of every moment of creation, acknowledging that creativity lives inside of all of us.

The group believes that humans, throughout time, have used the arts as a map for healing, community building, and wisdom-seeking. For this reason, they are passionate about bringing the creative process into workshop spaces to foster well-being, as a way to build connections back to themselves and to each other.

Cally Yu (Yu Yeuk Mui) is a Hong Kong writer, community arts curator, and educator. In 2013 she founded Grey and Green Ping Pong to promote the concept of Creative Aging through community arts. Her theatre works include a piece that earned her the IATC Critic’s Award for Playwright of the Year (2018). She continues to explore the possibilities of language, using poetic texts to respond to the state of society.

Catherine Li is currently a PhD Candidate specialising in literary studies, with a particular focus on contemporary Hong Kong literature and the cultural geographies of archipelagos. Her research engages with the transoceanic and cross-currents of influence that shape Hong Kong’s literary imagination, especially in relation to its historical role as a port city and its evolving maritime identity. Her PhD project seeks to reimagine Hong Kong as an archipelago, rather than a singular urban centre. Her broader research interests include transregional Sinophone studies, archipelagic theory, and the poetics of water.

Dominic Johnson-Hill is an artist, entrepreneur and TV host who spent 30 years in Beijing, where he founded his street wear brand and agency Plastered 8. He now lives and creates in Mui Wo/Wang Tong where he founded the Wang Tong Art Walk outdoor gallery. Dominic has collaborated with artists from all over the world, creating his own unique playful pop art aesthetic. He loves celebrating the ridiculous and prides himself on being impulsive and immature.

Dr. Michael Rivera grew up in Mui Wo and Pui O. Together with his sister, Dominique, they grew up hiking, swimming, playing and sharing family time by the River Silver and at Pui O Beach. Dr. Rivera is an anthropologist, archaeologist and public speaker based at The University of Hong Kong, with particular research interests in coastal histories and human ecology. Together with close friends and students, he endeavors to promote island studies with university students, schools, non-profits and public audiences across Hong Kong.

Emmy Sandt is a Hong Kong–based woodworker, furniture restorer, and the founder of Emmy Sandt Studios. Drawing from a background in technical theatre, Sandt established her studio to focus on bespoke furniture design and meticulous historic restoration, transforming raw timber and worn heirlooms into enduring, functional art.

At Emmy Sandt Studios, she combines traditional joinery with sustainable sourcing, offering clients custom commission work and expert conservation that honours structural integrity and natural grain. Every piece reflects her deep reverence for timber, precision engineering, and the unique stories embedded in aged wood.

Beyond her primary studio practice, Sandt is the co-founder of A Collective Space, a multidisciplinary design and wellness initiative based in Mui Wo. There, she leads community woodworking workshops and vocational training.

Through both her custom commissions and community outreach, Sandt elevates the craft of woodworking, uniting heritage craft, historical preservation, and active creative leadership.

Friendly Liu is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based artist. Having grown up by the sea, Liu shares a deep bond with the ocean and her work frequently explores themes of nature and environmental conservation. Liu takes on many roles: freelance art director, exhibition curator, member of the WENU crew, event organiser, and founder of Invasian Magazine.

Liu has participated as a guest artist or exhibitor in 70+ events across more than a dozen countries, including the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, and more. She has also performed live in Hong Kong at events like Clockenflap and Projekt Berlin in Tai Kwun, as well as at festivals throughout Asia and Europe.

Liu shares her work using whatever materials are at hand and is committed to spreading positive thinking and sharing her art, love, and culture to her audiences.

The Salvation Army is an international Christian church and charitable organisation dedicated to shaping lives, caring for communities, and nurturing believers. It currently operates in 134 countries and regions worldwide. The Salvation Army has been serving Hong Kong society since 1930, for more than 95 years to date.

The Hong Kong Playground Association was founded in 1933. It is a long-established non-governmental social service agency for young people in Hong Kong, committed to fostering holistic and balanced development in moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic domains, to ready today’s youth for inheriting tomorrow’s Hong Kong.

A Hong Kong-based illustrator and art teacher, running "Lantau Art" studio on Lantau Island. Through art, Kate documents the scenery of Hong Kong and everything she loves. She has collaborated with various major brands on commercial illustrations and partnered with community organisations to host art workshops.

Kumi Masunaga is an internationally renowned Japanese percussionist, REMO artist, and founder of Drum Jam in Hong Kong. A two-time TEDx presenter, she has shared the stage with global change-makers like Jane Goodall. Kumi is a Village Music Circles Global Trainer and an evidence-based HealthRHYTHMS facilitator, bringing twenty-five years of experience and vibrant zest to her corporate team-building, school programmes, and wellness retreats. From Africa to Asia, Kumi uses the universal language of rhythm to ignite connection and well-being in every community she touches.

Lantau Pottery Studio is the project of Fatima Morrissey, a ceramic artist and educator based in Mui Wo. Since 2013, she has served the community through adult courses, children's classes, workshops, and shared studio space—remaining a creative anchor in the neighborhood for over a decade.

Morrissey’s ceramic pieces are quiet, three-dimensional stories drawn from the map of her life. Through earthy texture and vivid illustration, her works evoke a nostalgia both familiar and distant. Her style blends Austrian folklore, symbolic imagery from India, and the enduring aesthetics of her husband's Southeast Asian culture—creating illustrated heirlooms that whisper of old-world wisdom and new-world possibilities.

For the Inter-island Festival, Morrissey steps into a new role as curator of Between Tides—the studio's first collective exhibition of children's work. Curated from ten years of teaching in a place shaped by water and tides, the exhibition is not a showcase of juvenile effort, but a considered curation of genuine artistic voices—guided by Fatima's eye and fired in her kiln.

Lantau Pottery Studio is located at G/F, 28, Rural Committee Rd, Mui Wo, Lantau Island.

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Ning-Ning and Faith are Filipino–Hong Kong people who have meandered through their teens and stepped into adulthood surrounded by friends on Lantau Island. Alongside many collaborators, they held the group exhibition marginalia (notes from the peripheries), exploring Hong Kong art through the expansive and generative possibilities of the margins. In their own practice, Ning-Ning is a writer interested in alternative art histories and self-publishing as mutual aid; Faith is a creative who writes, designs, and produces audio-visual work.

Sang Ok Kim (of wknd Ltd) is a Hong Kong-bornand-raised Korean social entrepreneur and proud Lantau resident, with a professional background in landscape architecture, sustainable urban development, and forest bathing and therapy. She is passionate about the well-being of Hong Kong’s community and its environment.

Since 2003, she has worked in eight cities on four continents, in fields ranging from sustainable landscape and urban design to urban farming research, environmental management consulting, and brand and retail management.

She currently enjoys her simple and nature-based life in Mui Wo and is honoured to be part of the third Inter-island Festival, where she works with local creatives and businesses to show all the unique potentials of Mui Wo.

In 2021, the neo-chamber ensemble Sea Island Ferry performed in Mui Wo at the very first Inter-island Festival. Five years later, much has changed in the lives of the musicians, the islands, and the world. Come hear how the ensemble has grown through times of change, at a purely instrumental performance for piano, cello, violin, and clarinet.

Players:

Arnold Fang (Piano)

Tim Tong (Cello)

John Wong (Violin)

Gladys Wong (Clarinet)  

Located in Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Seek Seed is an independent space featuring curated books, craftwork, exhibitions, and zines. With themes refreshed quarterly, we explore and celebrate the diverse actions, choices, and possibilities rooted in island and rural life.

Sne Roy is a Hong Kong based psychologist, mental health advocate, and the Managing Director of A Collective Space. Deeply rooted in academic study, they bring an analytical and data backed approach to program development, ensuring that all clinical initiatives and community offerings are grounded in rigorous empirical research.

In both their counselling practice and executive leadership, Sne bridges structured psychological evidence with hands on creative modalities. They translate complex behavioral science into accessible experiential programs, using craft based therapy and to create intentional spaces where individuals can safely process stress, build resilience, and explore personal growth.

Grounded in a philosophy that prioritizes curiosity over perfectionism, Sne empowers diverse communities to engage with mental health meaningfully. Through evidence informed counseling, strategic direction, and compassionate advocacy, they continue to pioneer holistic, community driven wellness across Hong Kong.

Hong Kong-based performer-choreographer Wai-yin has a PhD in marine ecology and has trained as a pole dancer. His/Their creative practice encompasses research, choreography, video and objects, and draws on personal experience and embodied perception as a basis for performance creation and knowledge-making.

Zheng Mahler are artist Royce Ng and anthropologist Daisy Bisenieks’s collaborative examination of global trade, the relational networks connecting nature and technology and more-than-human geographies, exploring their flows of mutual influence and the environmental architectures they produce.

wknd is a social enterprise established in 2013 by Hong Kong-born Korean mother who has been living and managing her business in Mui Wo since 2020. As a collective, the social enterprise creates and manages range of social and environmental projects, engaging various communities, organisation and businesses. The team of two Mui Wo moms will be organising the community and student-led market for Inter-island Festival.

Alexandra Stewart-Long is a qualified architect whose work has taken her across the UK, China, and Hong Kong. Having lived in Hong Kong for the past seven years, she’s developed a deep interest in the relationship between the places we inhabit, the natural environment, and the materials we use to shape them.

She is particularly interested in understanding where materials come from, the impact they have on our environment, and what happens to them when we no longer need them. With growing pressure on landfills around the world, Stewart-Long believes there is huge potential in reconsidering what we call “waste” — recognising that many discarded materials still have valuable properties and possibilities for reuse.

This thinking led her to establish Bisque-Kit, a series of hands-on creative workshops that reconnect people with nature through making. Using earth and other natural or repurposed materials, the workshops encourage participants to explore where materials come from, how they behave, and how we can make more thoughtful choices about what we use and throw away.

Based in Mui Wo, she is inspired by Lantau’s unique landscapes, wildlife, and communities, and is passionate about celebrating and protecting the environment she calls home.

Alysa Leung is an artist and dramaturg based in Hong Kong and Europe. She is devoted to researching city, body, and self-identity through intercultural and community arts projects; her recent research focuses on oceanic cultures. 

After receiving an MA in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Dramaturgy from Utrecht University in 2022, she pursued choreographic research at ImpulzTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. In 2024, she founded If Time’s Limited, a collective platform working in post-dramatic performance. Major recent work includes Ivy Says, commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and awarded the "Outstanding Non-Conventional Space Production" at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2026. Leung’s previous works have been presented across various cities, such as Paris, Ovidiu, Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, Itoshima, Vienna, Kortrijk, Ticino, Surabaya, and Jakarta.

Leung was awarded Arts Impact Fellowship 2025 (WestK) and the Emerging Artist Grant 2024 (Hong Kong Arts Development Council [HKADC]) and was recognised as resident artist of the “Young Arts Tech Talents Residency Scheme 2024” (HKADC). In 2025, the experimental dance film she made with filmmaker Anson Sham was selected to screen at Jumping Frames. 

Charis Poon is an artist and teacher who makes zines, audio art, comics, and texts. She teaches Social Design at the Hong Kong PolyU School of Design, where she experiments with how teaching and learning happen. Her practice considers poetics in communication, learning through making, slow growth, and collective endeavours. A Hong Kong resident all her life, she has moved from Kowloon and the New Territories onto Hong Kong island. Poon frequently visits outlying islands with her dog Koopa to hike and explore.

Greenpeace is an independent international environmental organisation that exposes global environmental issues and proposes corresponding solutions through scientific research, policy advocacy, and peaceful action.

Greenpeace does not accept funding from any government, corporation, or political group; the organisation relies solely on direct donations from individuals to maintain integrity and independence.

Garden Plus is a farmstead located in Pui O, Lantau Island, a village rich in ecological biodiversity. Making full use of the abundant natural resources on this land, the group experiments with and promotes enzyme‑assisted rice cultivation and seasonal vegetable growing. They also organise a wide range of ecological education activities to help more people understand the value of enzymes and experience green living first‑hand.

Garden Plus is not only an enzyme‑based farm, but also an ecological education platform for the public to connect with nature and learn about sustainable agriculture.

Iris Sham Sin Hang is a Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice intertwines food, image, and material processes. With a background in politics, law, and food-based art research, she explores social justice, collective memory and cultural rootedness. She uses ingredients, fermentation, and lens-based work as poetic and political archives to cultivate tenderness and resilience. She is a member of the Food Art Research Network and the food editor of Planted Journal.

One day in 2009, an injured buffalo "Ngau Ngau" came outside of Jean's house in Chi Ma Wan. Jean promised to take care of it till the end. Since then, taking care of Lantau buffalos has become her daily routine, feeding them in the winter, healing their open wounds, dealing with AFCD...

Lantau Culture Workshop works with the community to document developments on Lantau Island, promote environmental education, and advocate for the conservation of the island’s marine environment, land, and cultural heritage.

Four very different women, each with distinct personalities and areas of expertise, met at different points in time on Mui Wo. Bonded by their shared passion for unearthing Lantau Island’s mineral pigments, they formed a creative collective that ventures both up mountains and into the sea. For Lantau Earth Palette, mineral pigments are more than just a crafting material; it is a clue to the geological history of the island, and to the creatures who’ve left their footprints on this land. 

Lantau Earth Palette is represented at the Festival by Jess Kong, Crystal Ng, and Tiffany Wong.

Louisa Mammeri is a cultural worker whose practice seeks truths where official narratives perpetuate bias, ignorance, and power dynamics. She explores emotions such as guilt and shame as much as social and political imperatives like responsibility and reparations. Her mediums are culinary performances, research, and community mobilising. Ultimately, this practice is motivated not by pointing fingers but by flipping the script to enable more constellations of care and solidarity to emerge across the Eastern and Southern geographies where she operates. Mammeri is of German and Algerian heritage and is currently based in Bangkok.

Luis Arturo Tapia is a director, cinematographer, and producer. Born in Mexico and raised in Texas, he moved to Shanghai in 2002 after graduating from Princeton University with a degree in East Asian Studies. In 2006 he co-founded the creative production studio Daedalum Films. After two decades based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, he now runs the studio between Dallas and Hong Kong and works internationally.

Over 20 years Luis Arturo's work has spanned commercial, industrial, web, broadcast, livestream, documentary, and narrative across more than 100 projects. His work has appeared on the BBC, Discovery, Dragon TV, ESPN, International Channel Shanghai, iQiyi, National Geographic, The Olympic Channel, Tencent, ViX, at the Venice Biennale, and in film festivals around the world.

Miko Yeung moved from the city to South Lantau in 2014, where she became actively involved in neighbourhood relations, community participation, and the natural ecology, enjoying the free lifestyle of the countryside. She often wanders the Chi Ma Wan peninsula with her dogs and has gradually gotten to know different neighbours, histories, and stories, with which she is eager to share.

Ocean Park Corporation is a non-profit statutory body and a registered charitable institution. Its vision is to create a world where we take action to conserve our environment and grow positively with nature. Since its opening in 1977, Ocean Park Hong Kong has evolved into a world-class conservation and education hub. The Park creates fun and meaningful experiences grounded in nature, complemented by leisure and adventure elements, to foster environmental stewardship.

Moriaki Yasuhara is a professor in the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong. He has broad interests in integrating organismal biology (ecology and evolutionary biology), paleontology, paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology, especially by using highly resolved micropalaeontological records. His recent research has focused on the spatio-temporal dynamics of large-scale biodiversity patterns, the impact of climate on species diversity, and the controlling factor(s) of biodiversity pattern change in deep-sea, shallow-marine, and pelagic ecosystems. He is also interested in microfossil-based conservation palaeobiology (i.e., fossil evidence of anthropogenic impacts, including pollution, eutrophication, deoxygenation, etc) and palaeontology of the Ostracoda in general.

https://moriakiyasuhara.com/

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more resilient. The Nature Conservancy is working to make a lasting difference around the world in 83 countries and territories through a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. TNC has been in Asia Pacific for over 30 years with projects in Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

Xapa Lit (b. 1999, Hong Kong) is a ceramicist and founder of the sustainable ceramics studio TOCHI LAB. Deeply personal themes like intimacy and self-identity sit at the heart of her exploration. Drawn to the connections among people, objects, and place, Lit approaches clay as a medium that carries story and lived experience. Her work often revolves around personal narrative, environmental change, and the evolution of materials.

In recent years, Lit's practice has gradually extended into research on sustainability and circular materials. Through TOCHI LAB and the Ceramics Cycle initiative, she actively explores the potential of ceramic waste as a creative resource, transforming discarded materials into new forms. Her work has taken her across Asia and Europe; the cultural and environmental experiences she's gathered along the way have broadened her creative horizons and inspired her to bring global environmental and social issues into her ceramic practice.

Yip Wai Bun is a puppetry artist and children's art educator with over 20 years’ experience in education. To inspire children to express their imagination and creativity, he employs play-based teaching methods that encourage exploration and observation. In 2005, the artist founded the Fantasy Puppet Theatre, one of the very few troupes in Hong Kong capable of creating diverse forms of puppetry.

Carolyn Tam is an Architectural Designer based in Hong Kong. She holds a Master of Architecture from MIT, with a focus on integrating nature and material innovation into architectural design. Spanning art, product design, and architecture, her work explores the poetic interplay with nature to create sculptures and immersive spaces imbued with narrative resonance and ecological meaning. She has lectured on architecture and material design as guest lecturer at HKU and HKDI, and shared her expertise at events organized by Swire Properties.

Chi is an architect in Hong Kong and the founder of the award-winning design practice Absence from Island Studio, a collective of architects, designers, and other professionals collaborating on diverse projects. His versatile portfolio spans contextual architecture and experimental art pieces, with a design approach that pushes boundaries while emphasising each project’s uniqueness within its site and cultural context. Chi and Leroy launch the Island Works to uncover the distinctive context and character of Hong Kong's islands, translating these elements into innovative design approaches and artworks that enrich the local design scene.

Pim Ng and Tszlam Yip are the duo behind the Let’s Play programme series. Since 2026, driven by a shared passion for childhood memories, they have brought the classic chasing game, Ho Jai Kung, into community spaces across the city. Together, they explore and share collective childhood games, inviting people of all ages and backgrounds to run, play, and reconnect in public spaces. For this island edition, they hope to exchange urban play experiences with local islanders through the simple joy of play.

Leroy is an architect and designer currently based in London. Originally from Hong Kong, he remains deeply connected to the city in his creative endeavours despite his broad international experience. Recognising the beauty of Hong Kong’s rich island landscapes and diverse scenery, he co-founded Island Works with fellow architect Chi—a collaborative initiative that combines archiving, research and design to explore the creative potential of Hong Kong’s hidden gems. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art, Leroy has a strong passion for making and material culture, which also led him to co-found What Waste?, a studio focused on circular design, transforming waste materials such as recycled plastics into cherished furniture and objects.

Lorraine Li works in placemaking and the preservation of local culture. She likes to understand a place through walking, letting the streets, shores, and everyday rhythms gradually unfold beneath her feet. During the pandemic, she began a series of temporary stays across Hong Kong: Tai O in 2022, and Cheung Chau in 2023. While she fell in love with the quietness of island life, she found herself missing the flavours and pulse of the city even more. She shares her island-side observations and small studies of everyday life on Instagram at @cia.by.the.sea.

Louis To Wun is a versatile contemporary artist, whose works range from painting and sculpture to candy and bamboo intangible culture. 

His artistic career began in the 1990s at a rented house on Lamma Island, where he and a group of painter friends shared days of vigorous painting. His work has since been exhibited at major institutions like the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, PS1 MOMA, British Museum, and venues in Beijing, Shanghai, and Macao. In 2004, To co-founded the gallery and music club, SENSE 99, a popular hang-out for creatives. 

In 2010, wanting to share a childhood memory with his daughter, he looked, unsuccessfully, for someone to teach him the disappearing, 600-year-old art of candy sculpting. Through countless experiments, he managed to teach himself, and now creates candy sculptures under the name Sugarman.

To is also skilled in the art of zi zaat (bamboo sculpting). As a Cheung Chau resident, he is often invited to repair festival qilin (unicorns); from 2013 to 2019, he was commissioned to create the leading qilin of the Tai Ping Ching Chiu Festival. As both a painter and sculptor, he’s developed a unique visual style for his qilin..  In 2015, he invented a waterproofing method for the bamboo sculptures, a technical breakthrough that allowed the ritual dancers to start performing sea ceremonies, in addition to supporting larger sculpture production and long-term conservation. His bamboo artistry has appeared in numerous forums: as wearable dancers’ costumes; in Christopher Doyle’s Hong Kong Film Trilogy; at Leica Design Week Kyoto and Art Central Hong Kong; and as interactive artworks for the sight- and hearing-impaired.

Born and raised on Cheung Chau, this group of residents from the Lutheran Village help manage the daily operation of the village’s welfare centre. They shouldered the responsibilitiy for building 'Little Thing Welfare Centre' for the 2026 Festival, exploring more environmentally friendly possibilities for everyday life.

Athens-born, Hong Kong-raised dance artist Natalia Lai graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2025 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance, majoring in Contemporary Dance.

She expanded her artistic horizons through an exchange programme at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, alongside intensive training with world-renowned companies like Crystal Pite, TAO Dance Theater, and P.A.R.T.S.

She has toured Mainland China with Toolbox Percussion and participated in collaborations with Beyond Dance Theater, Xie Xin Dance Theater’s Black Box Residency Program in Shanghai, E-Side Dance Company, and Miranda Chin Dance Company. As an independent practitioner, her creative research spans contemporary ice skating and the dance film 'Alone Together'.

Preston Hartwick is a visual artist who grew up in Hong Kong and has lived on Cheung Chau Island since 2014. With photography as his primary medium, his work frequently takes the form of long-term investigations of his surrounding landscape and its continuous reshaping through natural and human intervention.

His ongoing project, Hong Kong Aesthetic, is a decade-long counter archive of Hong Kong’s undocumented design — the colors, textures, and patterns that comprise the city’s underlying visual fabric.

Preston was selected as a featured artist for the Inter-Island Festival 2023, where he designed an installation re-interpreting the controversial Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation project as a figment of a failed technocratic fantasy.

He published his first photobook, Bela Vista, in 2021, chronicling six years of observing the interplay between ocean, people, and animals contained within the field of view from a single window overlooking the beach.

Before this, Preston’s photography and sculptural installations have been featured in multiple exhibitions across Hong Kong. He has an intense love for analog photography and can usually be found in his darkroom experimenting with historical photographic processes.

Seoi3 Seoi3 Nim6 is a young curatorial startup dedicated to cultivating local Hong Kong culture, with a focus on urban–rural dynamics and public education. The team specialises in blending archival research and oral history with interactive and collaborative experiences.

A group of 'fools' who go the extra mile to protect nature—deeply cultivated in forests and mountains, shuttling through oceans and seas, cherishing the Earth like it is theirs. Pruning, building, and creating are woven into their everyday lives, through which they mend and deepen the bond between humans and the natural world. Their sweat becomes the gentle potion, nurturing the wilderness within and watering the seed of hopes and dreams.

A graduate of the Faculty of Arts at The Hong Kong University, Tang Lap Hang works across theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary creation.

His collaborations span prominent institutions and artists, including Tai Kwun, Isaac Chong Wai, Peter Suart, Zuni Icosahedron, AFTEC (The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection), Common Ground, Readers, Pants Theatre Production, Théâtre de la Feuille, Y-Space, Extra Stage, and the Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival.

to-day bookstore is an independent bookshop opened in 2021. By connecting like-minded people on and off the island, we expand our collective imagination around local life and the culture of Cheung Chau from different perspectives.

Wing:

Brewing coffee, running events.

Into the community, obsessed with ferries.

Just a big guy squeezing into every rabbit hole (…and getting stuck).

Lilian:

Raised by the sea, nurtured in the mountains: gathering stories, sharing tales.

Yip Kin Bon graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2013. He has lived on the island for five years. As the person responsible for handling household waste, he often witnesses objects gradually becoming rubbish. At times, however, he rediscovers their texture, form, and potential for reuse among the discarded items. These everyday experiences have led him to reconsider the value and function of objects, as well as the moment at which they are truly abandoned.

A creative duo working primarily with paper and imagery, exploring local memory, faith, and displacement.

Zen is a Cheung Chau native whose practice focuses on paper art research, working across ink, photography, and printmaking. Ry grew up amidst overlapping faiths, driven by questions of belonging and dedicated to observing the subtle textures of everyday life.

Zero Lai is a cross-disciplinary designer, university lecturer.

With professional experience across Cheil, RTHK, DEFT, The Oval Partnership, HK01, and SCMP, her expertise spans landscape architecture, advertising communications, and digital marketing. As a documentary and architectural photographer, Lai has won IPPAWARDS (2016, 2024) and Tokyo International Foto Awards, collaborating with partners such as Dior, M+, Huawei, GU, Arca Hotel, and Tai Po Arts Centre.

Lai currently serves on youth committees for Wu Zhi Qiao and Kwai Tsing District, leveraging design and research to drive urban–rural integration, heritage conservation, and sustainable development.

Lai holds a BA in Advertising Design from PolyU and a Master of Landscape Architecture from HKU, alongside exchange studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

in.light.of.living is a small studio dedicated simply to experiencing life and the city. We believe the act of living shapes the city, while the city is a visual manifestation of life. We encourage people to walk instead of ride; take the tram rather than wait for the bus; gently slow down; and widen the gaze. At various times, the studio may take on the role of architect, landscape architect, designer, teacher, author, illustrator, stallholder, or urban researcher—and, sometimes, street-cat whisperer.

Published works include PATTERN, LANGUAGE, SETTING: A glossary of city spaces in Hong Kong  and Typo-ology: a study of chinese character design in the local community (Shop Edition) .

@in.light.of.living