Party on the beach
In the first installment of her series on Hong Kong's outlying islands, Faye Bradley revisits some of the time-honored island festivals and finds out about newer ones that celebrate local traditions and environments.
"We anchor this festival on the interisland ferry service that runs daily between Cheung Chau, Chi Ma Wan, Mui Wo and Peng Chau, attesting to the historical and contemporary links that exist between these ports, creating an interisland neighborhood," says Inter-Island Festival co-founder Kit Chan. "We also aim at showing the richness and diversity of the different ways in which people live in Hong Kong."
Closed down in the '80s, Peng Chau Theatre opened its doors to the public for the first time in over three decades to host two exhibitions that were a part of the festival. My Path to Peng Chau Cinema by Jiming Lu invited visitors to take a journey down memory lane, based on the accounts of those who remembered the facility from a time when it was functional. Situating Circatidal, put together by Fok Chun-wing, Joanne Chan, and Tommy Hui, offered visitors an immersive encounter with the biodiversity patterns in the coastal environments surrounding Peng Chau and Mui Wo.
