It’s the third edition and the final year of the three-year Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival, organised by the Tourism Commission, supported by the Hong Kong Geopark and curated by a cross-disciplinary design team. We featured the festival’s first year in 2022. This year, the organisers say the aim is to focus on interactions and encounters.

Kurosaki Akira and Nakabayashi Tadayoshi, both born in 1937, are leading figures in post-war Japanese printmaking. The University Museum and Art Gallery in the University of Hong Kong is currently presenting an exhibition of around 650 of their works that highlights not only their differences but also how their approaches gradually converged.

The world is a stage for Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan. At 38, she has already made her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2023 BBC Proms, and this year she opened the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s classical summer season at the Hollywood Bowl. She’s just ended a five-year stint as Principal Conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and before that spent five years with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as principal guest conductor. She’s conducted orchestras in Amsterdam, Oslo, Finland, Berlin, Paris, Cleveland, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, and is currently making her debut in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. On the way to Australia, she returned to Hong Kong at the end of November to conduct a few concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. We managed to catch up with her.