The Works：HKAF Special: Bavarian State Ballet II, jazz drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington & "Typography

We’re about half way through the 45th annual Hong Kong Arts Festival, which opened just two weeks ago. And whatever your taste in performing arts, there’s been, and will be, plenty to see. You have 129 dance, music, or drama shows to choose from, featuring more than 1,600 international and local artists. Based in Munich, Germany, the Bavarian State Ballet opened at this year’s Arts Festival with a Russian classic set in India, and not seen in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, “La Bayadere”. The Junior Company of the Bavarian State Ballet, the Bavarian State Ballet II, was also here. They performed a programme of four more recent pieces. And three-time Grammy award jazz drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington is probably best known as a drummer, but she’s also a composer, singer and record producer. She’ll be talking to us about “Mosaic Project: Love and Soul”.
If there’s one thing that tourists who visit Hong Kong almost certainly photograph it’s our array of brightly coloured street signs. For visitors, as for many locals, business signs moulded in plastic, written by hand, or created to neon, are an integral and intriguing part of the cityscape. Inevitably the forms of our street signs reflect our urban and cultural development. They may also reflect that our lives are becoming blander, as our streets become more homogenous. The exhibition “Typography and the Sea of Words” organised by the Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage at Sai Ying Pun, focuses on the changing signs of our times.