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Hong Kong Fringe Club revives Fringe Festival to foster East-meets-West cultural exchange
Mindfulness workshops, jazz and classical music concerts, dance and drama events to feature in 24-day Fringe Festival 2025
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The Hong Kong Fringe Club is relaunching its annual festival after a gap of 27 years.
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A new Fringe Festival will take place from January 2-25, 2025 at the non-profit arts centre under the club’s new management team, selected in December 2023 to run the club on behalf of the government, which owns the historic building it occupies – the now 111-year-old South Block of the Old Dairy Farm Depot at 2 Lower Albert Road, Central.
Giving details of the festival at a news conference on December 19, the club’s chairwoman, Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee, wife of former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying, said the festival would continue the Fringe Festival’s tradition of inclusiveness.
“We hope that the festival will promote a new generation of Hong Kong artists and Hong Kong’s position as an East-meets-West cultural exchange hub,” she said.
We chose works that are in a more finished state and also works that are more accessible … we have to take marketability into account
While the festival programme remains loyal to the open nature of international fringe festivals, a selection process was required because of the limited space and time frame, Leung added.
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