Building on the achievements of a year, the "Institute of Imagination" brings new resources and creative opportunities to the performing arts community, showcasing greater possibilities. The initiative aims to recruit more innovative artists with potential, funding experimental projects that are still in the trial phase and seeking to break conventional boundaries. It will gather and display the results of these experiments, allowing for better development of future works.

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We would like to thank the jury members—Feng Mei-hua, Dr William Lai, Wilfred Wong, Yan Pat-to, Yang Yang, and Melissa Leung —for their participation and contributions. After nearly a month of project submissions, the jury selected three applicant teams for a staged presentation in January 2024.

A one-on-one encounter, brewing, with a promise to meet again in six months for a shared drink in the mountains.

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This event offers an intimate conversation with artists while brewing wine, with a plan to reconvene in the hills to experience local agriculture and the stories of the God of Wine. In a small room, you may meet drummers who explore the depths of the soul, theatre directors focused on physical training, costume designers with a keen eye for human anatomy, musicians collecting natural sounds, or theatre directors who specialize in dreaming—all eager to share their artistic experiences and lives. You are also invited to bring a story to exchange and join in the brewing process.

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In an era where smiles are fading and indifference is growing, “One Person, Brewing Wine” seeks to explore how to establish the most intimate artistic exchanges. Six months later, we will reconvene at “The Hidden God of Wine in the Mountains,” where we will share the forgotten agricultural stories of Hong Kong during the journey up the mountain. Together, we will participate in the most primal form of theatre at the God of Wine party: nature, drumming, campfires, tasting wine, and enjoying performances. What else is needed for theatre to transition from intimate exchanges to celebration? As a member of this theatre, simply bring your own story and the wine we brew together, and enjoy the purity of the experience.

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That year, Sheung suddenly felt overwhelming fear of the city and locked herself at home for two weeks. She was introduced to move to an organic farming farm, but the wound still could not heal. Meanwhile, Mike, whom she was in love with, suddenly left for Berlin but continued to maintain an ambiguous relationship with her. She tried to find the cold air to heal the inner trauma in the unfamiliar fields and land.

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After Stream of Consciousness, Reframe Theatre creates a new mode of experience theatre, so that the audience can be immersed in a time that is lonely but free, beautiful and thought-provoking.

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The entire programme is designed to be in different locations in The Mills. The participants will navigate the journey on their own. There are no live performers or restrictions. The entire programme is designed to be in different locations in The Mills. The participants will navigate the journey on their own. There are no live performers or restrictions. Participants will receive a booklet at the starting point and be guided through Sheung’s world as passers-by through music, video and text.

A proposition for how to begin again. To meet distance and difference with curiosity.  Nested at the center of an empty space is a small table bisected by glass. You sit at the table, opposite a stranger, with a stack of notecards and a set of instructions to guide you. What will come from this private piece of theater? Everything we need is already here, just you and me.

A THOUSAND WAYS (PART TWO): AN ENCOUNTER is your chance to reconsider what you think you know about a person – including yourself. This elucidating experience is the second installment in a triptych that explores the lines between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity. 

Tour guided by voices of our community walked through three occasions of pandemic in time “A Minute Something Else Enters” 

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Assemble point: Common Core Office, The University of Hong Kong All of a sudden, we can only count. Three times. The number of epidemics that tried to devastate our city in the last hundred years. For the survival of the fittest, citizens' lives, habits, and emotions are inevitably changing. We will rediscover the wisdom and humanities from an immersive community theatre in our time travel, exploring the hundred years of sorrows through the soundscapes and cityscapes of HKU and the nearby Western District.

I’m not waiting for you.

In prison, time is at once transitory and eternal….resurfacing as memories for the future. In the 1980s, two women were imprisoned in Victoria Prison, where they experienced an unexpected romance in confinement. Their growing affections for each other were interrupted as one was released while the other wrote a love poem of longing on her bed board. When released from prison, she discovered that her lover had already married. She suppressed her mishmash of feelings and started a family as well. Approaching 1997, she did not want to live in a bigger prison. The decision to immigrate prompted a final rendezvous and conversation in which deep feelings were cast aside but never forgotten. Inspired by a bed board with a love poem found in a women’s prison, this groundbreaking immersive production features artists across disciplines, including Pat To Yan (theatre), Kingsley Ng (media installation), Adrian Yeung (video artist), Jass Leung (dramaturg) and Chow Yiu Fai (lyric artist). The immersive theatre will be remade in Tai Kwun, as lyrics, sounds, images and theatrical performances are interwoven, leading the audience to tread a path that explores Central then and now.

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*Concept of the show title by〈黑房〉, Chow Yiu Fai

Shattered shop windows and broken-down vehicles are everywhere.  The citizens are forbidden to leave their homes now, for important reasons.  However, two groups remain on the street: the couriers, who risk their lives to deliver food and materials, and the inspectors, who check the live animals they come across.  And those “shadows” are stuck in “The Magic Barrier”. 

Three ladies who studied the performing arts in Taiwan adopt three cats.  But after leaving home because of the life-threatening situation, the three humans lose contact with their lovely cats.  Noticing that all the clues seem to point towards “Too Purple”, a mysterious and diabolical site, the three cats start their journey to that haunted and eerie place to rescue their dearest comrades.

a participatory performance about self-broadcast and mediated intimacy Damu, Prague, 9 June 2019

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What is 直播 (online self-broadcast)?

It is a way to livestream intimacy to numerous people via your camera.

But can it really live up to its promise?

We invite you find out together.

It’s an immersive theatre inside a Hong Kong heritage which is also a mini cultural cluster. Audience gather at the gallery of Fringe Club first. Two characters: Conscious 1 & Conscious 2 speak about our conscious state. And then audience are free to wander and discover inside the building. Discoveries include: Three monologues delivered by three performers: Ben (at Dairy Jazz bar); Christina (at Upstairs Theatre, but in darkness) & Space (at Rooftop with the ocean of white balloons). A narrow corridor of boxes; in each box, Ben and Christina has something to say, both consciously and unconsciously. Twelve golden plates emitting sounds of Ben and Christina’s stories. A meditative space of light, water and shadow. Audience may then find the story behind: Ben and Christina met at Fringe Club in 1984. But Christina wanted to continue her career as a performer in London so they broke up. The whole space was full of their lifetime episodes during 1984-2018. Finally, audience gathered at the Vault café to watch a video which recorded the sweetest moment of Ben and Christina.

Somewhere Out There, no doubt is a milestone of Mobius Strip Theatre after 10 years . This production as commissioned by The National Theatre of Taiwan, successfully transformed Banqiao 435 Art Zone into a magical experience to the audience. It is us in the contemporary pay tribute to August Strindberg 's〈Dream Play〉in the site -specific and immersive theatre experience.

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Adapted from Strindberg's ‘Dream Drama’, the original play tells the story of the daughter of a celestial god who comes down to the earth to see the suffering of the masses, and experiences many events that make her feel the insignificance and fragility of human beings. When she returns to the heavenly realm, the play awakens like a dream; this time, the production has been chosen to be performed at Banqiao 435 Arts Zone, where the audience will follow the footsteps of the characters in the play, experiencing a series of events, travelling through the interior and exterior scenes of the park, and shuttling between the dream and the reality like a dream traveller. ......