SPARK: The Science and Art of Creativity

The following text is retrieved from CRED Communications' press release.

The countdown to Hong Kong’s first festival celebrating creativity across the arts, sciences and education, SPARK: The Science and Art of Creativity, stepped up a gear today as the British Council unveiled more details of the programme of free events and opened registration to the public. The highly anticipated Festival of Ideas, which is set to take place at Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts in Central from 18 – 20 January 2019, features more than 30 events presented by over 50 major creative and education partners from the UK and Hong Kong.

Providing a platform for cultural exchange through a carefully curated selection of interactive experiences, provocative performances, stimulating talks and other innovative happenings, SPARKwelcomesartists, scientists and academics from a variety of UK and Hong Kong institutions. These include University of the Arts London, the British Library, London Metropolitan University, the Natural History Museum, the University of Glasgow, Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong Design Centre and many more.

Events have been organised into four themes–Creative Cities, Art meets Science, Altered Realities and Future Skills–and include everything from eye-popping live science experiments and state-of-the-art multimedia workshops to an exploration of Chinese heritage sites that uses Augmented and Virtual Reality to simulate time travel.Some events will even take attendees beyond the walls of Tai Kwun, such as ‘BioBlitz’,a fun interactive scientific survey set in Hong Kong Park.

To learn more details, please visit: https://www.britishcouncil.hk/en/spark