Now in its fourth year, Chai Wan Mei Art & Design Festival, Hong Kong’s celebration of the arts, will open to the public on 14 and 15 March with 30+ participating spaces. Entry is free of charge. Taking place during Hong Kong’s annual Art Week and coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, Chai Wan Mei invites Hong Kongers and visitor to explore, learn, shop and eat. This year’s vibrant programme includes guerrilla art installations, performances, pop-up exhibitions, workshops and much more. What to see and do There are over 45 activities to see, learn and engage with over the weekend. Here are some of the highlights: Art Programme curated by Inti Guerrero Hong Kong-based Guerrero presents ‘Videos and words from a Post-Industrial City’, featuring a series of rogue art installations by established and rising local and international artists. Based on the Chai Wan industrial area, the video-curated-show consists of 10 powerful video pieces and five neon-text-based works. Each video is shown on an individual screen, with the 10 screens placed strategically around the industrial city venue. Artists include Carlos Amorales (MEX), Cao Fei (CH), Liu Chuang (CH) and Kacey Wong (HK) among others. Performance Programme curated by WING Platform Focusing on books and storytelling through performances and special events, the story is seen as a vivid encounter between performer and spectator. Visitors will be engaged in different narratives going from ancient myths and fables to science fiction and personal stories. The site-specific character of the festival re-negotiates the relationship between performer and audience, between author and reader. Artists include Scarlet Yu, Elysa Wendi, Yu-Chen Wang, Caroline Ha Tuc and Didier Faustino. Screening Programme composited by Hitomi Hasegawa Titled ‘Immediacy’ –in reference to today’s media culture and using moving images of artists from Japan and Hong Kong, the programme evolves around the concept of immediacy. The screening examines the speed and fast pace of life in Hong Kong and China now, examines immediacy in the artists’ moving images though a historical and aesthetical lens and how contemporary artists perceive immediate media such as TV and the internet. There are selected works by Masanobu Nishino, Map Office, Adrian Wong, Hikaru Suzuki and Li Xiaofei. Exhibitions ‘Fortune’ with Cheung Yee and ‘Forever Young’ with Hai Tien by AO Vertical Art Space ‘Black and White Cats’ featuring Huang Rui and Wang Keping by 10 Chancery Lane Art Projects ‘Dear, Why Freedom?’ with Jin Shan and Sun Yuan and Peng Yu by Platform China HK Group show ‘She has a gloomy dream’ with works by six Hong Kong artists by Carol Lee studio ‘Erosion’, a library of 500 unique porcelain vessels questioning the role of the designer by letting nature become an active agent of the design process by Latitude 22N Workshops Insight School of Interior Design: learn how to display works of art in your home with tutors from the only dedicated Interior Design School in Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers: learn how to use the latest photography equipment and gain insight from professional photographers as they showcase their works Youth Square Printing Art Gallery: a series of printing workshops discusses the history of the letterpress with art DIY sessions 地點 柴灣裡不同地點；詢問處設於柴灣永泰道60號柴灣工業城一期 交通 免費來回穿梭巴士每三十分鐘於灣仔 (巴塞爾藝術展，香港會議展覽中心博覽道入口) 開出； 星期日下午二時至五時 回程將設有中途站於 Para Site (鰂魚涌)