Freespace Fest

Freespace Fest is an outdoor arts festival held in West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is an International Finance Centre and a profits-oriented city, people are seldom aware of the importance of arts and culture.

Freespace Fest provides a platform where artists can display their talent while audiences appreciate them and do their own activities in the spaces offered.

It also provides an opportunity to Hong Kong people to relax and enjoy the amusement of cultures and arts.

To express their dissatisfaction towards this, there were Facebook Pages set up, such as "Hacking Freespace Fest: 9 play!” which protested against the admission fee.

Finally, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority decided to go back to free admission.

In Freespace Fest 2014, an interactive outdoor show “M.U.R.S.” by La Fura Dels Baus from Spain was added to the festival by the organiser.

‘Grasscamp’ at Freespace: In Free Space Fest 2014, participants of the event were invited to camp in the West Kowloon Promenade area.

As the government is actively arousing the importance of arts to the citizens, this event has a foreseeable future in Hong Kong.

Hanicraft market alone the promenade
Music performance in Freespace Fest 2014
Music stage for Freespace Fest