Guest speaker: Myriem Alnet

Moderated by Prof. Ashley Lee Wong 

 

Hybrid event, register to join in-person or online via Zoom:

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This event will be conducted in English. All are welcome. 

 

The Inter-Island Festival is an art and life festival that happens on the ports of Cheung Chau, Chi Ma Wan, Mui Wo, Peng Chau, linked together by the inter-island ferry route. Activities such as tours, workshops, exhibitions, performances celebrate the multiple life forms of the islands. Against the widespread conception of islands as glamorous escape places, the Festival introduces the islands as living spaces with their own cultures, histories and narratives. In this talk, Myriem, one of the co-organisers, will share about the Festival’s positioning and its anchoring into contemporary debates about islands. The sharing will also review how these attempts to visibilise and diffuse narratives from the “margins” can help the wider Hong Kong question large-scale developments. 

 

Myriem Alnet is an independent researcher and cultural organiser based in Peng Chau, Hong Kong, focusing on the topics of urban vernacular and public spaces. She experiments on ways to shift representations about spaces of the ordinary through research, cultural action and engagement with the academia. She is a co-organiser of the Inter-Island Festival in the outlying islands of Hong Kong, publishes the map-zine Islanders that investigates the ordinary condition of Peng Chau island, and runs islanders space, an experimental space on that same little flat island.

 

Ashley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

This talk is organized by the Master of Arts in Cultural Management Programme, CUHK, and supported by The Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK. 

 

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