multi-arts
"So FAR, So…"
Presented by Ivanhoe Lam
2025.01.25 - 2025.01.26
2025.01.25 (Sat) 3pm
2025.01.26 (Sun) 4pm & 8:30pm
2025.01.26 (Sun) 4pm & 8:30pm
turns
$220
Tickets are available for purchase from 2025.01.02 at art-mate.
Concessionary tickets of $110 are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (limited tickets available on a first come, first served basis). Concessionary tickets are only available for Work-in-progress Presentation & Conversations.
Package Discount:
- Purchasing 1 Work-in-progress Presentation & 1 Conversation ($240)
- Purchasing 1 Work-in-progress Presentation & 1 Conversation & 1 Workshop ($340)
- If patron purchase one of the above package, patron can purchase other conversations with $50 in the same transaction
Internet Booking: https://www.art-mate.net/doc/80267
- The programme runs approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission.
- Free seating.
- Suitable for age 6 or above.
- Audience are advised to arrive punctually. No latecomers will be admitted.
- Programme Enquiries: 6508 9771
So FAR, So… (Work-in-progress Presentation)
Inspired by Simon Stephens’s Song From Far Away, the Creative Director Ivanhoe Lam leads the team to respond to the seven letters in the play as a work-in-progress presentation, in preparation for the full production in January 2026.
Song From Far Away is a personal letter from those left behind. It is a journey back home – to estranged family and forgotten relationships. As the main character reflects on his life, unwilling to face the future, he finds himself reaching out to the brother he lost.
This preliminary theatrical exploration seeks to grapple with the limits of letter writing and to consider channels of communication which might cross beyond our living world.
So FAR, So… is one of the “Unbox EKCC” trial programmes of the East Kowloon Cultural Centre
Ivanhoe Lam is the Artist-in-Residence of East Kowloon Cultural Centre
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Ivanhoe Lam is the Artist-in-Residence of East Kowloon Cultural Centre
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Conversations
Before the work-in-progress presentation, Ivanhoe Lam invites guests to explore themes of life and death from different perspectives and backgrounds, guiding the audience to expand their imaginative experience of the performance.
Moderator: Leung Hiu Tuen Melissa, Ivanhoe Lam
| Date & Time: | 2025.01.25 (Sat) 5:00pm |
| Guest: | Chu Pak Hong (Film & Stage Actor) |
| Date & Time: | 2025.1.26 (Sun) 2:00pm |
| Guest: | Winsome Lee (Forensic Anthropologist) |
| Date & Time: | 2025.1.26 (Sun) 7:00pm |
| Guest: | Edmond Poon (Host of a popular radio show about the paranormal) |
| Duration: | Around 1 hour |
| Venue: | The Turns, East Kowloon Cultural Centre |
| Fee: | $100 (Buy Ticket) |
| Remarks: | Recommended for ages 6 or above In Cantonese |
Workshop
| Date & Time: | 2025.1.25 (Sat) 11:00am - 12:30pm |
| Hosts: | Santayana Li, Lim Wei Wei |
| Duration: | Around 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Venue: | Incubator 1, East Kowloon Cultural Centre |
| Fee: | $200 (Buy Ticket) |
| Remarks: | Recommended for ages 15 or above In Cantonese |
| Creative Director: | Ivanhoe Lam |
| Translation/ Adaptation/ Associate Director: | Santayana Li |
| Creative Writing: | Kent Foran |
| Dramaturgy/ Performing Coaching: | Melissa Leung Hiu Tuen + |
| Movement Coaching/ Rehearsal Mistress: | Lim Wei Wei |
| Multimedia Video Design: | Dan Fong * |
| Cinematography: | Ziv Chun |
| Electronic Music/ Performance: | hirsk | ( aka Khris Nung ) |
| Choral Conducting: | Sanders Lau ^ |
| Loop station/ Performance: | Duncan Wong |
| Sound Design: | Candog Ha |
| Lighting Design: | Billy Chan * |
| Stage Design: | Jonathan Wong * |
| Image Design: | Kary Kwok |
| Devising Performance: | Leung Tin Chak, Sanders Lau^, Carmen Bat^, Rachel Kwok^, Caleb Woo^, Kenix Tsang^, Grace Leung^ |
| Producers: | Jamie Wu、Eva Chau |
| Production Manager: | Eva Chau |
| Technical Director: | Jit Lam* |
| Stage Manager/ Deputy Stage Manager: | Vivia Ho |
* With kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
+ With kind permission of the City Contemporary Dance Company
^ From NOĒMA
So FAR, So… (Work-in-progress Presentation)
Inspired by Simon Stephens’s Song From Far Away, the Creative Director Ivanhoe Lam leads the team to respond to the seven letters in the play as a work-in-progress presentation, in preparation for the full production in January 2026.
Song From Far Away is a personal letter from those left behind. It is a journey back home – to estranged family and forgotten relationships. As the main character reflects on his life, unwilling to face the future, he finds himself reaching out to the brother he lost.
This preliminary theatrical exploration seeks to grapple with the limits of letter writing and to consider channels of communication which might cross beyond our living world.
So FAR, So… is one of the “Unbox EKCC” trial programmes of the East Kowloon Cultural Centre
Ivanhoe Lam is the Artist-in-Residence of East Kowloon Cultural Centre
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Ivanhoe Lam is the Artist-in-Residence of East Kowloon Cultural Centre
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Conversations
Before the work-in-progress presentation, Ivanhoe Lam invites guests to explore themes of life and death from different perspectives and backgrounds, guiding the audience to expand their imaginative experience of the performance.
Moderator: Leung Hiu Tuen Melissa, Ivanhoe Lam
| Date & Time: | 2025.01.25 (Sat) 5:00pm |
| Guest: | Chu Pak Hong (Film & Stage Actor) |
| Date & Time: | 2025.1.26 (Sun) 2:00pm |
| Guest: | Winsome Lee (Forensic Anthropologist) |
| Date & Time: | 2025.1.26 (Sun) 7:00pm |
| Guest: | Edmond Poon (Host of a popular radio show about the paranormal) |
| Duration: | Around 1 hour |
| Venue: | The Turns, East Kowloon Cultural Centre |
| Fee: | $100 (Buy Ticket) |
| Remarks: | Recommended for ages 6 or above In Cantonese |
Workshop
| Date & Time: | 2025.1.25 (Sat) 11:00am - 12:30pm |
| Hosts: | Santayana Li, Lim Wei Wei |
| Duration: | Around 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Venue: | Incubator 1, East Kowloon Cultural Centre |
| Fee: | $200 (Buy Ticket) |
| Remarks: | Recommended for ages 15 or above In Cantonese |
| Creative Director: | Ivanhoe Lam |
| Translation/ Adaptation/ Associate Director: | Santayana Li |
| Creative Writing: | Kent Foran |
| Dramaturgy/ Performing Coaching: | Melissa Leung Hiu Tuen + |
| Movement Coaching/ Rehearsal Mistress: | Lim Wei Wei |
| Multimedia Video Design: | Dan Fong * |
| Cinematography: | Ziv Chun |
| Electronic Music/ Performance: | hirsk | ( aka Khris Nung ) |
| Choral Conducting: | Sanders Lau ^ |
| Loop station/ Performance: | Duncan Wong |
| Sound Design: | Candog Ha |
| Lighting Design: | Billy Chan * |
| Stage Design: | Jonathan Wong * |
| Image Design: | Kary Kwok |
| Devising Performance: | Leung Tin Chak, Sanders Lau^, Carmen Bat^, Rachel Kwok^, Caleb Woo^, Kenix Tsang^, Grace Leung^ |
| Producers: | Jamie Wu、Eva Chau |
| Production Manager: | Eva Chau |
| Technical Director: | Jit Lam* |
| Stage Manager/ Deputy Stage Manager: | Vivia Ho |
* With kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
+ With kind permission of the City Contemporary Dance Company
^ From NOĒMA