Music & Movie - Hobby

With only 24 hours a day, how would you allocate your time to life, work, entertainment, and rest? The eslite bookstore (Causeway Bay) at Hysan Place is the first store outside of the Xinyi Bookstore in Taiwan to host the “Read 24x24 Hours” event.

Creativity knows no time, regional, or geographical restrictions. Different people engage varying parts of the brain during the day, for instance, focused thinking in the morning for planning detailed proposals and diffuse thinking in the evening for creative excursions, or vice versa. There’s simply no one-size-fits-all formula when it comes to creative thinking.

This season, Hong Kong-based techwear label ARCHIVAL REINVENT is joining hands with Japanese streetwear brand #FR2 and Hong Kong’s trend concept store POPCORN Supply to present the #FR2 x ARC collection.

“What makes listening to music fun is its mystery. You get a loose grasp on what story the music is conveying at a young age, only to fully understand the full intended message behind a few years later.” Masa, Mayday

Moving according to the beat, freestyle dancers improvise on the spot to create a flow of dance moves that vary in feel and intensity. Each time, their impromptu moves spark off a new rhythm, enticing the audience with their everchanging and unpredictable interpretation of the music. In that sense, freestyle is not dissimilar to polishing a piece of artwork, where dancers emote unreservedly their first thoughts and feelings the moment when the music starts playing.

Despite being a tiny dot on the world's map, Hong Kong is brimming with stunning architecture, mesmerising sceneries, and unique local culture, as if a living and breathing large-scale movie set. In addition to providing backdrops for local film productions, the city has been featured in numerous overseas films and drama series, with landscapes across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories appearing on the big screen. Let us take a stroll through some of the most famous filming locations.

This year, Hysan has gone a step further by inviting world-renowned skateboarding star Lucien Clarke from the UK to be the honoured guest at the opening event of “Urban Park.” Furthermore, Hysan Place is now the first stop on the “GOING PLACES” global tour, with pop-up stores to spring up worldwide in 2023.

There is no better time than Christmas to work with like-minded creatives – and this year Lee Gardens collaborates with Amigo & Amigo to debut a range of light-art-music installations in Hong Kong.

Millennial B-Boy Think, who represented Hong Kong in the 2022 Paris National Breaking Championships, is one of the elite local breakdancers. Over the past years, B-Boy Think has received numerous awards from local and overseas breakdancing competitions, ranking first during the local qualifiers for the Olympics in 2021 and 2022

Lee Gardens always offers a scenery different from the hustle and bustle in Causeway Bay. Recently there are two newly-opened stores in Lee Gardens, namely Leather Healer on Kai Chiu Road and Sunsmith on Yun Ping Road.