about us
Hong Kong Arts Net UK is a community platform for artists, creatives and cultural practitioners across the UK who are rooted in or connected to Hong Kong’s creative and cultural life.
We call it the Hub — a shared space to find one another, exchange knowledge and opportunities, share creative work and build new connections, online and in person.
As Hongkonger creatives continue to build lives and practices across the UK, we want the Hub to grow with the community: shaped by the people, experience, skills and creativity already here.
Our vision is simple: for Hongkonger creatives to thrive in and enrich the cultural landscape of the UK and beyond.
What we are here for
The Hub is about connection, exchange and mutual support.
We want to help people meet, share experience, develop their practice, find opportunities and create new collaborations. We also create space to explore and reimagine Hongkonger identity and cultural heritage — not as something fixed, but something living and continuing to evolve.
And we look outward, building bridges between Hongkonger creatives and audiences, communities and the wider UK cultural sector.
Through all of this, we hope to strengthen:
Wellbeing · Connectivity · Creativity · Visibility
From the hub to the festival
The Hub is also part of a longer journey.
As relationships, ideas and collaborations grow through Hong Kong Arts Net UK, they will contribute to the development of Hong Kong Arts Fest UK — a festival taking place every two years, creating a platform for sharing Hongkonger creative work with wider audiences through performances, exhibitions, screenings, conversations and collaborations.
The Hub builds the connections. The Festival creates another space for those connections and ideas to be seen, shared and developed.
Steering Committee
Hong Kong Arts Net UK is supported by our Steering Committee, bringing together different perspectives and experience across arts, culture, community and organisational development.
Harry Cheung
I have always been drawn to seeing what needs to happen, then driven to find a way to make it real. That instinct has shaped my life, from theatre and television to projects I initiate today. I began as a theatre producer in Hong Kong before moving to the UK over three decades ago, and London has been home ever since. For many years, I was Head of Programme and Production at The Chinese Channel, where my work included stories from diaspora communities across Europe. More recently, I founded Hong Kong Arts UK CIC and created the theatre series Hong Kong Stories • UK Stages 2025, bringing work by Hong Kong theatremakers to audiences in London and Manchester and giving those voices space to be heard. What stays with me is the possibility that when people come together around an idea, something unexpected can begin. I hope to keep creating spaces where people can meet, imagine and make things possible together.
Stella Fong
Stella Fong is a museum learning and curatorial professional with nearly three decades of experience connecting people, objects, ideas and communities. Originally from Hong Kong and now based in London, she works at the Design Museum, following more than a decade at M+, where she helped shape learning and interpretation from its early development. Moving from Hong Kong to the UK has made Stella reflect more deeply on migration, identity and belonging — what we carry with us, what changes, and how we find our place in a new home. It has also strengthened her belief in lifelong learning: as a way to learn from one another, exchange ideas and cultures, build confidence and grow together. For Stella, learning is about staying curious and open, have the courage to experiment, challenging habitual ways of thinking and discovering possibilities through uncertainties and change. She is interested in how creativity and learning can bring people together, build connections and help us thrive in an ever-changing world.
Indy Lee
My theatre journey began in the 1990s, exploring how theatre can bring people together through stories, imagination, and shared experience. Professionally trained at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and later in Applied Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, I have worked across directing, performing, teaching, cultural exchange, and community engagement. My Hong Kong background has shaped a perspective that goes far beyond a simple East-meets-West narrative, informing a practice rooted in dialogue, curiosity, and human connection. I work with what I call the director's mind: bringing people together around a shared vision, helping performers discover possibilities they may not yet see in themselves, and crafting stories that speak to audiences. Whether in a theatre, classroom, institution, or community setting, I am interested in creating spaces where people can encounter theatre as a way of understanding themselves, others, and the world around them. Solo performance is an important strand of my practice. It reflects my belief that meaningful art work can be created with the simplest resources: a performer, a story, and an audience. People, stories, and community remain at the heart of everything I do. As a former Council Member and Chairman of the Drama Group of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, I advocated for theatre artists and cultural development. Now based in the UK, I teach theatre, work in schools and communities, practise Judo and Aikido, and enjoy cooking Indian food and brewing coffee.
Benjamin Sin
I am a collector of stories. All my life, I have listened to, and told, the stories of people whose voices are too often unheard. As a community development worker, I stood alongside people facing the housing crisis and those from working-class communities, cultivating movements for social equity and change. I have authored two oral history collections and was honoured with the Hong Kong Book Prize. Along the way, I have had the privilege of working with creatives, architects, health professionals and people from many disciplines, weaving together hope, renewing narratives and creating lasting impact. In 2024, I moved to London and became a social worker, often finding myself sitting beside a hospital bed. Perhaps it is there, in the quiet spaces between life and death, that I have come to understand more deeply how precious and brief life is. The search for meaning may be the only anchor we have. So let us step into the same boat and sail towards uncharted seas, singing, dancing, creating, and leaving no room for regret.
Janet Tam
Most people know me as an arts administrator, working behind the scenes to support artists and organisations around disability arts, access and inclusion. Since 2022, I’ve led Something To Aim For (STAF), supporting artists and small organisations facing intersecting barriers to build stronger, more sustainable practice, alongside freelance work across England and Scotland. Others may know me through theatre. I started making theatre in Hong Kong in the 1990s, shaped by artists whose community-engaged practice influenced how I think about art and society. I’m drawn to finding connection through creativity and storytelling. Playback Theatre became an important part of my practice, alongside original work including Two Girls from Ngau Tau Kok, rooted in my experience of growing up there. I moved to the UK at the end of 2021 and am now based in Edinburgh. Outside work, I meditate, swim, cook, and give belly rubs to my two senior cats.
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