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Holi Beach Party @ Chung Hom Kok Beach – 9 March, 2025

Ten years after its first epic visit, the Holi Colour Party returned to Chung Hom Kok Beach to celebrate the triumph of good over evil with friends old and new, great music and of course lots of vibrant colour!

Even the sun agreed poking it’s head out from among the clouds on a chilly, but invigorating, spring afternoon.

Known as the ‘Festival of Colours,’ the Holi Festival is a Hindu festival that celebrates spring’s arrival, the triumph of good over evil, and the blossoming of love!

It was a ‘bigly’ fun afternoon! Thanks to the organisers who made it all possible, and to everyone who came and picked up their rubbish to ensure that the beach was cleaner than when we arrived.

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Holi Beach Party
Date: 11am-5:30pm, 9 March, 2025
Venue: to be announced
Tickets: $tbc
More info:
Bring your own food & drinks (BYOB & BYOF allowed)
For more info email holi.beach.party@gmail.com

Rugby Week 2025

After the individual creativity of Art Week, the wonders of team creativity are on display as Rugby Week 2025 scrums down.

The traditional rugby week curtain-raiser Kowloonfest celebrates it’s twentieth-anniversary tournament!

A new addition to Hong Kong’s Rugby Week is the Hong Kong International Touch Championship 2025. Touch rugby’s increasing popularity sees a move for the tournament to ‘Rugby Week’ with the hope of attracting new players and more fans. At last years

The best ‘rugby’ of the week, the Hong Kong 10s at Hong Kong Football Club, proper scrums and brutal power forward play are features of the Tens – especially on Thursday night. It’s perhaps the closest we in Hong Kong can get to seeing modern rugby up close and personal. Select teams packed with talent and big names, new and old, from around the world bring a physicality and rawness to the rugby images seen on television that really needs to be experienced in person.

Amidst the Sevens partying, a rugby tournament takes place… And this year it’s going to be at the new 50,000 seater Kai Tak Stadium… The main question among Sevens fans is will the move to the new stadium allow the HK Sevens to recover its allure as one of the world’s great sporting/social events? Tickets are still available, which is not a good sign…

Here are the dates for your Rugby Week 2025 diary.

Hong Kong International Touch Championship 2025
When: 23 March, 2025
Where: Happy Valley Recreation Ground
How much: tbc
More info: www.facebook.com/hktouch

Kowloon Fest – Twentieth Anniversay
When: 27 March 2025
Where: Kings Park
How much: Free
More info: www.rugbyfest.org

Hong Kong Tens
When: 26-27 March, 2025
Where: Hong Kong Football Club
How much: tbc
More info: www.hkfc10s.com

HK Sevens
HK Sevens
Date: 28-30 March 2025
Venue: Kai Tak Stadium
Tickets: $1,950
More info: www.HKsevens.com

Hong Kong Art Week 2025

The art world again focuses on Hong Kong this March with several exhibitions bringing thousands of art pieces from emerging and established artists to the SAR.

As the old cliche goes ‘one man’s art though is another’s trash’ and you’ll wonder exactly what the attraction of some pieces are – but there’s enough variety that you’ll likely find a few things to discus, enjoy and perhaps even buy.

Art Central
A contemporary art fair in the heart of Hong Kong with over 100 exhibitors showcasing the next generation of talent alongside some of the most established galleries from across Asia.

Art Central
Date: 26-30 March 2025
Venue: Central Harbourfront
Tickets: $540, $340, $260 HKTicketing
More info:
26 March: 12nn-5pm / 5-9pm
27 March: 12nn-7pm
28 March: 12nn -7pm
29 March: 11am-7pm
30 March: 11am-5pm

Art Basel
Many of the world’s leading modern and contemporary art galleries display paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, prints, photography, film, video, and digital art by over 4,000 artists.

Art Basel
Date: 27-30 March, 2025
Venue: HK Convention and Exhibition Centre
Tickets: $4,880, $1,180, $980, $990, $620, $550, $420, $350 from HKTicketing
More info:
27 March: 4-8pm
28 March: 2-8pm
29 March: 2–8pm
30 March: 12 noon–6pm

Chinese New Year Night Parade 2025

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) annual Chinese New Year Night Parade lit up the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui to celebrate the first day of the Year of the Snake.

The, Unfold a Year of Good Fortune, themed parade featured nine floats and 46 performing groups representing 14 countries: including K-pop girl band, Kep1er, and Thai boyband, LYKN.

Find out more events to celebrate the start of the Year of the Snake at the HKTB Guide to Chinese New Year in Hong Kong website.

International Chinese New Year Night Parade 2025
Date: 8pm, 29 January, 2025
Venue: Tsim Sha Tsui
Tickets: Free

Hong Kong New Year Countdown 2024-25

The Hong Kong New Year Countdown fireworks display, organised by the HKTB, welcomed in New Year with a “Symphony of Happiness” theme that offered blessings for 2025 by revealing the myriad states and stages of the five natural elements – metal, wood, water, fire and earth – over Victoria Harbour.

New Year’s Eve Fireworks
Date: Midnight, 31 December, 2024
Venue: Victoria Harbour
Tickets: Free

photos: HKTB

Happy New Year!

All of us at bc magazine would like to wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2025!

image: HK Tourism

USMEF Great American BBQ 2024

An idyllic autumn Hong Kong evening played host to this year’s USMEF Great American BBQ at the Kowloon Cricket Club on 29 November 2024.

Hosted and sponsored by the Texas Beef Council, USMEF and USDA, the BBQ promotes and showcases US beef and Hong Kong’s talented chefs. There’s beef cooked straight, smoked, dry-aged, Tawan hotpot style, burgers, and sausages to name a few of the different ways… A feast for the taste buds!

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