It has been three wild and woolly years since Ang Song Ming‘s “Guilty Pleasures” listening party and Yang Fudong‘s 23-meter-long installation “The Fifth Night” kicked off Spring Workshop’s public programs. And here we are now, 100+ events later, a started-from-scratch non-profit artspace that sprang to life as a love letter to the artists, organisations and audiences of Hong Kong…and which has now welcomed over 8,000 visitors and participants.  And we are still in love with you!

To deepen our affair with all of you who enliven our arts landscape, we are bringing the extraordinary Christina Li back to her home town as our new director. Her autumn program is a pointed inquiry into the nuances and politics mired in the hospitality that is a key part of Spring’s vision, and welcomes six artists, five of whom have never set foot in this city, to participate in a series of events that draw attention to the ways and forms in which the roles of host and guest are enacted.  After a set of summer guests that included Eisa Jocson (Para Site), Sabih Ahmed, Alec Steadman, Vinod Velayudhan and Zhuang Wubin (AAA), this fall we welcome back Wu Tsang to her second three-month residency, as well as AAA’s guests Slavs and Tatars.

Meanwhile, to mark the end of HK Farm‘s one-year residency in August, Michael, Glenn and Anthony have put together a crack team of over dozen urban farming practitioners and experts to create The HK FARMers’ Almanac, and asked artist/writer Elaine W. Ho to edit it. Elaine starts the project off with Hannah Arendt’s statement that revolution is about restoring a modality, just in a new time and with new sensitivities. If you come for our open happy hour sessions during the three-day almanac-creation sprint, we’ll show you what the edge of the revolution looks like.

Finally, if your green thumb has been aching for a little bit of earth in your home or office, we have a solution for you. As HK Farm completes their residency, the planters full of basil, tomatoes, mint, rosemary and other leafy green stuff will be distributed into the community as a farm diaspora. Let us know if we should brand your name onto one of the wooden planters. Then you can keep HK Farm’s gentle tendrils wrapped around your hearts and fingers, just as we will at Spring.