Cheung Chau Wave 浪長洲 is a non-profit community project run by a bunch of creative volunteers who believe the island would benefit from a platform that promotes local art and culture and the people behind it. A key component is to foster artistic exchange and dialogue between locals and to invite outsiders to share in this. Going into its third annual event in the form of an arts festival, Cheung C
hau Wave 浪長洲 aims to echo the unique, alternative and independent spirit that exists on the island.
「浪長洲」藝術節由一伙來自創意藝術行業背景的長洲居民義務發起，希望在長洲建立一個為島上藝術家、文化傳承者的交流平台。「浪長洲」以各種形式促進島上居民間和外界的藝術和文化交流。今年，我們以藝術節的形式，把島上獨特、另類和人文精神讓更多的人接觸。
Festival Vision 藝術節使命與願景
Cheung Chau, known as the “long island” is located 10 km southwest of Hong Kong Island, just a little dot in the South China Sea. Habited longer than any other island in the region, it harbours an incredible wealth of culture, history and traditions. Built by street traders and fishermen/women, who through performance, song and linguistic expletives, plied their trade and created the atmosphere we all fall in love with when stepping off the ferry. It is an island bursting with festivals and fishing, once a place for farming and manufacturing, a history of piracy and smuggling and now a spot tourists flock to for fishballs and mango moji. This context led many artists, art administrators, poets, intellectuals, musicians, writers and other creatives to settle on the island and share within the vibrant community.
長洲，一個位於香港島西南10公里的海島。雖然只是在南中國海圖上很小的一點，但該區亦是人類集居歷史最悠久的其中一個小島，擁有非常豐富及特別的人文生態丶文化丶歷史及漁民傳統。 短暫遠離市區，踏出碼頭就會愛上這個還保留傳統文化的小島。不論的盜歷史或者新起的魚蛋芒果糯米糍，都是給藝術家、藝術行政、詩人、音樂家、作家等等無限的創作靈感。
Cheung Chau Wave reflects this alternative working and living mode in relation to Hong Kong the city and contemporized existence. Maybe we can learn something by looking toward village life and island trade as a format and approach for an arts festival? In accordance with this we choose to primarily approach local businesses for financial support, trying to “keep things on the island."
與香港島和現代化的城市生活對比，長洲的生活狀態就是「浪長洲」藝術節希望呈現的。整個活動支出都是以島上商店和居民中籌款而來，這是一個真真正正屬於長洲的藝術節。
Started in 2015 by local residents, this community initiative wishes to highlight and share the creative, cultural and intellectual work made by its inhabitants. Bringing people together with a common interest in all things creative and open to all art forms and cultural expressions. Cheung Chau Wave hopes to become an established and sustainable community festival primarily, and secondly to create events that expose outsiders to go “off the beaten [tourist] track” and straight into the true heart of the island.
始於2015年，每年以各種藝術創意形式把島民和島外居民聚集在一起。「浪長洲」藝術節旨在成為一個持續性的社區盛事，並讓更多島外的人欣賞非商業化的長洲一面。
Like Cheung Chau and its people we are ad hoc and decentralised, at mercy to the elements, highly resourceful and adaptable and slowly threading ourselves into the ongoing fabric woven by the island. We wish to celebrate the artists raised on its shores and those new explorers called to it and indeed to celebrate all aspects of living on this little dot in the South China Sea.
一直以來，長洲和島上的居民面對著各種變化，而這些都是在慢慢的編織著長洲文化。「浪長洲」藝術節就是要展現土生土長的長洲藝術家和受長洲文化影響的藝術家的作品。
