20 February 2024 Chinese New Year Reception 2024
The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels, with the support of BHKS, hosted the annual Chinese New Year reception in Brussels, Belgium on 20 February 2024.
The reception attracted some 250 guests from officials of the European institutions, national governments, diplomatic missions, as well as senior representatives from trade and business, academia, arts and cultural sectors, media and also the Chinese community.
The opportunity was also taken to invite various Hong Kong artists to the reception to showcase their talents and to underline Hong Kong's efforts to nurture local artists in pursuit of developing Hong Kong into an international arts and cultural hub. They included a pop-up drawing exhibition of Hong Kong comics artist, Pen So, called Wanderers' Land - Cityscapes in Hong Kong; and a dragon-themed, action-packed dance performance Convergence: MovINK Dragon, which was a crossover of comics, animation and Chinese kung fu, delivered by Hong Kong dance group TS Crew. Both the drawing exhibtion and the dance performance were curated by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Comix Home Base).
