Standard Chartered’s youth-centered outdoor arts festival returns this year themed after Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale Around the World in Eighty Days. Over the weekend of November 30, Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and other characters from the novel will transform Causeway Bay into an artsy adventure destination.
Apart from creative arts booths, non-stop live performances with over 70 groups, African drum workshops, live storytelling, and the display of over 1,000 pieces of artwork, the two-day festival will also feature a fantastical puppet parade. On December 1, 10 four-metre puppets and hundreds of young people will set off from Victoria Park, making their way along Great George Street and past Sogo, before looping back to East Point Road. Look out for the giant Phileas Fogg puppet created by local artist Jimmy Hsieh – it’s been interestingly done in a steampunk style featuring cogs and clocks on its suit.