Clockenflap
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| Clockenflap | |
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| Genre | Multimedia, music, Indie rock, film, installation art, Electronic music |
| Dates | 3–5 March 2023 |
| Locations | Cyberport, Hong Kong; West Kowloon, Hong Kong; Central, Hong Kong |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Founders | Jay Forster, Mike Hill, Justin Sweeting |
| Website | www |
Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival, commonly abbreviated to "Clockenflap", is an annual music and arts festival held in Hong Kong. It incorporates international, regional and local live music, film, art installations, street, and kids' area. 60,000 people attended the 2015 event, which was widely considered HK's marquee music event of the year.
Clockenflap was founded in 2008 and is organized by Jay Forster, Mike Hill and Justin Sweeting. Their stated goals for the festival are to nurture the Hong Kong arts, music and film scene[1] and "put the city on Asia's contemporary media-arts circuit".[2] The NME credits Clockenflap for the "pioneering role it has played in nurturing the Hongkong indie and alternative music scenes, as well as bringing International talent to Hongkong audiences".[3]
The first Clockenflap festival was held in a concrete public space in an empty housing development called "Cyberport", in front of 1500 attendees.[4] It later expanded to the West Kowloon Cultural District.
