Since its founding in 1983, the annual Fringe Festival,modeled after the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, has offered an uncensored open platform for all visual and performance art.. The annual festival was reworked in 1999 to promote urban culture featuring local and international shows and exhibitions. These encompass a wide range of arts disciplines: music, dance, theatre, comedy, the visual arts, film, literature, multi-media, fashion and even food. In 2004 the festival was renamed the City Fringe Festival, and usually takes place at the beginning of the year.

·The Asia Art Archive
Founded in 2000, the Asia Art Archive is the first centre in Hong Kong dedicated to the documentation of and cataloguing materials related to contemporary Asian art for public access through its library, online database and website. Free of charge..

 Hong Kong Films

The Hong Kong film industry experienced a peak of popularity with its popular studio shows in the 1970s, followed by the rise of the "new wave" in the 1980s. During this period cutting-edge maverick directors including Tsui Hark, Patrick Tam, Ann Hui On-Wah, Alex Cheung Siuhing, and Yim Ho challenged the supremacy of Hong Kong's mainstream crowd-pleaser films.

Right after the "New Wave", another storm swept the Hong Kong film community. While China and the UK were negotiating the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, Hong Kong filmmakers wondered how the political changeover would affect Hong Kong cinema.

During this time of political uncertainty some filmmakers produced movies reflecting Hong Kong's identity crisis. Examples include Swordman, Kiki's Delivery Service, Made in Hong Kong, and Comrades, Almost a Love Story, respectively directed by Tsui Hark, Hayao Miyazaki, Fruit Chan, and Peter Chan.

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