Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival, commonly abbreviated to "Clockenflap", is an annual music and arts festival held in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. It incorporates international, regional and local live music, film, art installations, street, and kids' area. 60,000 people attended the 2015 event and was widely considered HK's marquee music event of the year.

History

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 sceneClockenflap Multimedia & Arts Festival
/ref> and "put the city on Asia's contemporary media-arts circuit". 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". The first Clockenflap festival was held in a concrete public space in an empty housing development called "Cyberport", in front of 1500 attendees. It later expanded to the West Kowloon Cultural District.

Festivals

Clockenflap 2023

Clockenflap 2023 will be held from 3 to 5 March 2023 in

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Event Space.

Clockenflap 2021

Clockenflap 2021 was cancelled due to restrictions on international travel, tightened rules and regulations on outdoor events, and a requirement for a seated audience with no food or drink consumption on site.

Clockenflap 2020

Clockenflap 2020 had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Clockenflap 2019

Clockenflap 2019 was scheduled to be held from 22 to 24 November 2019 in Central Harbourfront Event Space. The organisers cancelled the event due to the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.

Clockenflap 2018

Clockenflap 2018 was held from 9 to 11 November 2018 in

Event Space.

Clockenflap 2017

Clockenflap 2017 was held from 17 to 19 November 2017.

Clockenflap 2016

Clockenflap 2016 was held from 25 to 27 November 2016 in

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Clockenflap 2015

Clockenflap 2015 was held from 27 to 29 November 2015 in

West Kowloon Cultural District The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) is a large arts development in Hong Kong. Based on a Foster and Partners master plan and comprising , the district will eventually include 17 venues. The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera, the Freespace c ...

Clockenflap 2014

Clockenflap 2014 was held from 28 to 30 November 2014 in

Clockenflap 2013

2013's festival extended to a 3-day event and grew to over 30,000 people attending with 7 music stages with new additions of a Cabaret Tent and an Arts Village. The festival was held from 29 November to 1 December.

Clockenflap 2012

Held once more on the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, the festival site expanded to allow for six performance stages, a dedicated children's entertainment area. Over 25,000 people attended the festival over the weekend of 1 to 2 December.

Clockenflap 2011

Clockenflap 2011 took place from 10 to 11 December 2011 and was the first to be held at the festival's iconic new location, the

West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade () is a promenade running alongside Victoria Harbour on reclaimed land in Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon peninsula of Hong Kong. It opened to the public on 17September 2005. The promenade starts at the junction ...

. Unlike previous (and preceding) years, it was completely free to the public when late stage venue restrictions prevented the sale of tickets.

Clockenflap 2010

Due to various restrictions, the third Clockenflap was a one-night festival held in a warehouse on Saturday, 20 November 2010.

Clockenflap 2009

The second Clockenflap festival was a two-day festival held on Saturday-Sunday, 7–8 November 2009 at

Cyberport Cyberport is a business park in Southern District, Hong Kong consisting of four office buildings, a hotel, and a retail entertainment complex. It describes itself as a digital technology community with over 1,800 (800 on-site and 1,0 ...

Clockenflap 2008

The first Clockenflap festival was held on Saturday 12 January 2008 at

. Some 1,500 people attended.Beat Magazine Hong Kong, Feb 2008

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