What's Up Hong Kong?
Summary: Find out what’s happening in Hong Kong each week with your host, Travis Jones, and meet some of Hong Kong’s most illustrious and industrious movers and shakers. They will tell us all about what they’re up to as we explore all the events and activities taking place in Hong Kong. New episodes are released each Tuesday.
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This week What's Up Hong Kong is graced by the presence of producer, director, performer and all around talent Wendy Herbert. She'll give us insight into what it takes to put together a performance in Hong Kong and highlight some issues with broadcasting in the city. She and Travis will also explore the events that are taking place in HK this week.
Garron Chiu joins the show this week to help Travis go through the events taking place in Hong Kong this week. Garron also defends his tweets and the guys go 'Google Diving' to ask each other questions about race.
What's Up Hong Kong? is fortunate to have Meaghan McGurgan join the show this week to talk about theater in Hong Kong and her website HKELD (Hong Kong English Language Drama). She will give us insight into what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite local performances and join us as we explore the events coming up in the city this week.
This week writer and publisher Marshall Moore of Signal 8 Press and Typhoon Media joins the show to talk about his new book, Bitter Orange, as well writing and publishing fiction in Hong Kong. Of course, he and Travis will also be talking about the events coming up in HK this week too.
Stand-up comedian Tim Borch Nielsen joins What's Up Hong Kong? this week to bring the funny and talk about what he'll miss most about HK, since he is returning to Denmark. We'll also delve into the upcoming activities this week that Tim won't be able to enjoy.
Music is the topic this week as Edwin Lo of creative music consultants Cuetone and online music magazine Bitetone joins the show. He'll tell us all about the state of indie rock in Hong Kong and, of course, we'll talk about some great events that are coming up this week.
This week Harrison Kelly of Flatcap Asia joins Travis to talk about arts, literature and public relations in Hong Kong. They also discuss recent news and some events that are coming up in the city this week.
Comedian Sam Moorhouse stops by the show to talk about the events and activites coming up in Hong Kong this week and play some games with us. Also, we introduce the new 'Hong Kong Island Disks' to you lovely listeners via Sam's own 'Whose House? Moorhouse!' segment.
We've got an adventurous show this week as Travis hits the streets to interview author, photographer and editor of the new anthology Unsavory Elements, Tom Carter, as well as another contributor to the book, Bruce Humes. Also, friend-of-the-show turned ace reporter Remo Notarianni leads us through Art Basel and interviews a number of galleries and artists at the event. Of course, we also discuss the week's events and play a game of 5Q with Tom Carter, Bruce Humes and Pete Spurrier of Blacksmith Books.
WUHK? has its first Hong Kong virgin this week as comedian Ryan Stout joins the show in the days leading up to his first performance in Asia! We'll find out about him and his ideas and expectations for HK, as well as discuss some current events and some of the coolest events taking place this week.
This week Ysabelle Cheung stops by What's Up Hong Kong? to talk about her Liar's League, an organization that puts together great actors with great stories to create entertaining events for all. She will also join Travis in discussion of some of the great events that are coming up in the city this week.
This week Joyce Peng stops by What's Up Hong Kong? to talk about her Soho venues, Peel Fresco and Joyce is Not Here, as well as jazz music and club ownership in Hong Kong. As always, we also discuss recent news and some of the great events happening in the city throughout the week.
Calling all beer lovers! Jeff Boda from Hop Leaf HK stops by the show this week to talk about the proliferation of delicious craft beers in Hong Kong and the state of beer in the city and the rest of the world. We also discuss recent news and some of the great events happening throughout the week.
Alex Milner and Nick Oliver join the show this week to pow-wow with Travis about podcasting, comedy and fatherhood in Hong Kong. They also defend some of their tweets and find out which one knows more about the other through 2 sessions of 5Q. Finally, as always, find out about some cool events happening in the city this week.
This week Travis is happy to be joined by street photographer and cinematographer Evangelo "EC" Costadimas. They'll talk about street photography vs. documentary photography, art in Hong Kong and what's going on in the city this week.