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Looking for the hottest arts and cultural shows and exhibitions to fill your social calendar? Look no further than these 11 event highlights in Hong Kong that are not to be missed this June.

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Karen Mok: The Ultimate Grand Slam Show 
11 &#8211; 13 Jun 
Iconic Hong Kong pop singer Karen Mok bids farewell to performing on stage and moves on to the next chapter of her life in the final stint of her three-year tour to 40 cities worldwide. Held over three nights within the Hong Kong Coliseum in Kowloon, her last large-scale concert serves as the star’s last hurrah in her decade-long career in the showbiz industry. Though it remains uncertain whether the artist will be retiring from performing completely, it is definite that this concert would be the last of its kind for the megastar and is surely a historic event that is not to be missed.
Price:&nbsp;From HK$380 
Location: Hong Kong Coliseum, Hung Hom Bay 
For more information: sunconcert.com
Music After Work @ Xiqu Centre 
Until 24 Jun 
If you’re seeking a relaxing end to a busy Thursday, perhaps a visit to West Kowloon’s most prominent arts and culture venue, Xiqu Centre, will offer you just the escape you need. Presenting a weekly slew of live musical performances by the likes of local jazz bands, folk singers and songwriters, the live ensemble will take place at the venue’s front entrance, generously offering the public a soundscape of lyrical tunes and sweet harmonics to unwind to.
Price: Free entry 
Location: Xiqu Centre entrance, Tsim Sha Tsui 
For more information: westkowloon.hk
Hi! Flora, Fauna 
Until 30 Jun 
One of the oldest zoological and botanical centres in the world, and the city’s oldest park, the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens provides the lush backdrop for an art project that exhorts visitors to explore their relationship with nature. ‘Hi! Flora, Fauna’ exhibits 17 different artists and groups using various media, including painting, photography, sculpting and installation. The experience is further enlivened with a collaborative audio experience by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.
Price: Free entry 
Location: Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Central 
For more information: lcsd.gov.hk
Calligraphy Rhapsody:&nbsp;Retrospective Exhibition of Georges Mathieu 
Until 4 Jul 
Co-presented by non-profit organisation K11 Art Foundation (KAF) and the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong &amp; Macau at K11 MUSEA. Calligraphy Rhapsody is the largest Georges Mathieu exhibition in Hong Kong&nbsp; that marks the French artist’s centenary. Curated by Catherine Kwai, featuring 14 oil paintings loaned from important private collectors, three of which span 6-meters wide and were specially created for Mathieu’s Grand Palais retrospective in Paris in 1978.
Price: Free entry 
Location: Shop 605, 6/F, K11 Musea, Tsim Sha Tsui 
For more information:&nbsp;k11musea.com
Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival 2021 
Until 16 Jul 
Organised by the Tourism Commission, the Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival continues its three-year pilot scheme to instigate a new experience of art through the integration of culture, heritage and nature in everyday life. The festival takes on a virtual space to showcase its varied artworks in digital format, inviting viewers to immerse in a 360-degree virtual reality exhibition that encapsulates the unique natural landscape and history of the Sai Kung village.
Price: Free 
Location: Online 
For more information: yimtintsaiartsfestival.hk
Between the Lines: The Legends of Hong Kong Printing 
Until 26 Jul 
This fascinating exhibition presents stories and illustrations of traditional printing techniques and movable type tools, as well as works and designs by emerging young designers who have assumed the mantle of reviving and modernising the craft of letter printing. Curators at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum train a special spotlight this month on the disappearing art form of lithography.
Price: Free entry 
Location: Thematic Gallery 5, 1/F, Hong Kong Heritage Museum 
For more information: heritagemuseum.gov.hk
Chinese Surrealism 
Until 7 Aug 
In association with the month-long Le French May arts festival, the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong &amp; Macau partners with Alisan Fine Arts to present Chinese Surrealism. The exhibition of contemporary Chinese ink paintings and sculptures focuses on dreamscapes and explorations of the unconscious mind – imagery more commonly associated with Western names such as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. Young Hong Kong female artists dominate a six-strong group selected for their impressive interpretation of surrealism through a Chinese lens.
Price: Free entry 
Location: Alisan Fine Arts, Aberdeen 
For more information: alisan.com.hk
Colour The World 
7 Jun 
D2 Place, together with the French May Arts Festival, proudly present an extraordinary art exhibition that showcases two talented Hong Kong-based artists, The French Girl (Caroline Tronel) and Rainbo in a joint collaboration to bring French and Hong Kong culture together in an extraordinary art journey — co-creating a giant 10m-long mural painting titled Smell of Stars.&nbsp;Other highlights at the event include a series of artworks courtesy of the new knitting brand hoopla.
Price: Free entry 
Location: The Garage, G/F, D2 Place TWO 
For more information: frenchmay.com
Romeo + Juliet 
18 &#8211; 20 Jun 
The Hong Kong Ballet brings to life one of the most epic love stories of all time, Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet, with a contemporary Hong Kong-inspired twist. In this local iteration of the timeless tale of star-crossed lovers, the duo is caught in a war between rival triad families in the ’60s Hong Kong. The narrative follows their passion and tragedy in a fusion of dance and drama with original choreography by Septime Webre, Prokofiev’s dramatic score, and sumptuous cheongsam costumes.
Price: From HK$140 
Location: Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, Tsim Sha Tsui 
For more information: hkballet.com
Curve of Buoyancy 
20 Jun 
Michelin-starred cultural and social destination Duddell’s lends its contemporary mixed-use space to an exhibition of 16 thought-provoking works owned by four eminent female collectors, including Mimi Brown, Karen Levy and Li Lin. Curve of Buoyancy spans such diverse subjects as Gothic architecture and functional straps in athleisurewear, and is inspired by the curved lightness of Wendell Dayton’s sculpture ‘For Calder’ (1975).
Price: Free entry 
Location:&nbsp;Duddell’s, Shanghai Tang Mansion, 1 Duddell St, Central. Website:&nbsp;duddells.co/art/main/en
Jewellery &amp; Gem Asia Hong Kong 
24 &#8211; 27 Jun 
Asia’s most important jewellery event returns this year, albeit in a hybrid of physical and virtual programmes. Occupying 70,000sq.m of event space within the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the gathering of all that glitters lives up to its year-on-year exciting line-up of exhibitors and special events. The fair’s virtual showing, meanwhile, extends from 17 June to 7 July and grants full access to new products, digital events, specials and more.
Price: Free entry 
Location: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan&nbsp;Chai 
For more information: hkcec.com
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Hong Kong has been known for years as one of Asia’s major financial and banking hubs, comparable to major hubs in the West, including New York and London. Aside from this distinction, the city is also known for scores of its iconic skyscrapers, courtesy of some of the world’s most prominent and renowned designers and architectural firms. We present some of the city’s most iconic structures designed by renowned international designers.
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HSBC Main Building 
1 Queen&#8217;s Road, Central, 1985
Designed by internationally-acclaimed British architect, Norman Foster, the HSBC main building was a one-of-a-kind design. Its internal design is absent of a central structure, presenting an open free-space that resembles a gallery more than a building. It was reputed as the most expensive building across the world when its construction was completed in 1985.
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Bank of China Tower 
1 Garden Road, Central
The Bank of China Tower is a 72-storey office tower designed by Chinese-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect, I. M. Pei. Its distinctive glass curtain walls, sharp edges and pointed tower makes it a truly unique landmark in Hong Kong&#8217;s Central district. Until 1992, it enjoyed the distinction of being the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia.
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International Finance Centre 
8 Finance Street, Central
The integrated commercial complex simply known as IFC is one of the most prominent landmarks on Hong Kong Island. It consists of Tower One, the 55 storey Four Seasons Hotel and Tower Two, the second tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, towering over the waterfront at 415m. It was designed by César Pelli, an architect known for some of the tallest buildings in the world.
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Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 
1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai
Built in 1988 on reclaimed land off Gloucester Road is one of the two major convention and exhibition centres in Hong Kong, the other being AsiaWorld-Expo. The complex was designed by Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merill LLP and took only 48 months to complete from reclamation. It sits along the shore, overlooking Victoria Harbour in three fronts, a distinctive landmark that everyone coming through the harbour won&#8217;t fail to see.&nbsp;
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Jockey Club Innovation Tower 
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Hom
In 2007 Zaha Hadid and her firm won a competition that was set in place to develop a deign that would symbolise the driving and development of Hong Kong as a design hub in Asia. Hadid and her firm&#8217;s goal was to &#8220;dissolve the classic typography of tower and podium to create a seamless piece&#8221;. She said, &#8220;The tower promotes a diversity of civic spaces &#8220;.&nbsp; Hadid is also the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize award.

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