Dear Readers, 

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Thank you for visiting my site.

I’d like to share with you the story of my life’s journey that you can read about in my book called “Life On the Fringe - the almost naked memoir” 邊渡罒十年 available from Hong Kong University Press, and amazon.com. It’s about taking chances in  turning a run-down ice cream parlour inside a cold storage warehouse into a vibrant and iconic contemporary arts space - Hong Kong Fringe Club. There, in forty years, tens of thousands of artists - emergent or already well-known - have come to perform and exhibit their works. I’d taken the Fringe from an open-access platform to morph into the City Festival, an urban culture festival; and Festival Without Walls,  a homage to Andre Malraux, author of The Voices of Silence, who came up with this concept.

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“The great mystery (of life) is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.” - Andre Malraux

After all these years of managing the arts, I’m ready to do something I always love to dread: to become a creative writer, and in the process, learn to manage myself instead of other people’s artistic aspirations. Now it's time to look inward, to know who I really am, be truly comfortable in my own skin, and try to be free from the hindrances of this floating life.

​Benny Chia 謝俊興.