Hong Kong will ring in the New Year with a dazzling celebration, featuring radiant lights along the entire Victoria Harbour waterfront, a performance by the city’s flagship Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and the New Year countdown lights on the recently opened M+.
Starting on New Year’s Eve, the 65.8-metre-tall LED façade of M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture, will showcase a sweeping, high-contrast visual tale created by talented local digital artists as a homage to the city’s various landmarks, neighbourhoods, and vibrant arts and culture scene. It will then be transformed into a countdown clock, which will travel across the rich cityscape of Hong Kong during the final minute of 2021 (3:59pm GMT), before eventually displaying the numerals “2022” and New Year’s greetings across its screen as the clock strikes midnight (4pm GMT).
Beneath the bright lights of the prominent skyscrapers ringing in the New Year along Victoria Harbour, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the city’s flagship orchestra and winner of the Gramophone Orchestra of the Year award in 2019, will perform energetic, jubilant music for a global audience in an outdoor concert in the West Kowloon Cultural District as Hong Kong celebrates the New Year.
