Ports: from Kowloon to Kamay

A site-responsive music performance responding to local and international waterways, directed by renowned local pianist Dr Jocelyn Ho.

Ports: from Kowloon to Kamay is a site-responsive music and visual performance that brings sound, story and place into dialogue, exploring migration, memory, and waterways as sites of connection.

Directed by renowned pianist, Steinway Artist and artistic director Dr Jocelyn Ho, Ports unfolds as an intimate evening of live music, projection art, and poetry. Ho is joined by traditional Chinese musician Dr Nicholas Ng (erhu and hulusi), Dr Mark Oliveiro (electronics), and visual artist Siyi Shen, forming a richly layered interdisciplinary ensemble.

The performance features three world premieres of newly commissioned works, experienced through immersive sonic and visual landscapes. Drawing on the lived experience of migration, Ports reflects on how memories of a real or imagined homeland persist as people make a new home in Australia. By tracing a conceptual journey between ports—Kowloon, Kamay, Malacca, Port Darwin, and Port Albert, the work reveals an entanglement of cultures, histories and waterways, inviting fresh reflections on place-making, belonging and multicultural experience.

Set within the contemplative interior of St Matt’s Church, Botany, audiences are invited to listen deeply and to consider how earlier memories of place shape contemporary relationships to the land on which we live.

**When:** Saturday 30 May 6:30pm to 8pm

**Where:** St Matt’s Church, Botany. Public transport encouraged.

Getting to the event

Chapel Nights will be hosted in St Matt’s Botany, an historic building in the heart of Southern Sydney.

**Address:** 1331 Botany Rd, Botany NSW 2019

By Public Transport

St Matt’s is a 10 minute bus ride from Mascot Train Station

By car

There is limited parking available at the site and in the surrounding streets. We recommend car sharing and taking public tranport where possible.