What do the curators and organisers of the 2026 Inter-Island Festival have in common? All three of them – Yip Kai-chun, Chan Chun-kit and Gloria Furness – traded life in urban Hong Kong for one of the city’s outlying islands for similar reasons: to be close to nature, experience a sense of community and enjoy a quiet lifestyle. However, they got more than they bargained for: connection. Peng Chau specifically “has a lot of people from the creative industries who move out [of the city] and start...