Newsletter 2021-10-31
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October Newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation
Welcome to the October 2021 newsletter from Arts For Good Foundation. This month, we have been delighted to share with the public the works we created during our first "Written Warp" community engagement art programme. We also ended our second round of Sham Shui Po community tour and storytelling workshops. Finally, we are very excited to announce our new collaboration with The University of Hong Kong (HKU)!  At the same time,  we continue to seek new opportunities to create value-driven art-based initiatives to achieve positive community impact.  

Best regards,
Amanda H Sun
Change Maker
Founder& Director
Arts for All, Arts for Good, Arts for Inclusion
 
HKU X Arts for Good Leadership Programme

We are very excited to have launched the pilot edition of the HKU x Arts for Good Leadership Programme, a collaboration between the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Arts for Good Foundation.

This programme provides a great platform for HKU students to serve their communities as art advocates by helping deliver art viewing experiences and as art workshop facilitators.

At the same time, we are recruiting secondary students to join the programme alongside with our HKU students. All the participants are expected to broaden their perspectives and develop their genetic leadership skills through self-study,  group discussion, and hands-on art making experience. Secondary students can apply through emails before 30th November. 

This collaboration has deepened our commitment to building a student-led art community in Hong Kong. We are hoping to work/collaborate with more institutions to create community impact together through art programmes. 
 
Written Warp at The Mills

Arts for Good Foundation deeply believes in Arts for All. We believe children and youth, regardless of their social or family backgrounds, shall all have equal access to arts and culture.

By providing high-quality art making experience for youths from diverse backgrounds, we also train them to be our advocates by sharing their experience and learning with the wider community. 

We are so proud of the more-than-50 youths who have participated in our Written Warp project.  Over the past eight months, many of these talented youths have become our advocates for the programm's goal of fostering new perspectives on textile arts and how the practice can benefit children in our wider communities.  

We are seeking opportunities for new collaborations to help develop and deliver new art projects, to continue to make community impact together with our collaborators.
 
 
Sham Shui Po Storytelling through Photography by HHCKLA Buddhist Ching Kok Lin Association School

We are delighted to have had the chance to deliver our Storytelling Through Photography workshop to students of the HHCKLA Buddhist Ching Kok Lin Association School at Fanling. 

Through this experience, we helped the students to enhance their verbal and visual language skills by creating their stories through real life experience. In the process,  we encountered new perspectives and discussed narratives that they couldn't have previously imagined by themselves. 

More importantly, students were guided to curate their stories by seeking common themes and placing the narratives in a sequence that brought together the diverse opinions and interpretations of each storyteller.   The 20 students were fascinated by  this unique experience, and they ultimately created the story of " Sham Shui Po Buildings - Old and New". The teachers and the students were very proud of the collaborative work and shared the series with their family and their school community. 
 
School Talks

We are very pleased to continue the series of talks at Good Hope school.

Through a series of talks with over 500 students and school staff, we intended to help them seek shared values in our community through art viewing; to foster learning by sparking curiosity and imagination; and to develop their deeper thinking skills for themselves, and more importantly about the bigger questions around them.

We would like to thank frontline teachers for supporting and helping with the talks. We look forward to more opportunities to bring value-driven  art viewing and art making experience  to benefit more students in Hong Kong. 
 
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