Arts for Good Foundation Newsletter

Newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation - August 2022

Welcome to the August 2022 newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation. This month, we would like to send our sincerest gratitude to all our volunteers and volunteer recruitment platform partners. Arts for Good Foundation would never have been able to achieve what we have over the past two years without the tremendous support we receive from hundreds of volunteers. Our volunteer database is growing on a weekly basis, ranging from university students and fresh graduates, to artists and skills-based professionals. This growth reaffirms our belief in arts as civic commons and motivates us to create more meaningful and purposeful initiatives by harnessing the passion and dedication of everyone who contributes their time and effort.

Best regards,

Amanda H Sun

Change Maker

Founder & Director

Arts for Good Foundation

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Chinese Calligraphy Education Project Incorporated with Video Art and Sound Art

"Hong Kong's Disappearing Signages Written in Chinese Calligraphy" Video Preview (English / Chinese)

Thanks to our collaboration with Chinese calligraphy artist Katrina Mo and sound artist Alain Chiu, we had a great learning session with student beneficiaries from The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong. We genuinely appreciate the support from The Mills and Credit Suisse to deliver this meaningful and educational event. We look forward to running this session with a new set of beneficiaries in September.

Through this project, we intend to help the younger participants: 1) understand and appreciate the real-life relevance of Chinese calligraphy, the historical contexts of the art form and the individual emotions and expressions conveyed by Chinese calligraphy; 2) create a meaningful and multi-sensory experience that enhances their appreciation of Chinese calligraphy while also helping them understand the perspectives of "black" and "white"; and 3) introduce a facet of Hong Kong's disappearing culture through art making in order to strengthen their cultural sensitivity in daily life and enhance their emotional and intellectual connection with our wider community.

Art and culture education and youth development have become one of the main social responsibilities of our society. We look forward to future opportunities to work with different corporations, institutions, artists, art exhibitors, NGOs and schools to make collective and collaborative social impacts together.

Media Manipulation 2022

We are delighted to have finished shooting the short film Media Manipulation 2022. This film is directed by Ya-Ya AN, who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, the University of the Creative Arts (UK) and most recently from the City University of Hong Kong's Creative Media programme.

This film was made by the youth participants and targets to youth audiences. The story focuses on mapping human existence in an era when we are in a constant state of manipulation via omnipresent media. We aim to invite participants and future audiences to rethink the relationship between media and human beings, particularly in an era of overflowing information on social media.

This ten-minute film shares a fictional story in which a girl is actively manipulated by the media, in the process becoming increasingly numb to emotions and sensations and gradually losing her imagination and her capacity for independent thought.

We are thankful for all the input from a total of 10 creative talents who helped make this project possible. We are particularly glad to have support from Isabel Galwey, a graduate student in digital media from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), for post-production and film editing. We look forward to the final release and will be seeking partners to help stage the premiere and arrange future screenings in order to raise more awareness of this topic.

Imagination Spongebobs:

Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future

We are delighted to deliver our tailor-made workshop "Imagination Spongebobs - Hong Kong's Past, Present and Future" to a total of 70 Primary Five students in a local school in Fanling. We truly appreciate all the help from Nepalese artist Sony Rai, who was referred to us via an NGO-led Career and Life Enrichment Programme for Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong.

We started the workshop by introducing the story of Daphne Mandel, the artist who created the visual art series of Hong Kong Time Rift and Cabinets of Memories. Through storytelling and facilitation, we worked to raise the students' cultural sensitivity and awareness and foster their sense of commitment to the place where they were born and live. The story of a foreigner who found a sense belonging and purpose in Hong Kong through art making encouraged the students to view their surroundings through fresh eyes and think about the changes they could imagine from the past to the future, even the tiny things that otherwise might have been forgotten.

This was followed by hands-on experience that combined the appreciation of the historical photos with collage art making in order to help students enhance their visual literacy and visual thinking skills. At the same time onsite facilitation via inquiry-based learning was designed to connect the past with the future in their personal experience and to inspired them to broaden their perspectives and imagine new possibilities in their own stories.

We truly appreciate the support of front-line teachers for this art-integrated learning programme. We were humbled by their complete trust in Arts for Good Foundation's ability to create and deliver a tailor-made workshop for the large group of students. We look forward to working with more schools in the future.

HKU x Arts For Good Art Viewing Study Groups at Museums

Thanks to our 20 HKU student ambassadors for leading and facilitating 14 study groups with primary, secondary and tertiary students at M+ and HKMOA on Saturdays in August.

The second cohort of the HKU x Arts for Good Programme has come to an end. We are deeply thankful for the contribution of our student ambassadors and the support of social workers from various NGOs and more than 50 skills-based volunteers from three investment banks who provided weekly onsite and logistic support for the delivery of the programme.

This programme was constructed based on our belief of the concept of "social prescribing" particularly in the covid and post-covid era. We are actively seeking further support for the future development and delivery of this programme.

For enquiries, please email us at info@artsforgoodfoundation.com.

Past Newsletters

July 2022, June 2022, May 2022, April 2022, March 2022, February 2022, January 2022, December 2021, November 2021, October 2021; September 2021; August 2021; July 2021; June 2021; May 2021; April 2021; March 2021; February 2021; January 2021