July Newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation

July Newsletter from Arts for Good Foundation

Welcome to the July 2021 newsletter from Arts For Good Foundation. At a time when traveling is still limited for families in Hong Kong, we have offered meaningful summer programmes for our beneficiaries to create multiple narratives for our community, to connect through arts and culture, and to seek new inspirations with our curious minds over the summer.

Best regards,

Amanda H Sun

Change Maker

Founder& Director

Arts for Good Foundation

Sham Shui Po Community Storytelling through Photography

Our Community Storytelling through Photography was a great success. During the three days workshops, we helped 10 youths - 5 from Sham Shui Po as community ambassadors, and 5 visitors as community explorers- to think and plan the connections between a photographer and the subject, to enable them to realize the power of narratives using photography with perspectives, and to deliver their own emotion as a photographer through their works.

More importantly, with the film camera as a visual tool to think and to express, we help them to use their visual and verbal languages to express their thoughts in different narratives, to create insider and outsider looking, and to curate stories with their works.

We are so grateful for all the feedbacks from the students , saying how different people have different perspectives that them wouldn’t have been able to come up with on their own; and how photography could reveal their own emotions without consciously being aware of them; and how powerful photography is to enable them to connect with others.

We aim to foster our ambassadors to be the future advocates for the great values of Sham Shui Po , and also to encourage our explorers to reflect on their own neighbourhoods with their discovered values through this experience.

Arts for Good Foundation Brochure

We are deeply grateful for the support extended from Lim-Loges Masters, Arts for Good Foundation has published our first foundation brochure. With this brochure, we hope to connect with school decision makers, education specialists, and NGOs /companies who are seeking education partners through arts and culture for children and youth in Hong Kong. We also extend this invitations to individuals and organizations who are interested in our social mission for the future of Hong Kong.

Youth to Sustainability Summit

We are delighted to have the opportunity to share the power of storytelling at Youth to Sustainability Summit 2021 with over 180 high school students.

Through our stories and our exploration into the power of arts, we connected with the youths and encouraged them to dream for a better world, to imagine and think differently, to be a curious learner , to make small changes (either to themselves or their community), and to become a better leader for their futures.

Founder's Interview with RTHK

Thank you Noreen Mir and RTHK for allowing us to share our deep belief, our values, and our vision for social changes for the future of Hong Kong. For all our supporters, advocates, and those who are interested in Arts for Good Foundation, you are welcome to watch or listen to this interview via

Facebook or Audio Link .

Community Service Through Arts

We are very proud of our three groups of youth volunteers from different international schools and overseas boarding schools. We are so proud of them for organising, planning and executing 15 art workshops for the 20 children who are kept at Society of Community Organisation (SoCo) under “care service” this summer . We are also grateful that they proactively planned various mindful and meditative art workshops including mandala , textile, origami, sketching , bookmark and pompom making, and more .

We also would like to thank the local students from SoCo who are so outgoing and cheerful, warmly welcoming our volunteers, most of whom are serving as workshop leaders through arts and crafts for the first time.

Highlighted Performance Arts at The Mills Summer Exhibition (Postponed)

Written Warp

Sunday, 3 October, 3pm and 4pm

Location: The Mills

Led by youngsters from diverse backgrounds, our performance art work allows the nonverbal communication of the tensions between the strings (push and pull, give and take) to flow between the weavers. This performative event brings into itself diversity and togetherness, highlighting the intertwining connections in our community.