(Chinese version below)

Colour is one of the most important elements of visual art, and at the same time, it is a gateway for us to appreciate the world. Colour can also stimulate creative thinking and imagination. In this workshop, instructor Christo Lau will lead participants to exercise their awareness through studying colours, and as a result elevate mindfulness.

There will be four sessions in this workshop : 1. Colour in Seeing, 2. Colour in Thinking, 3. Colour in Feeling, 4. Colour in Surrounding. Through reading colour and appreciating life, let us breakthrough our inertial thinking, begin a new conversation with ourselves and explore the true colour that one needs.

This workshop is also ideal for participants who wish to ease their mind, and to better listen to their inner voice and emotional needs, with experiences consisting of observation, creation, and meditation.

Dates & Time
11am - 1pm, November 29, 2020 (Sun)

Venue
HART Haus
3/F, Cheung Hing Ind. Bldg., 12P Smithfield Rd., Kennedy Town, Hong Kong

Participation Fee
HK$300

*10% off discount for participants who sign up for at least two workshops of The Dew programme
*15% off discount for full-time students studying at secondary schools, higher institutions, and university undergraduate programmes in Hong Kong

Medium of Instruction
English and Cantonese (depending on participants’ needs)

顏色是視覺藝術重要的元素，同時也是我們欣賞世界美好的大門。顏色可以幫助開發創意思維，工作坊會引領大家透過觀察顏色做練習提高覺察力，提升正念知見。

工作坊分別以四節課進行，當中以看見、思考，感受和表達顏色等等不同面向。一系列以顏色為主軸之工作坊，從對顏色的觀察練習，慢下來欣賞生命之餘，透過對顏色的想像力，進一步打破慣性思維，繼而和內在對話，探索內心需要等色彩。

我們期待參與者透過直觀、創作、靜心等練習體驗，來放鬆心情、平靜思緒，了解內心的聲音，覺察內在情緒需要。

日期及時間
二零二零年十一月二十九日 (星期日) - 上午十一時至下午一時

地點
堅尼地城祥興工業大廈三樓HART Haus

參加費
HK$300

*香港全日制中學、高等院校、大學本科學生——八五折優惠
*同時報名兩個或以上《湛》系列工作坊——九折優惠

語言
英語及廣東話（視乎學員需要）

Event is fully registered. Thank you for your support!

活動報名名額已滿,謝謝支持!

About Course Instructor

Christo, Lau Yu Yat

Christo, Lau Yu Yat has taught art, culture and design courses at different local colleges and universities since 2002. In recent years, she has become more interested in mindfulness practice . As a professional Bach Flower Remedies Therapist and Human Design consultant, Lau is eager to explore the relationship between mindfulness, emotion and education with all people who are keen on art . She is the founder of Social Intern and determined to develop community based- art education with mindfulness practice.

導師介紹

劉雨鈤

劉雨鈤從2002年起任教本地的不同大專院校之藝術、文化及設計課程，近年對身心靈越感興趣，喜歡禪修及佛學, 身為巴哈花精情緒治療師及人類圖咨詢師、並與友人成立見習良社SOCIAL INTERN, 發展社區身心靈藝術教育。多年反覆追問青少年成長, 需要怎樣的心靈和覺察能力來支撐和滋養，渴望透過自身經驗,探索心靈與藝術教育的關係。

Idea developed and hosted by
工作坊意念及主辦
Herman Rahman

The aims of the workshop is to expand ideas around the archive, the limits, potential and looking at an archive as a departure point in one's practice. The workshop looks to view an archive as a means of not only preserving the past, but about modes of sharing the common. Participants are encouraged to build an archive, with the eventual goal of building up narratives using a common pool of images. The ideas around the workshop include authorship. multimodality, and appropriation, including the application of the archive in an art practice.

這個工作坊希望拓展關於檔案（Archive）的概念、界限，以及潛能，將檔案視為實踐的起點。這個工作坊嘗試將檔案看待成不只是紀錄過往，更是一種分享共同點的模式。參加者嘗試建立檔案，務求使用共同的影像庫敍事。工作坊的意念將包括著作權、多模態、以及挪用，包括將檔案應用在藝術創作上。

Objectives

• Exchange of image and ideas

• Reflection on an archive as an intersection of community and narrative building

• Collective and individual memories and modes of seeing and remembering

• Representational strategies

Requirement for the participants

• Bring 20 printed photographs, with a single image not being any bigger than 4x6 inches

• The photographs need not necessarily be taken by the participant

• Examples include, but not limited to; vernacular images, portraits, landscapes, images from historic events. 

工作坊目標

• 分享圖像和意念

• 反思檔案如何作為社群和建立敍事的交差點

• 創造集體和個人回憶，以及觀看和記念的方式

• 制定表徵策略（representational strategy）

參加者須知

• 請攜帶20張打印照片，每張不能超過4至6吋

• 照片不一定需要由參加者拍攝

• 例子包括（但不限於）：日常影像、肖像、風景、歷史照片

(Chinese version below)

Activate your body's self-healing ability through resonance of one's voice; adjust the status of your body and mind through personal chi and energy flow. With guidance and demonstration, participants can learn to develop healthier body and mind, and better unleash their potentials through simple yet practical methods, in line with the use of voice and chi.

This workshop will consist of two parts: the first part will focus on 'voice' - using human voices and instruments to understand the coordination of one's body and tone, discover self-healing power of frequency, and the potentials of chanting. The second part will focus on 'chi' - the development of one's sense of chi, the healing power of collective energy flow and the combination of voice and chi.

Dates & Time
2pm - 4pm, November 8, 2020 (Sun)

Venue
HART Haus
3/F, Cheung Hing Ind. Bldg., 12P Smithfield Rd., Kennedy Town, Hong Kong

Participation Fee
HK$250

*10% off discount for participants who sign up for at least two workshops of The Dew programme
*15% off discount for full-time students studying at secondary schools, higher institutions, and university undergraduate programmes in Hong Kong

Medium of Instruction
English and Cantonese (depending on participants’ needs)

以自發聲音的共鳴，啟動身體的自癒能力；以自身氣感和能量流，調整身心狀態。透過引導和示範，參加者可體驗以簡單實用的方法，配合聲與氣的運用，使身心更健康、潛能更能發揮。

工作坊分為兩部份，第一部分以聲為主，運用人聲與樂器，了解身體與音律的配合、音頻自癒和發揮唱頌潛能等；第二部分以氣為主，內容包括自身的氣感培養、集體能量流療癒等，也會結合聲音的能量、體驗聲和氣的療癒。

日期及時間
二零二零年十一月八日 (星期日)
下午二時至四時

地點
堅尼地城祥興工業大廈三樓HART Haus

參加費
HK$250

*香港全日制中學、高等院校、大學本科學生——八五折優惠
*同時報名兩個或以上《湛》系列工作坊——九折優惠

語言
英語及廣東話（視乎學員需要）

Thank you for your support! The event is full.
謝謝你的支持！報名名額已滿。

About Course Instructor

Sya Chan

As a professional medical staff, Sya is also a healer. She studied nutritions and MSc in nursing at the university, and has been working on the frontline since then, taking care of patients who have physical and mental issues. Her work has given her lots of inspirations.

On the other hand, Sya was brought up with musical trainings. After receiving her postgraduate certificate in music therapy, Sya went to Europe and received training in sound therapy and cell recovery techniques from sound healing masters of Denmark. In recent years, Sya went to Kyoto in Japan, and learned about reiki (chi) directly from the Usui discipline, and has become a recognised master in reiki. Thankful for all the encounters in life, Sya regards healing herself and the public as the prime mission in life, and she hopes to bring broader benefits to more people.

導師介紹

Sya Chan

作為專業醫護人員， Sya同時是位療癒者。 在大學時期供讀營養學和護理學碩士，隨後一直於前線工作，親身照顧身心出現不同狀況的人士，從中得到不少啟發。

自小接受音樂訓練，在得到音樂治療深造資格後，Sya遠赴歐洲，跟隨丹麥聲音療癒大師實習聲音療癒和有關的細胞回遡技巧；近年也多次到日本京都，跟隨臼井老師的直傳門生研習靈氣，成為日本認證直傳靈氣師範。療癒自己和大眾，就是這人生最重要的事情，感恩有不同機緣，期望令更多人裨益。

In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.

The previous livestream conversations focused on the art practices of the other three participating artists in exhibition Household Gods, and in this post-opening dialogue, Nadim Abbas would like to explore on how the process of making of the exhibition sheds lights on the current developments on creativity in Hong Kong. As a Hausian, Abbas will also reveal his thoughts and feelings engaging in HART Social Studio.

About the Artist

Nadim Abbas examines the mercurial properties of images and their ambiguous relationship to reality.  This has culminated in the construction of complex set pieces where objects disappear into their own image and bodies succumb to the seduction of space.  Abbas was awarded with the Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship and the HK Arts Development Award (Young Artist / Visual Arts) in 2014.  

Past exhibitions include: Participation Mystique (McaM, Shanghai), Phantom Plane (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong), Poor Toy (VITRINE, Basel), Proregress (12th Shanghai Biennale), Blue Noon (Last Tango, Zurich), Clouds⇄Forests (7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art), Camoufleur (VITRINE, London), Chimera (Antenna Space, Shanghai), The Last Vehicle (UCCA, Beijing), 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience (New Museum, New York), Unseen Existence (HK Arts Centre), Going, going, until I meet the tide (2014 Busan Biennale), The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else (Witte de With, Rotterdam), Tetraphilia (Third Floor Hermés, Singapore).

In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.

In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.

The works of art created by Tap Chan reflect her consistent in-depth study on material application. Constantly investigating the different facets and characteristics of materiality, medium and media, she explores how these characteristics enrich the contents or expression of her creations, as well as how these qualities help evolve her art making. One may say that the dedicated research on matters, textures and materials has become Chan’s art language. Spectators can learn about the close relation and connection of her works with space and environment, as we slowly discover and observe more of her practices.

Chan tends to develop her concepts and approaches of realising her works gradually. As we read her art with an open mind, we can better understand how it suggests both positivities and negativities in our everyday experience, at the same time learning how these abstract, simple and poetic representations enrich our comprehension of the complexities of the world, of visual cultures and of contemporary art. 

About the Artist

Tap Chan born in Hong Kong, currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her B.A fine art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2011 and an M.A. in Visual Arts from the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014. Her works mostly appear in the form of installations, videos and sculptures. She is interested in exploring the idea of liminality that is embedded in daily life, where the boundaries between fiction and reality are often blurred, like the undefined psychic and emotional ruptures experienced during bouts of insomnia. To construct a narrative of the subterranean mind that rumbles beneath the facade of modern existence. 

She was funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council cultural exchange project in 2017 for her solo exhibition "A Soft Note" in Singapore and has participated in Hong Kong Sculpture Biennial 2016, a solo intervention “444”, group show "Underline" in Netherlands and is currently showing in Tai Kwun Contemporary HK.

In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.

Ever since Shane Aspegren joined HART Social Studio, the artist has been continuing the experimental approach, that connects his various practices — focusing largely on human perception, while also deepening his exploration of the material. HART team, as an observant and supporter, is quite conscious about how standards and precision continue to play significant roles in this process, as does the feedback from his audience and participants in his Holistic Sound (a.k.a. sound/mind/matter) sessions. This ongoing research has been crucial to a personal artistic development, while also resonating in other socially creative aspects, through invaluable interactions, idea exchange and practical critique. ⁣⁣⁣
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In this conversation, let us all discover more on our comprehension (and/or imagination) of the subject matter made available by Shane’s artworks. ⁣⁣⁣

About the Artist

Shane Aspegren’s work juxtaposes improvisational languages within carefully-crafted frameworks, frequently exploring a cross-discipline and non-dualistic perspective on such topics as consciousness, ritual, group dynamics, societal customs, and human response to natural phenomena.

Aspegren is largely known for his practices related to music and sound, which often play an integral part in his installations, images, videos, objects, and performances. Interested in the relational aesthetics of every form, he often uses interactive and collaborative methods of creation, as well as the practical application of those methods, such as his ongoing work with meditative practices — specifically the effects of sound waves and its effects on the human mind and physical matter of the body.

As a musician/ composer, he has performed hundreds of concerts worldwide, in addition to an extensive recorded discography. His artworks have been presented, commissioned, collected, and performed at institutions, museums, and galleries throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.

Wu Jiaru is one of the very few Hausians who has been engaging to HART Haus Social Studio for over a year - the transformations of her art making always intrigued the HART team, we observe the influences and exchanges that she impacted the evolving community in the studio, and vice versa. Taking this opportunity producing the exhibition with her, we would like to learn about how the artist perceives her own approaches and practices in art making, hoping to also discover more on her views on spectators’ responses.

In the same occasion, HART invited two of our community members to join the conversation - Rose Fu, our intern from CUHK New Asia College, and Cassie Liu, our young student Hausian , the fresh graduate from HKBU Academy of Visual Arts, who is also the winner of HART Award for Moving Image at the 2020 Graduate Show.

About the Artist

Wu Jiaru is one of the very few Hausians who has been engaging to HART Haus Social Studio for over a year - the transformations of her art making always intrigued the HART team, we observe the influences and exchanges that she impacted the evolving community in the studio, and vice versa. Taking this opportunity producing the exhibition with her, we would like to learn about how the artist perceives her own approaches and practices in art making, hoping to also discover more on her views on spectators’ responses.

In the same occasion, HART invited two of our community members to join the conversation - Rose Fu, our intern from CUHK New Asia College, and Cassie Liu, our young student Hausian , the fresh graduate from HKBU Academy of Visual Arts, who is also the winner of HART Award for Moving Image at the 2020 Graduate Show.

The Sovereign Art Foundation’s Make It Better (MIB) programme works with young children in some of Hong Kong’s socio-economically deprived communities, running workshops that offer empowering learning activities reinforced by expressive-arts. MIB also provides workshops and training to support caregivers, teachers and social workers of these children.

In this session Yana Ng, registered Art Therapist and Lead Course Planner for the MIB programme, will discuss some of the challenges that individuals and organisations can face when developing an expressive-arts programme. After providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of the MIB programme in Hong Kong, Ng will share her own expertise and explain, from an art therapy perspective, how to maximise the impact of expressive arts and art-making within programmes for both children and adults with different needs. Practical skills will be covered in an hour-long workshop to follow the initial presentation.

The event will be conducted in English.

Date: 29th February, 2020 (Saturday)
Time: 10am to 12pm
Venue: HART Haus
Capacity: 15 persons
*Participants are requested to bring with them a bag with 5 recycled or natural items for the art-making activity.*

Free admission

About the Speaker

About the Organisers

HART
Established in 2018, HART is a new arts initiative to explore art and space and artful community catalysts. Through the HART collective of art spaces, we aim to revitalise a culture of creativity with active participation and focus on the process of hands-on making. Over time HART will encompass an experimental and evolving platform of programmes and arts spaces in Hong Kong.​

The Sovereign Art Foundation
The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) was established in 2003 with a well-defined twin focus: to recognise the growing wealth of contemporary art talent in Asia and bring the proven benefits of expressive arts to disadvantaged children. The beauty of this model is that we can achieve both goals in an eminently sustainable way. The Sovereign Asian Art Prize – now the largest and most established contemporary art prize in Asia-Pacific – raises funds by auctioning artworks that reach the final stage of the competition. Proceeds are then shared equally between the artists and the Foundation, to fund charitable projects across Asia.

To learn more about SAF: https://www.sovereignartfoundation.com/

HART is honored to be able to invite Howard Bilton, Founder and Chairman of The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF), to come to share with us his experience in promoting art especially in Asia through the establishment of the Foundation.

In this session, Bilton will introduce and discuss the accomplishments of SAF and its annual art award, The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, in promoting the careers of artists across Asia Pacific and bringing the best of the region’s contemporary art to the Hong Kong public through its programme of exhibitions and art auctions. As a seasoned collector, Bilton will also offer his own insights into building a successful art collection.

The event will be conducted in English.

Date: 12th February, 2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: HART Haus

Free admission

About the Speaker

About the Organisers

HART
Established in 2018, HART is a new arts initiative to explore art and space and artful community catalysts. Through the HART collective of art spaces, we aim to revitalise a culture of creativity with active participation and focus on the process of hands-on making. Over time HART will encompass an experimental and evolving platform of programmes and arts spaces in Hong Kong.​

The Sovereign Art Foundation
The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) was established in 2003 with a well-defined twin focus: to recognise the growing wealth of contemporary art talent in Asia and bring the proven benefits of expressive arts to disadvantaged children. The beauty of this model is that we can achieve both goals in an eminently sustainable way. The Sovereign Asian Art Prize – now the largest and most established contemporary art prize in Asia-Pacific – raises funds by auctioning artworks that reach the final stage of the competition. Proceeds are then shared equally between the artists and the Foundation, to fund charitable projects across Asia.

To learn more about SAF: https://www.sovereignartfoundation.com/