Tian Tian Xiang Shang @ Vancouver by Zuni Icosahedron

Tian Tian Xiang Shang @Vancouver - An Exhibition of Creative Cultural Exchange

Nelson Square (808 Nelson Street, Vancouver BC V6Z 2H2) April 21 - May 21, 2017

Curator's words Welcome to the Tian Tian Xiang Shang (day after day, looking up) Program. Please enjoy the explorative laboratory. The Chinese proverb Tian Tian Xiang Shang appeared in the front gate of every primary school in the 1950s in China. I became utterly concerned about our education system of Hong Kong and Greater China, my concern also goes to the whole world. Institutional reform is slow and affected by institution culture. Advocacy, creativity and cross sectors discourses are missing in our education and cultural institutes. I have created the Black Box Exercise for the children in the 1990s, it was a game designed with critical review of our arts institution (museum and cultural center). The project was widely discussed in Europe. In the mid 2000, I expanded my conceptual comic strip of same name, Tian Tian Xiang Shang, to include 3D workshops, education forum and cross sector exhibition, the workshop involved full participation of children, parents, teachers and artists. The forum involved front line education practitioners, while the exhibits brought along creativity, dialogue and advocacy of all sectors; business, political, social and educational, especially with our coming generations. Have fun! Danny Yung 2017

TTXS Concept Tian Tian Xiang Shang Danny Yung

Tian Tian Xiang Shang (make progress everyday) is a Chinese proverb that Mao Zedong once said in the 1950s to motivate children. This proverb inspired me to create a conceptual comic in 1970s in which I drew children who asked an un-ending barrage of questions and refused to focus on their studies. To me, Tian Tianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white, three-dimensional body is like a blank piece of paper full of possibilities that people can write or draw on. The person who invented blank paper is a truly artistic designer; the material, dimension, shape and texture of blank paper are all measures of the designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creativity. A blank sheet of paper is a platform or vessel that people can write, express themselves and discuss things on. Our thoughts are expressed in what we write; this expression of our thoughts can be discussed; and the contents of these discussions could become further platforms or vessels for creativity. The more that is written, expressed and discussed, the more likely it is that creativity will be brought forth.

TTXS Events

Hong Kong: Creative Ecologies – Business, Living, Creativity Design Exhibition

TTXS – Soliloquies and Dialogues in Ann Arbor

Cross Boundary – Art Lab of Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

"Hong Kong + Japan: Crossing Partnership in Creativity" project – "Tian Tian Xiang Shang" statue exhibition-cum-workshop

EXIT Festival and the VIA Festival

Tian Tian Xiang Shang Exhibition in Singapore

Tian Tian Xiang Shang Conceptual Comics Exhibition in Singapore

Shanghai: Tian Tian Xiang Shang – Hong Kong Creativity Exhibition cum Seminar

Tian Tian Xiang Shang at Novel Hall Lane, Taipei

International Children’s Festival Celebration Exhibition in Beijing

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Tian Tian Xiang Shang: Creativityfor-Community and School Development Programme

Tian Tian Xiang Shang Gateway— Danny Yung’s Bamboo Structure-Flower Plaque Installation, 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Tian Tian Xiang Shang iSQUARE Exhibition

Tian Tian Fa Pau Public Arts

Beijing Design Week 2013 – New Generation Design Exhibition

Tian Tian Xiang Shang Gateway—2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Tian Tian Xiang Shang Blank Boy Canvas Exhibition Series

Tian Tian Fa Pau Public Arts

Hong Kong: Constant Change

ANIMAMIX BIENNALE 2015-2016

Workshop in Vancouver

TTXS Temple Street Public Arts Action

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The TTXS Creative Collaboration Programme The TTXS Creative Collaboration Programme will focus specifically on bringing about social changes; and unifying arts, design and culture through tri-sector partnerships that will provide rigorous content â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for instance, proposing relevant skills, models, and tools to develop sustainable solutions. Tri-sector collaboration provides rigorous interdisciplinary dialogues that delve deeply into strategic thinking on partnerships that connect government, business, and creative practitioners. Professionals and stakeholders from all sectors are increasingly aware of the importance of multi-sector partnerships. Singapore and Seoul government officials, for example, are more often saying they need to work with other sectors. It is vital to ensure that leaders in the public and private sectors are able to engage closely with one another. This programme aptly provides the basis for this to occur even more effectively in future. In each edition of the TTXS roving exhibition, we invited local artists, designers and city mayors or cultural ministers of our close network to participate. Our objective is to brand Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative industry through the cross-cultural dialogue and the international network initiated and built by TTXS, Zuni and HKICC.

TTXS @ Vancouver All of the Tian Tian exhibits included in this programme brochure will be taking turns exhibited in Nelson Square, exhibition goers and passers-by would have different experience of every visit. These exhibits will also be shown online at curiousandcreative.com.

BLANK BOY CANVAS EXHIBITs Blank Boy Canvas is a spin-off collaboration project that unifies modern art culture and North American talents with Hong Kong’s creative godfather, Danny Yung and his comic strip character ‘Tian Tian’. Yung derived Tian Tian's name from the Chinese proverb Tian Tian Xiang Shang (Everyday Looking Up). The 50 cm tall three-dimensional canvas has been given to artists to freely express, create or alter the subject while exploring the theme of infinite possibilities while capturing the inquisitive and innocent nature of youth. The collaboration has been brought to North America in an exhibit designed to stimulate conversation about creative reasoning and the individual approach to creative execution and will be exhibited throughout North American and Asian cities in 2016 through 2017.

TTXS Conceptual Comic Collaboration The conceptual comic collection is characterized into one-frame, three-frame, four-frame and nine-frame creations. The nine-frame series which were further developed in 2008, mainly sets out to explore Space, Narrative Structure and Perception. Twenty four pieces are created by Yung while another ten of them are Yung's collaboration with prominent artists/creative talents based in Hong Kong.

Tian Tian Xiang Shang @ Vancouver exhibition floor plan

On stands - 50cm Tian Tian by Vancouver, North American and Hong Kong Artists

On floor - 4-frame Comic by Danny Yung 12cm Tian Tian by Vancouver, Japan and Hong Kong Children

1.6m Chinese Zodiac Tian Tian by Hong Kong Artists

On glass - 9-frame Comic by Danny Yung and Hong Kong Artists

HAPPY YEAR OF THE ROOSTER 2017

HONG KONG Artists Danny Yung (Creator of Tian Tian Xiang Shang; Co-Artistic Director of Zuni Icosahedron) The TTXS spirit of creativity is a symbol of Hong Kong culture in its versatile, open, participatory, diverse and transfrontier uniqueness. Building a platform for transgenerational, transcultural and transregional collaborations on experimental creative exchange is the key infrastructure for the culture of Hong Kong. With a knowledge-based repository, we can then work together using cultural perspectives to find creative solutions to break the spell cast upon Hong Kong's social, political and economic dimensions in issues such as town planning, education and environmental protection.

Mathias Woo (Co-Artistic Director cum Executive Director of Zuni Icosahedron)

YEAR OF RABBIT

Yu Yat-yiu @PMPS (Composer)

YEAR OF DOG

Lai Tat Tat Wing (Comic Artist)

YEAR OF SNAKE

1.6m Chinese Zodiac Tian Tian

HONG KONG Artists 1.6m Chinese Zodiac Tian Tian

Jim Chu (Visual / Graphic Designer)

YEAR OF TIGER

Leumas To (Illustrator, Curator)

YEAR OF RAT

Wong Chi Yung (Light-Art Artist)

YEAR OF MONKEY

Dio Lau (Visual Artist / Graphic Designer)

YEAR OF PIG

HONG KONG Artists 1.6m Chinese Zodiac Tian Tian

Melody Yiu (Urban Designer)

YEAR OF HORSE

Lo Sing-Chin (Costume Designer)

YEAR OF GOAT

Anais Mak (Fashion Designer)

YEAR OF OX

Stephanie Loo (Illustrator)

YEAR OF DRAGON

* The present 12 Chinese Zodiac Tian Tian were re-worked by Lai Tat Tat Wing

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Lyse Lemieux

Heather Baker

Drew Shaffer

Josh Hon * These latest editions to the exhibition will be unveiled at the opening reception in Nelson Square and on the website of

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Link Leisure/ David Malachi Robinson 09

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LOVEBOT Matthew Del Degan Love/Fear Fear causes darkness, love creates light.

MUERTITOS DE HAMBRE (MDH)

Elisabeth Weinstock

EL TAQUERO BLANK BOY

Darby Darby comes from a good family, or so it looked on the outside. Inside is a creative, passionate, and poetic boy that is drawn to the underdog and anti establishment on all fronts. As a result, he does what he wants, is driven by love and courage, music, art and honor. He will thrash forward avoiding trends and trying to fit in where he doesn’t, rather, he will go out of is way find suits that share similar beliefs, experiences, and likes. Darby has been called a Punk in the past, but reality is, he’s creating his own path in life and taking no prisioners.

Taqueros to me are one of the many underappreciated funky characters that inhabit and give life to Mexico City and the rest of the country. Additionaly, tacos are a dish most people around the world can identify, so much is their influence and popularity that many countries have put their own spin on them: American, Korean, Chinese and even Japanese inspired tacos. Suddenly, a dish becomes more than fuel it becomes a way of sharing ideas!

Trying to explain Mexico without mentioning our deep relationship with gastronomy or death is near impossible. The daily routine in the city and the country revolves around food; holidays and festivities arent complete with some sort of meal. During the traditional “Día de Muertos” one of the most vital parts of the altar is to place food that was loved by the deceased. There is no way around it, we want to enjoy food even if we are “gone”.

Painting on Tian Tian was exciting due to the fact that the project started two dimensionally with Danny Yung in Hong Kong, the figurines gained momentum in Toronto and finally because it was intriguing to make the “Muertitos” three dimensionally. The numerous “tattoos” around his arms are a way of exchanging his culture with others and also as a reminder that no matter how far he travels or the people he meets or the crazy adventures he gets into, his home is Mexico.

Justin Pape An Offering Acrylic, Gold Leaf Paint, Purpleheart Wood, Found items In 2014 I spent 6 months living in China and visiting Hong Kong once a month. While there I fell in love with the small alters seen outside storefronts and homes burning joss incense and providing offering for those who have passed on to another world. This Blank Boy features a shrine with items I found while in China and is painted with a red crowned crane, a symbol of immortality.

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Jeff Blackburn Put Your Hood Up This piece is an exploration of a figure I initially drew as a sticker design. When the opportunity came to create a figure with Blank Boy, this ‘Put Your Hood Up’ concept seemed the only option to me. I wanted to examine the surface contrast of fur and bone, and see if it was possible to bring this character into the third dimension using only paint.

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Chris Dyer

Talwst

Oscar He is a dragonic warrior yet innocent and playful with open-hearted vibes, and with an open bottom ready to take a dump whenever he’s in the mood. A galactic child that I held in my arms for 2 weeks, as practice for some future child of my own, thus the name I already have set up for my future son, awaiting on the other side of the physical plane.

Negus With World On His Finger I am currently engaged with my Infinity series of miniature dioramas in reclaimed ring boxes. An exploration across cultures and time periods, through these works I aim to draw attention to absent or misinterpreted narratives, suggest the non-linear complexities of history, and explore relationships between cultures. I have engaged with various topics through sub-series in my works, including inserting marginalized narratives into art history and popular culture and drawing parallels between moments of unrest in global history. Of particular interest to me is the location and exploration of the black experience in Canada which is multifarious and ripe for investigation.

Jon Todd Ghost Totem In this piece titled Ghost Totem, Todd continues to explore themes of life and death. The totem skin pattern was inspired by a series of outsider collages. This intricately composed pattern was created by re-purposing, cutting and splicing old paintings and drawings and assembling them into an expressive abstract collage.

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CJ Hungerman Blank Boy Buzzer The blank boy canvas was created utilizing my personal icons and psychedelic color patterns. This design was inspired by my friend and colleague Hebru Brantley…it is an homage to his Fly Boy murals one can see in Chicago, throughout, United States and internationally. Space is the Place.

Janice Colbert

I LOVE YOU Hard-edge painting of geometric quilt-designs on birch panel has been my signature for a decade. At this juncture I was thrilled with the opportunity to try something unfamiliar: painting on a threedimensional form. From the start, I visualized Tian in a Tumbling-Block patterned shirt and jeans with a Grandmother’s-Flower motif. Initially I struggled with the process until I learned how to work with acrylics on plastic. Six weeks of artistic growth replaced the uncertainty. My parting present—the friendship bracelet—reveals my affection for Tian. Its message is a fundamental affirmation that all children should hear every day.

Soy AKA James Big Take Over This piece is astro boy-meets-skate-punk. It is jeans and t-shirt wrapped in a counter cultural sensibilities. The image on the shirt pays homage to the 1982 record cover by Bad Brains, evoking the harder than hard riffs and messages born out of American Hardcore movement especially through the lens of Rastafarian ideology. This piece is about fusion, a visual mash up of influences, a voice from West Indian diaspora, of youth and the imagery associated with it. It is a face of the faceless; it is taking a blank (boy) canvas and expressing self, making a visual statement.

John Shook Big Boy Besides representing some of his friends, back in the “burgh”, by the patches on his pants, BIGBOY represents our metaphoric “layers of existence” that were forgotten. One could view these layers as a blueprint of past lives or even as to look into ourselves through the many depths and reflect upon how we all start as innocent beings with a clean slate and how the child, when growing up, remains within. As time passes by, there are moments when we walk along our paths unknowing who we could be due to the transmissions that rule the masses that are focused on a singular direction for consumption. Losing touch with just being, creating, and loving, we become distant from our inner child until he or she is just a memory. The drones produced will follow and repeat as centuries go by, consuming, until the child is no longer allowed to be a child anymore. Some watch and observe in a manner of Henry David Thoreau just trying to make sense of the issues at hand. We’re living in a day and age where anything is possible, unlike any other in mankind’s known history while our finite resources act as the Krutch that’s holding up the weight of an infrastructure that’s to be handed down to our children, while the garbage dumps fill with “obsolete” technology, and profit is valued more than the environment. We sometimes look at each other as strangers instead of sisters and brothers and pass judgment without knowing one another. Ronald Reagan commented, in a couple of his speeches, about how Humanity would come together if a threat came from outer space and how aliens were already among us. If you Google it you’ll see. We exist on this fragile blue planet with the moon hive high in the sky keeping watch. De-engineered technology and World Wars go hand and hand. Humans have “advanced” and will continue to “advance” faster and faster, blindly flying at full speed at whatever comes ahead as we ride the wave of those who figured it out for us. This is the perfect time to find ourselves or to become a stranger to ourselves. If the Human ego can be diluted, the light will shine awakening our third eye. Self realization is realizing that all living things are connected.

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Andrew “Rcade” Kidder Sad Clown When I was young my father painted a picture of a sad clown, today this picture hangs on my wall. When I first saw the Blank Boy sculpture, I imagined him as a sad clown that sees a brighter day ahead. I used enamel oil with high gloss to highlight a bright and optimistic future, despite the clowns expression, giving the overall feeling of playfulness.

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Jessica Volpe

Golden Boy Next to water, gold is one of the world’s most precious elements. It is a material that has consistently mesmerized and intrigued generations of people from every corner of the world for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations often casted images of their Gods in gold for worship. By painting the Tian Tian Xiang gold I have transformed a modern day, plastic toy, in the image of a child, into a godlike idol to be revered. Children are this world’s greatest resource. Their fresh perspective, honesty and optimism should be more precious to us than any other element in this world. They are beacons of hope and a great source of wisdom. Priding myself in having a youthful spirit and being playful at heart I hope this work will not only awaken the viewer’s childlike curiosity and wonderment, but will also encourage the viewer to consider the critical role that young people play in our world and our society.

Henry Arthur Submerged to his forehead in water, a pessimist sees sinking. But an optimist sees the moment before coming to the surface, spit from the sea like a cork. Which view will persist and decide is determined by what lies beneath the surface. This narrative sides firmly with optimism, candy-coated to the point of near-complete dismantlement of all possible threat. Lions and sharks look on, but the ability to look up is the essence of the optimist. And of Tian Tian.

Emily May Rose Nature/Nurture I like thinking of the figure as an abstract canvas rather than an actual figure, and portraying on that the idea of childhood innocence. In doing so, I used a forest in a rain storm as a metaphor for growth and potential as it exists in children, who require nurturing in the same way the forest requires rainfall. With proper care, they thrive.

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Doug Brown Sirius The question: “What is our place in the universe” might just be genetically encoded in our species. All known cultures across all of time have attempted to answer that question. Today we ask the same question, but with fewer words: “Are we alone?” Together we search the universe for answers.

Wysper

@1% @1% represents how youth today have grown alongside technological advancements that have seen devices like the smart phone evolve into part of their identity. I was inspired by kids coming to visit my studio and the first thing they will ask me is if they can plug in their devices because they are at 1%. Coming from a graffiti background, my peers identity was shrouded in mystery of elusive urban legends. It is a contrast to today where youth comment, document and express their lives through a shared unfiltered network. What happens if they find themselves cut off from their device, what does it mean for their identity? Through my work on Blank Boy Canvas, I explore the relationship youth have with their devices and how it shapes them. Will the opportunities and success of our youth be based on how apt or inapt they are with technology?

Sebastian Eismann Moon Child ‘Moon Child’ is the story of a boy reaching from the darkness of the nocturnal earth to the bright shine of the moon. It is about loneliness and companionship – As the moon goes along with the earth, its light goes along with the boy and illuminates his way in wise guidance. And on his adventurous journey through life, time and space the young boy gets to be one with the moon – living in a world of constant change and transition. But no matter how desperate and hopeless his situation may be at any time, he always finds his way out of the dark and into the light. The piece itself shows the situation from the boy’s point of view. As he follows the light to get out of a dark cave and catches a glimpse of the moon sparkling above the sea.

Art Child @artchild416

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Bryan Espiritu I Need You Food, clothing and shelter are the basic necessities a parent is required by law to provide for their children. But a child’s basic needs also includes affection, a sense of safety, and unconditional love. Without the guidance, positive examples and active presence of nurturing parental figures children lose their innocence rapidly, are forced to take an adult indifference early, and ultimately never grow up as a result of never having lived through the proper growth stages of life. It is every parents role to see that through.

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Elicser Elliott

Dei-Dei We love collaborating. It is a blessing to be a part of this project with Danny Yung. The message behind this piece is special to us. Day by day, we find ourselves looking up, to our friends and family, within ourselves and to the stars. We believe in each being’s perfection, yet potential for growth, as well as our humanity’s ability to transcend suffering and self-destruction.

Weezy F Baby The traditional spirit of folk creative work in Hong Kong is rooted in bold experimentations, open and limitless interactions, collaborations and dialogues…And owing to this rebellious vitality, folk art gradually crystallizes into the unique vernacular wisdom. ELICSER crystallizes this Eastern spirit of folk art as Western hip hop icon WEEZY F. BABY.

The name Dei-Dei comes from the name of the statue by Danny Yung. In English, the name, Tian Tian, translates to ‘Day Day’. To us, the boy represents divinity in all and a future generation of positivity and enlightenment. Thus, we named him Dei-Dei. As humans, we have the ability to wear different ‘skins’, in order to face different situations. Dei-Dei wears the head of a Water Dragon, to represent fluidity and courage. The Koi fish swim around his torso towards each other, to meet in an eternal dance around his center. Known for their beauty and strength, they represent prosperity and longevity. There are chakras along Dei-Dei for balance, fullness and openness. Each energetic center maintains harmony with all other energies throughout the universe. Paradeyes (Paradise – Eyes) is depicted on the back of Dei-Dei’s thighs. We create the reality that surrounds us, as well as the world we live in, and much of that is determined by the way we choose to see the world. May we maintain a world of abundance – with clean air and fresh water. Dei-Dei’s arm, pointing up, contains the mysteries of our entire solar system. Always looking up, with curiosity and high aspirations, Dei-Dei will continue to shoot for the stars. A staircase leads from his heart to his throat. There, an open entrance to a sacred temple reminds us that communication is divine.

Weezy Veruacular Wisdom F is for fly. F is for fresh. F is for flow. F is for fame, fortune and fashion. F is not for failing. F is for finish line. F is for phenomenal. F is for forget it, figure it out yourself. F is for inFINITE possibilities – ELICSER x WEEZY x TIAN TIAN

We are grateful to share ourselves and experiences through our art, and transfuse love and light in all that we do, and through Deidei.

Allister Lee

May there be Well Being in All May there be Peace in All May there be Fulfilment in All May there be Auspiciousness in All

Inspector Black Cat Inspired by the ever-changing Shanghai skyline, Inspector Black Cat represents the historic comic book themed circus-like children rides gradually removed from the old Shanghai, replaced with shiny new developments and western ideologies.

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Gary Wintle @garywintle Carnal Virtue When a hand becomes a fist, is it still a hand? When does objective reality end and conceptual reality begin? Good and evil we see as opposite ends of a spectrum, but what drives these thoughts? Reality or ego? Culture and time itself blur these lines and reveal a deeper truth within.

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Nelson Dedos Garcia

CABEZA DE CELULOIDE The creation of this little guy was inspired by my childhood. It is always great to have a new blank canvas in your hands, lending many opportunities to create anything you want. But for this particular situation, I decided to do something different than the work which characterize my style. I thought about my childhood and immediately remembered the toys my mom used to have when she was a kid. She had them at my house and I played a lot with them. I remember this one that “could speak” in particular, and decided to create one of my own, so it is a great memory which has also a nostalgic side with all this memories.

Infinite Potencial! Infinite Potencial! is a reflection of how I observe the gift given to all humanity, as long as we don’t stifle ourselves and inhibit its truest nature which is allowing the soul to express itself through its vessel.

ARTY & CHIKLE TORA BOY Tora Boy is a cute, innocent yet playful tiger who likes to travel and make new friends whenever he has the chance to. We are very happy and satisfied with him and we are sure he will have lots of fun abroad and meet lots of new friends!

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BUCHSBAUM GILBERT Gilbert, though he looks quite dead, he is not.Well, neither is he alive. He is dead alive. He represents our inner child, killed, buried and forgotten once adulthood comes knocking at our door along with the responsibilities that accompany it. But worry not, because Gilbert remembers you.It doesn’t matter how hard you are “adulting” or how deep you bury him, Gilbert always finds a way out of oblivion to remind us we were him. Do you remember when you were Gilbert? How you played, how you would dream, and how everything was magical, new and wonderful, before you had to grow up…Do you?

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AHN Hye Jin Spatial & Product Designer PIORA may you bloom, may you glow. Piora is the main theme of the project that AHN Hye Jin continues to work on. The project PIORA is inspired by Korean word 피어라 , literally means ‘let it blossom’. Tian Tian is covered with simplified paper petals. The paper petals are symbolic of incomplete dream yet about to bloom. It signifies that each one of the paper petal is everyone’s hope, wish and passion. www.designpiora. com

Alan CHAN Designer, Brand Consultant & Artist

Barney CHENG Fashion Designer 大雄大指 In a pun on words, instead of meaning ‘fantabulously HOT’ TTXS in Barney’s couture trained hands becomes a query into society’s definition of traditional male role models- would he be emasculated by being shrouded in lacquer red lace? Can a glimmer of reflected glory in his eyes be interpreted as coy in mainstream society? Can celebrity help propagate change in our social consciousness? Can TTXS point us in the right direction please?

The red scarf is a symbol of Young Pioneers of China, The extended red scarf with CHAN’s initial “A” becomes the signature red cape of superman, responding to the theme Tian Tian Xiang Shang (literally means making progress everyday), a famous idiom of President Mao for the children. It also symbolizes the new generation can be as omnipotent as a superman if they work harder.

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CHOI Kim Hung @C+C Workshop Visual/Graphic Designer This is the older Tian Tian. Not sure what he is looking for, or if he has got what he desires, all I know is he will not easily give up.

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Henry CHU

Jim CHU

@pill & pillow Wed Design & new media artist

Visual / Graphic Designer

Try to imagine if we are not moving upward (Xiang Shang) in a city like Hong Kong? How should we keep up with the speed of development? I hope being creative is a way out.

Half Step Step forward step back Thinking it over and over In between say and think, that's half step in difference

Christine FANG Adjunt Professor, The University of Hong Kong Department of Social Work and Social Administration Despite experiencing hardship, he lives a full life with vigor and happiness, holding up to the justice and making progress every day.

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May FUNG Independent Art & Cultural Worker An art work reflecting on social politics.

JOEY HO

@Joey HO Design Limited Architectural & Interior Designer

Jinno NEKO Bamboo Framework & Paper-mĂ˘chĂŠ Artist Goldfish/ Kid I just want to paint some goldfishes* on the kid and there is no hidden agenda at all. *In Buddhism, the goldfishes symbolize happiness, as they have complete freedom in water. In Chinese way, goldfishes are identical with the two words meaning "Gold and Abundance" therefore many Chinese keep goldfish at home or in ponds.

Ken HUI Creative Director Creative Angel A designer is an angel on earth, here to help the world through his creativity and ideas.

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KAN Tai Keung Visual/Graphic Designer & Artist Every time I see Tian Tian I think of the saying Tiān Tiān Xiàng Shàng , Hǎo Hào Xué Xí which means looking up towards my goals everyday and studying hard. Ever since I chose my path in art and design, I have never stopped learning. After years of working day and night, I started thinking that I must learn to let go of certain demands of myself that I have set too high. In 2010, I wrote a Tian Tian diary on top of my Tian Tian figurine; today, I write lines of dialogue on the front and the back of his T-shirt.

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Tara KO / Polly LAY @Escafe studio Visual/Graphic Designer Creativity grows like a weed.

Kathy KUK / CHAN Ka Tat @Graphic Airlines Multi-media Designer & Illustrator Even though we are only dust within the vast and ever expanding universe, but within us we all have our little universe with infinite power. There was never a beginning nor an end, life is journey without boundaries and limitations waiting for us to experience and discover.

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Kathy KUK / CHAN Ka Tat @Graphic Airlines Multi-media Designer & Illustrator

Joseph KUNG

Principal of Shung Tak Catholic English College

LAI Tat Tat Wing Cartoonist & Illustrator Hands of different workshop participants cast the best impression in my mind.

Eman LAM Musician / Singer I seriously doubt if people know where their beauty lie. How many lies we could make about our beauty, I wonder.

Passing the Torch As an educator, leader of children, it is an exceptionally important task and responsibility to educate the next generation. We are role models to the children. We are to be like a Superman, be always put the needs of others in front and to be brave in times of adversities.

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Freeman LAU Designer, Public Art/Sculpture Artist Mirror Mirror, Looking for me in you In the fast-paced modern world, we often rush forward forgetting to reflect upon ourselves. In fact, in order to attain the perfect self, it is necessary to always look into the mirror in our hearts, dig out our weaknesses and amend them. We should be self-reflexive and strive to do better, so we can run faster and go further.

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Look up and take big strides ahead, Look inwards and search for the self within, every night before bed.

Karen LEE

Jewelry Designer

Michael LEUNG

Flowers and butterflies are like art and life; Life moves our hearts so that we can create, And the creations move others, so that others will get inspired...

Visual/Graphic, Product & Spatial Designer

LI Chi Tak Cartoonist Tian Tian became a little part of the outer space. People on earth trying to challenge the outer space might end up weeping in the burning sun.

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Tommy LI Branding Consultant/Designer

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Every time I heard subjects like real estate appreciation, Hong Kong core value and such, I feel like people seem to demand equal value or even best value almost on everything, but is this what Hongkongers really need? In fact, in a society where the law of the jungle prevails, survival of the fittest dominates, what we really need is a transparent and democratic system to ensure our rights as a Hong Kong citizen. Although the result varies from one to another, birdcage politics would only nourish narrow-minded and foolish citizen, not the future master of a strong country.

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William LIM

Founder of Blackpaper, Lyricist & Writer

Architect & Visual Artist

I just wanted to move upwards, but then you hanged me.

Ellen LOO Musician/ Singer I see myself on barren fields, tangled up in my own obsession, but I wear a badge high up on my chest, it keeps me company more than it gives me pride. This piece was made out of 100% trash, or should I say trash in some folk's minds, used guitar strings and string rings. The used melody is my backpack, it encircles my past as well as my anticipation.

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Man Lai Hong Product Designer

Karen POW Mural and Mosaic Artist Someone says, "Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stare at her!" The other says, "She has been cursed!" Another says, "You will meet adversity after staring at her!" Nevertheless, I decide to figure her out!

Baldwin PUI @hoiming Fashion/Accessories Designer

Aries SIN @MODEMENT Fashion/Accessories Designer EXCHANGE Our nature is the important resource to us, as treasonable as good. We always said the land in Hong Kong is as expensive as gold. Sometimes, we sacrifice our environment for a better living. Is it necessary to concentrate on the profit margin only instead of making a balance between nature and commercial? Tian Tian was covered by the map of Hong Kong, which decorated with sequins and green velveteen, showing the importance and valuable of our nature, like gold. The flower on the tip of Tian Tian means the original and pure relationship between human and nature. Hoping that we could always remember there is always an equation there. Otherwise, we would suffer from what we destroyed one day.

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Vivienne TAM Fashion Designer Tian Tian is quietly having tea with himself in a nice airy chamber inside a Chinese Garden. It must be autumn. Of course the birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye view of the Chinese Garden and chamber are but an illustration of hand paint artwork. All transformed into the blue flower china on to Tian Tian.

TAM Mui Fong Visual Arts Teacher of Sha Tin Government Secondary School Up or Down? Male or female? Progress or backward? Is there any reason to draw a line as such?

teelocker Visual/Graphic Design "Breaking through" is the theme. Holding up to one's principles is the key to break through all the confines, and making progress every day.

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John TSANG Ex-Financial Secretary of HKSARG

Justin WONG

Comic Writer & Media Artist

Jessey TSANG

Looking up at the sky, Tian Tian seems to have thousands of words to say. But without a mouth, he can only use text balloons……to convey message. Talking through balloons... Isn’t it a comic?

Film Director

Stanley WONG (anothermountainman) Visual Communicator positive hongkong redwhiteblue is existence, participation, devotion and commitment redwhiteblue is perseverance, diligence and endurance redwhiteblue like the hong kong people of 1960s and 1970s…… the most important thing is that our hong kong family should remain unchanged for 50 years: keep positive, keep going

Pokka dots is the theme, the while dots spread all over Tian Tian symbolize the perseverance in bringing more colours in life.

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Stanley WONG (anothermountainman) Visual Communicator

Anthony WONG

Musician / Singer

WONG Wan Mei

Nowadays, people will pick up a camera or a mobile phone to snap when they see something interesting or making new friends, now, please do so and scan me with your phone.

@Goldfish Creative Visual/Graphic & Product Designer My creation of Tian Tian is called Butterflies. My inspiration has come from my new born baby boy. It is like many butterflies dancing with happiness and joy. It is full of hope and energy.

Toby YEUNG Multi-media Designer

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YEUNG Chin

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Fashion/Accessories Designer I like to find some new design aesthetic through trial and error, and to see challenging the accepted aesthetic as a design philosophy. A new aesthetic have to break the old aesthetics. I use different art concepts to challenge the concept of fashion for the sake of searching for new approaches in presenting fashion. For instance, I have tried to make some clothes that restrict dancer’s movement in order to challenge the accepted aesthetic in dance. In turn, using dance movement to challenge the catwalk presentation, and using installation art concept to put the catwalk in a gallery. Fat is Fashion is another project I did in a gallery to let people experience “being fat is beautiful” in an installation where visitors putting on some clothing items created by inflated materials. My idea of fashion in future is about using different ways to present my view of fashion, while movie and sculpture are my future directions.

Lio YEUNG Visual Artist & Art Director Chess game has rules, Life doesn’t.

Lio YEUNG Visual Artist & Art Director

Rocco YIM Architect The silent white Tian Tian radiates a sense of sadness and helplessness. I try to give him hope for self-determination, and a positive energy embodying assurance and confidence.

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YIP Wing Sie Music Director, Hong Kong Sinfonietta Tian Tian Xiang Shangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;My Father My father, Dr YIP Wai Hong, is never short of ideas and energy where music is concerned. It is with a child's fearless strive and spirit that he has succeeded in making the impossibles possible.

Pius YIU Hair Stylist You have the positive force of Tian Tian Xiang Shang no matter what your background, race, style, taste, social or economic status is. Head in the right direction, make everyday count!

Louis YU Executive Director, Performing Arts West Kowloon Cultural District Authority We presented three Conceptual Plan Options for the future West Kowloon Cultural District to the public by three of the world's renowned master planning teams to reflect the Hong Kong of today, and its dreams of an arts and cultural hub for tomorrow. Today, we put forward a proposed Development Plan based on the concept by Foster + Partners, which was favoured by the people of Hong Kong. We have enhanced the preferred Conceptual Plan and incorporated desirable features from the other two master plans wherever appropriate to make the Cultural District a place to relax and be inspired. It will be, in every aspect, a Place for Everyone.

Hong Kong Designers'/Artists' Bio 1.6m Chinese zodiac Tian Tian Danny Yung

Lai Tat Tat Wing

Artist of Tian Tian Xiang Shang Conceptual Comics and Figures Co-Artistic Director of Zuni Icosahedron

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An experimental art pioneer, Yung is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in Hong Kong and the neighbouring regions, and an advocate in experimental arts and new art forms. Yung has contributed significantly to the provision of a platform for both acclaimed and emerging artists to explore and carry out crossdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration. In 2008, with Tears of Barren Hill he was honoured the Music Theatre NOW Award by International Theatre Institute. In 2009, Yung was conferred the Merit Cross of the Order of Merit on Ribbon by the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his contribution to the arts and cultural exchange between Germany and Hong Kong. Yung is also the laureate of the 2014 Fukuoka Prize – Arts and Cultural Prize. Currently Yung is also Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Alliance of World Cultural Forum, Convener of the Chinese Creative Industries Forum, Chairperson of the Hong Kong – Taipei – Shenzhen – Shanghai City-to-City Cultural Exchange Conference, Member of Design Council of Hong Kong and Board Member of the Lee Shau Kee Hong Kong School of Creativity.

Mathias Woo Theatre Director

Mathias Woo leads a career as a scriptwriter, director, producer as well as curator, and is recognised for a portfolio of more than 60 original theatre works, which have been invited to cities around the globe and major cities China. Mathias’s theatre works explore subjects as wide-range as literature, history, architecture, religion, current political affairs. In 2009, Woo initiated and curated “Architecture is Art Festival”, the first of its kind themed on architecture in Hong Kong. In 2012, Mathias with Looking for Mies was awarded by the Hong Kong Design Centre DFA Merit Award. In 2013, Woo was awarded the Arts and Cultural Figure of the Year in Shenzhen and Hong Kong Lifestyle Award by Southern Metropolitan Daily. In 2006, Woo was appointed by the government of the HKSAR as a member of Public Service Broadcasting Review Committee, and also a member of the Advisory Groups (Performing Arts and Tourism) of the Consultative Committee on the Core Arts and Cultural Facilities of the West Kowloon Cultural District; in 2009, Woo was appointed member of the Task Force on Economic Challenges by the Chief Executive. He is currently member of Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Co-operation Committee.

Yu Yat-yiu@PMPS Ever since he graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992, Yu Yat-yiu has been active in performing arts, working with The Nonsensemakers as director, Edward Lam Dance Theatre as dramaturge and Zuni Icosahedron as composer and sound designer. Yu also composes music for many Hong Kong pop singers, such as Anthony Wong and Miriam Yeung. Apart from that, he also participates in film scorings, and has recently become a columnist of Next Magazine, Milk X Magazine. His recent publications include The Art of Eating and Hong Kong Talks Music.

Lai is one of Hong Kong’s most important independent comic artists. His love for comics can be traced back to childhood when Lai drew enthusiastically and made photocopies to share with fellow schoolmates. During secondary school, Lai was fascinated by the audio visual arts of music videos at the time, and meanwhile attempted to create comics by adapting movies and other comic stories. He became acquainted to theatre afterwards and has worked as actor and choreographer in numerous theatrical plays. The experience with theatre has left profound impact on his way of thinking and drawing. Lai claims a rich portfolio of conceptual and experimental comic publications, well received in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and lately in France, which includes Picking up A Pig Tale, Woody Woody Wood, Laughing Laughing Chick Chick, A Parading Zoo in Taiwan, Three Senses of Youth, The Magic Flute, Far From Frustration, Poisoning the Chicken Soup, Stand behind the Island Line, Diarrhoea of the Frog, East Wing West Wing and a work in French il y a 2600 ans. He was twice invited to the renowned Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in 2008 and 2011. With a history of close participation in Zuni Icosahedron’s production and performance since 1990s, Lai made himself an artist-in-residence with the theatre company in 2010 and co-directed the highly acclaimed Children’s Cartoon Music Theatre – the Magic Flute, the Magic Flute Playground, Bauhaus Manifesto with Zuni’s principal actor Cedric Chan.

Jim Chu@Lol Design Ltd Visual and Graphic Designer

Born in Hong Kong , Over 20 years experience in design . Experience in design . Expect to lay down the work and learn to create origin.

Leumas To Illustrator/ Designer/ Curator

To’s works have been exhibited in the "1st HK-SZ Design Biennale" and the "Angoulême International Comics Festival" in France. Since 2011, He has hosted five exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou for his illustration series Good Children. He initiated joint exhibitions 5 Patterns and 10 Patterns in 2012, NOOK in 2015, and publication of comics collection Ping Pong. His illustration works have been covered in City Magazine, Mingpao Weekly and Milk Magazine.

Wong Chi Yung Lighting Artist/ Lighting Designer

Wong holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre Lighting Design major) with First Class Honors from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2005 he was awarded Alexandre Yersin scholarship from the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau for postgraduate study in France. He also studied on exchange at the Theatre Academy of Finland. Trained as a professional lighting designer in performing arts, He was also a lighting consultant for Louis Vuitton and Chanel. In 2010, he was the first in-house project lighting consultant for HBA/ Hirsch Bender Associates (Hong Kong). His first exhibition as a designer and curator was Storytelling, une exposition invisible (Paris, 2005). In 2010, he showed his light installation A View of Light in Hong Kong. Wong

Vancouver Artists' Bio collaborates with different media and artists, bringing together different visions and wants to use his knowledge in lighting to provide people a better understanding of the art form.

1/ Paul Wong

Paul Wong is a media-maestro making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award winning artist and curator who is known for pioneering early visual and media art in Canada, founding several artist-run groups, leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970's. With a career spanning four decades he has been an instrumental proponent to contemporary art.

Born in Prince Rupert, BC, Canada. Paul has shown and produced projects in North America, Europe and Asia. His works are in many public collections including those of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Museum of Modern Art (NYC) Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa), Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver) and Audain Art Museum (Whistler). He is the recipient of major awards including The Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Art (2015) and the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts (2016)

Dio Lau Visual Artist / Graphic Designer

Art director and graphic designer Dio Lau have been working in the music and performing arts industries for 4 years after graduated in visual communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2009 he went to London to pursue his studies in visual arts. After finished his MA at Camberwell College of Arts, he stayed in the city and worked both as a designer and visual artist. Later he had his first solo exhibition Confession In Water at the Book Club in London. In 2012 his collaborative project with Anafelle Liu and Ken Ngan have been selected by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós as the music video of Fjögur píanó. In recent years he focus on visual identity and graphic design in the art and cultural sector of the industry.

Melody Yiu Urban Designer

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Melody has studied, lived and worked in Lived, worked in the US and Europe before returning in 2007 and now based in Shanghai. As an urban designer believing in the transformative power of design to our city and the environment, she has worked on projects in over 20 cities across China, from new town planning, eco-tourism, to TOD mixed-use and public space intervention.

2/ Chris reed

Chris Reed is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a focus on photography. He uses light, colour, costumes and fashion to create emotional and stylistic photographs. Taking portraits and using them as a personal time stamp, representing concepts and aesthetics that are either current, or reminiscent, he is strongly influenced by the experiences, struggles, and social trends that surround him.

Chris is also a painter and performer, he has been a member of the Sin Peaks Live Improvised Soap Opera Company for three years, performing weekly in Downtown Vancouver. His current artistic residence is at Sandbox Studios at Creative Coworkers.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta 1992. He has now resided in Vancouver for 5 years.

Lo Sing-chin Costume Designer

Born in 1981, Lo has developed an interest in works with complicated details since young age. After spending an academic year as an engineering major in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he transferred to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and focused in fashion design. Lo has won a number of industry awards including the Young Talent Award 2005 from the Hong Kong Fashion Designers Association and the Merit Award from Design for Asia Award 2010. He was also the finalist of the New Designer Fashion Grand Prix organized by Onward Kashiyama Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan and the Hong Kong Fashion Week New Fashion Collection Award in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2008, he was chosen to be the Hong Kong representative taking part in the Asia Pacific week INFASHION fashion show in Berlin. Last year, he was one of the exhibitors presenting his works at POPING UP organized by the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Lo launched his own label PLOTZ in 2007, producing comfortable garments fueled with sophisticated details and styles. His philosophy in design is to convey the understanding in flattering women’s bodies through tailoring fashion with detailed patchwork and contour silhouette.

3/ Heather Baker

Heather Baker was born and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971 specializing in painting, lithography and photography. She has lived on the west coast for the last 40 years and making assemblages from found articles, in time taken away from running her antique business. The materials used for making these assemblages come from antique goods and historical and visual references.

4/ Drew Shaffer

Anais Mak Fashion Designer/ Artistic Director of Jourden

Stephanie Loo

Drew Shaffer was born in Victoria, B.C., and moved to Vancouver in 1990 to attend Emily Carr Institute from which he graduated in 1994. Since then he has continued to make and show work in Vancouver as well as other cities across Canada and the U.S. Shaffer's work employs details taken from familiar objects and augments them to examine the notion of material desire and the effect it has on us and our perception of ourselves and one another.

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The Post-90s. Stephanie graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Visual communication in 2015. Her illustration has appeared in Milk X magazine, Vivienne Tam X TTXS Tee Design Project. She also exhibited in “Memories of King Kowloon”, “TOYS PARADISE – Creativity & Toy Culture of Hong Kong” and “Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta 2014”. She is currently a Programme and Art Administration Trainee in Zuni Icosahedron.

5/ Janice Toulouse

Janice Toulouse is an Anishinabe kwe artist and instructor, born and raised in Serpent River First Nation, Ontario. She lives in Vancouver and France. She has maintained a dedicated painting practice, exhibiting her work internationally for over thirty five years. She holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. Toulouse is a recipient of several awards such as the

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian award and residency in New York. Currently she is teaching Visual Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she has taught as sessional faculty since 1997.

communicational and commercial works, as an Artist, Lee showed his works of art in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, France, and Canada.

6/ Josh Hon

10/ Annie Briard

Annie Briard’s practice challenges visual perception through video, photography and installation. Her inspiration is drawn from strange encounters with the visible and a desire to survey these with others.

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions across Canada and group shows, events and festivals internationally, including at Back Gallery Project, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, VIVO (Vancouver), Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Montreal), Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre New York, Matadero Madrid, and the Switzerland Architecture Museum (Basel), among others. Regularly, Annie produces while in residency, which has spanned the Maritimes, Spain, New York, the Banff Centre, and her projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Art Council. She holds a BFA from Concordia University, and a Master's from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she currently teaches.

Josh Hon was one of the most known artists in the 1980s in Hong Kong but faded out from the Hong Kong art scene in the early 1990s when he immigrated to Hope, British Columbia. However, with his cross-disciplinary practice from theatre performance to multi-media installation, he still remains as one of the most well-remembered artists of his time in Hong Kong art history. Hon’s brief career in the 1980s is a good example of the first generation of Hong Kong artists who have made use of a rather global art language without a burden of the Chinese tradition. With an introduction by Leung Chi Wo and an interview by Melissa Karmen Lee, this recollection of his artistic practice and his life in Hong Kong establishes the notion of memory in the study of Hong Kong art prior to any historical writing.

7/ Hank Bull

Hank Bull has been active on the Vancouver art scene since 1973. Associated with the Western Front, an artist-run centre, he is also co-founder of Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, where he was executive director until 2010. His practice includes visual and media arts, as well as telecommunications and collaborative social projects.

11/ Link Leisure/David Malachi Robinson

Link Leisure's works are disturbingly attractive, aesthetic, delicate, subtle, and tremendously sexual. It is a little degrading, definitely exciting, and elegantly perverse. Born and raised in Canada, he began his love affair with form and space by rejecting an artistic education. Instead, fleeing to London UK to learn his trade by working hands-on, immersing himself in the stimulating and challenging underground art / fashion / club scene. Often crossing over from gallery to pop music videos and performance stage design. Returning to Vancouver where he began, Link Leisure has joined force with Vancouver Artist David Malachi Robinson. Through their collaborative works they continue to push the boundaries, exploring new territory together.

David is a multidisciplinary visual artist who's work focuses on recontextualizing organic forms taken from nature. His work questions issues surrounding our relationship to time, human mortality, and our own divinity through the natural world. David graduated from Emily Carr university of Art and Design in 2010 with a focus in sculptural ceramics and continues to explore castables. His work has been seen both nationally and internationally, David holds his current studio practice in Vancouver, Canada.

8/ Lyse Lemieux

Lyse Lemieux is a Vancouver-based artist whose almost forty years’ art practice has focused primarily on drawing and installation.

Lemieux is the 2017 recipient of the prestigious VIVA AWARD granted annually by the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation and adjudicated by an independent jury to a mid-career artist living in British-Columbia for outstanding achievement and commitment to the visual arts.

Through considerations of process and materiality her practice explores the space between abstraction and representation, while consistently maintaining an interest in the human figure.

Lyse Lemieux graduated from the University of British-Columbia and has exhibited nationally and internationally including; Canadian Cultural Centre; Rome, the Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, Oakville Galleries; Toronto, Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia; Charles H Scott Gallery; Vancouver, TrépanierBaer Gallery; Calgary, Kaztman Contemporary, Toronto; SFU Gallery; Burnaby, Oakville Galleries; Oakville, Ontario.

9/ michaelmichaelmichael

Michael Lee A.K.A. michaelmichaelmichael is a cross-media artist and designer, graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, British Columbia, Canada. Lee is the co-founder of "PRESS MINI", as well as "Mini and Michael GALLERISTS", a cross-media project, incorporated since 2008 and airing since 2011. Lee, at Mini and Michael GALLERISTS, co-curated more than 69 art exhibitions from Asia to North America. In Hong Kong, as a Creative Director, Lee worked in leading media and communication companies include Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (Commercial Radio), Television Broadcasting Limited (TVB), and PCCW Limited. Beside the

North American Artists' Bio 1/ LOVEBOT: Matthew Del Degan

Lovebot lovingly disrupts the robotic routines of humans and reminds them that there is love in their cities and kindness around every corner. The aim is to reiterate the fact that we have the privilege of being alive, and that we are not restricted to algorithms and programming. Even though many of us work like robots in tech-driven, concrete jungles, we all have the capacity to share love and kindness with one another each day.

Following years of dedication from Lovebot creator Matthew Del Degan along side his strong team of volunteers and the evergrowing Lovebot community, Lovebot’s movement continues to gain outstanding momentum. Lovebot stickers and posters are now displayed in locations around the world, made possible by Lovebot’s devoted and active leaders wishing to spread kindness.

as an interior designer. In 2012, she began experimenting with custom furnishings and covered jewelry armoires in exotic skins. Soon, these pieces became her signature and The Box collection debuted at L.A.’s Maxfield boutique, and was featured in international publications. The first in the luxury market to introduce an exotic twist to sporting goods, Weinstock progressed to using exotic materials to sheath jewelry boxes, travel accessories, and ultimately to construct her now soughtafter handbags.

In addition, due to the recent success of the D.I.Y Lovebot crowd-funding campaign, the first ever Lovebot toy is soon to be released as a platform that Lovebot fans can customize and share with the intention to foster creativity and kindness in all of us.

While her pieces are available worldwide, Weinstock is firmly rooted in the Los Angeles design community. She opened her flagship store along West Hollywood’s West Third Street in a meticulously preserved 1930s building. The space is divided into three sections for each of her categories: the Living Room holds luxury furnishings, the Boudoir showcases her specialty jewelry boxes and handbags, and the Man Cave has gentlemen’s accessories.

The Elisabeth Weinstock collection can be found at specialty retailers internationally, including Bergdorf Goodman, Maxfield and Montaigne Market, and at elisabethweinstock.com.

By placing something meaningful and unique in people’s paths, Lovebot creates an impactful and uplifting experience. With constant social initiatives and methods for others to join the Love Invasion movement, Lovebot continues to inspire others to love more and get involved in making this world a better place.

4/ Justin Pape

2/ MUERTITOS DE HAMBRE (MDH)

Anonymous food Blog Mexicanfoodporn started in San Francisco, California, 2012 as a way to document how I ate and drank around the Bay Area and Los Angeles, but also as reminder of what I missed most about Mexican culture while studying Art abroad. Once I came back to Mexico, Muertitos de Hambre came to be as a complimentary art project to the food blog. The Muertitos or skeletons, are usually depicted interacting around food, drinks or anything related to food culture. If I am painting murals in the streets, I try to incorporate regional or local food to wherever I happen to paint. That way, the viewer can identify with something as personal and joyful as food, but also reflect on the destination we all share. No matter your background or country of origin; your political beliefs or sexual orientation, I believe food and the concept of death are topics anyone has a story or opinon on; food then becomes an universal language. Perhaps we can’t communicate due to language barriers but we sure can sit at a table, enjoy food and drinks.It is part of the human experience.

5/ Jeff Blackburn

Besides writing about and photographing food, painting murals around Mexico City and doing illustrations, I contribute writing articles for Vice Mexico in the Munchies section. Work has been featured in food magazines and exhibited in Mexico. Pieces are in private collections in U.S, Canada, Spain and Mexico.

Elisabeth Weinstock founded her eponymous, exotic skin accessories brand in 2011. The collection includes handbags, home furnishings and bespoke pieces for her, him and the home. Weinstock’s exclusive range of snakeskins and leathers are sourced the world-over. Each of her pieces are handmade, and Weinstock collaborates extensively with artisans whose knowledge of the craft has been passed down through the generations. Weinstock’s creative influence is drawn from her upbringing in Los Angeles and an obsession with travel. She honed her finely tuned Southern California-meets-classic European aesthetic

Blackburn is an illustrator and painter based in Toronto, Canada. His artwork has a graphic quality with a strong emphasis on line and texture. The work is often character centric, with his subjects seemingly lifted from narratives that have yet to be written. His everyday observations inform these figures, allowing him to acknowledge the core of a subject and twist or distort it any way he desires. He has worked with clients such as Pabst, Live Nation, and Microsoft.

6/ Chris Dyer

3/ Elisabeth Weinstock

Justin is an artist born and raised in Toronto, Canada. His work reflects his personal struggle with modern worlds disregard for the environment and creatures of the earth. He has been featured in the art books “A Face A Name” and “Toys: Limited Edition” and has also been nominated for a Designer Toy award. His art has been in gallery shows across North America, with solo exhibitions in Toronto, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Dyer is a Peruvian artist living in Montreal, Canada who is better known for his Visionary art on broken Skateboards. Chris is responsible for a big part of the art done for Creation Skateboards and Satori Movement Wheels from San Francisco, California, yet his happy images can be found on skateboards all over the world. He hopes to pass on a positive message to the youth with this. Chris has traveled all over the world in search for his own answers and shows his art when possible. He’s had gallery exhibitions in places like Mexico, Belgium, Peru, France and all over the States and Canada.

7/ Talwst

Curtis “Talwst” Santiago is a Trinidadian-Canadian artist, engaged in mixedmedia and performance practices. “Through my work, I explore the narrative of art history, whilst inserting elements of different cultures in order to engage a larger audience and in hopes of broadening the art historical canon as a whole. For the last two years I have been devoted to my project, Infinity, a series of miniature dioramas housed in reclaimed ring boxes. The work’s small scale allows me the opportunity for a very particular kind of meditation. The

overarching theme is related to time and space; to my sense of the vastness and the fragility of the world which I inhabit; and my fleeting memories of this world. Both are modeled after personal experiences. Ultimately, I wish to capture the moments that are, essentially, ineffable, and all the more moving because of their fugitive nature. A moment or a memory – sentimental and comical – is captured, very tenderly. The broadness of my ideas about the world, temporality, memory, is intimated in the stark obverse, by the extreme miniature boxes and dioramas. Conversely, the instability of memory, of the Earth itself, in peril, is, I believe, reflected in my medium and method. To contain such moments, with joy and with longing, is my singular objective.”

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8/ Jon Todd

Jon Todd is a Toronto based mixed media artist. Todd combines many mediums in his art including painting on found objects, collaging various papers, wood block cuts and screen-printing. His artistic process involves layering various mediums coupled with distressing techniques, and it is this pairing that gives his art a unique style. Todd’s recent works are of contemporary portraitures whose bodies are adorned with intricate symbolic images. These images provide the viewer the means to decipher the character’s life story. The result is a contrasting blend of rawness and refined beauty.

Shook, a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania based artist, focuses on being diversified in his work, in subject and media. As an Artist, he feels that the knowledge obtained from entirely different media of practice can be applied to many different facets of art. For 2-D Illustration pieces he randomly uses Graphite, Acrylics, Water Color, Charcoal, Airbrushing, Pen & Ink, Colored Pencil, Block printing, Screen printing, or Digital. For 3-D Sculpture Pieces, He has used Water and Oil Based Clay, Epoxies, Casting Latex, Portland Cement, Hydro-cal, Ultra-cal 30, Fiberglass, Resins, Plaster, Stone, Wood, Cushion & Insulation Foam. Shook regularly does live art at CoSM, (Chapel of Sacred Mirrors) in Wappinger Falls NY, ranging from painting with acrylics, airbrushing, body painting & sculpting. He and his cousin, Richard Hower, have a permanent installation piece on their Wisdom Trail called Di-Vine Man, which is an 11 ft tall sculpture made from wood and various sized vines, & Star Gazer, a 300 lb stone with a carved smiling face looking upward towards the sky . This installation is viewed by people from all over the world. Along with Diverse Medium, Shook and his wife Alysa own and operate The Graphic Cellar Artistic Services having experience in Graphic Design, Muraling Services, & Industrial Design. They have been commissioned to do interesting projects such as Making Custom Masks and Costumes, Creating Logos and Branding for local business, to several high end custom airbrushing projects for celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Carrie Underwood, and Bon Jovi.

9/ CJ Hungerman

13/ Andrew “Rcade” Kidder

Born in 1981, Lo has developed an interest in works with After acquiring a handful of degrees in music, graphic design, and painting during a decade of nomadic time, CJ finally was able to anchor down in the great city of Chicago. Here he has exhibited in a plethora of galleries throughout the years, selling art, securing grants and awards, as well as public art commissions. CJs’ pieces can be seen at fabulous Fulton Market Kitchen hanging with artists Dominic Sansone, Erik Debat, Erni Vales, and Hebru Brantley. His current public art commission is in the new Chinatown branch library, Chicago. CJ will be creating a 60 foot custom original piece of art for the space.

14/ Jessica Volpe

10/ Soy AKA James

There has always been a strong internal drive or compulsion to create images. My art practice is borne from a steady diet of cartoons, comics, music and other lowbrow sentiments. Frail and melancholy figures/forms as contemporary iconography distilled through a pop-cultural lens. Ink, aerosol, and acrylic paint are used to create abstract, ephemeral spaces where figures float ungrounded. Other worlds, dimensions, and places where form, line, colour, pattern and melancholy collide. Robots are used primarily as a symbol of mankind’s’ folly and fears, manifested in mechanical form. Technology represented as haphazard nostalgic relics, romanticized outdated visions of a bygone era.

Janice Colbert is a Toronto painter. Fashion design was her first career subsequent to studying Visual and Creative Arts at St. Lawrence College. After several years with her own label her interest evolved into fine art. An alumna from the Ontario College of Art & Design University, she was awarded the Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Emerging Grant, and she was a semi-finalist in the Royal Bank of Canada Canadian Painting Competition. She exhibits in Boston, Miami, New York and Toronto. Her paintings are held in private and corporate collections in the United States and Canada.

I’ve had an overactive imagination all my life. My surreal, hallucinatory dreams and the stories in my head have made their way onto my canvases. My private life and studio practice are inherently intertwined. The candy-coated female figures in my work are given free reign to convey their sexuality as they redefine society’s accepted norms. I work in a wide range of media and each painting is meticulously planned to combine slapstick with intelligence. I often use color and nature to obscure the realities within my paintings.

15/ Peru143

Professionally trained in both traditional and digital art, and inspired by his 15 years of experience as a graffiti writer, Peru found his true calling as a muralist and graphic artist. He has travelled and exhibited his work throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Although his primary focus has always been painting, Peru is perpetually interested in improving his craft and continues to explore his imagination through different mediums. Since moving to Toronto 3 years ago, he has been developing his woodworking and installation skills as a Display Artist, and has also started tattooing in his spare time.

Inspired by my travels, my recent work explores the theme of home, what it means to me personally, and our grander existential need as humans to find a place to belong. Having grown up travelling throughout Peru’s exotic extremes, I was permitted to let my imagination run wild. Since then, I’ve tried to see as much of the world as I can and have allowed my travels and conversations with people from around the world to enrich my study of identity and belonging. My study has included an examination into

11/ Janice Colbert

Rcade is an artist from Toronto that has been working mainly as a sign painter doing various shops and storefronts. He has a history of illustration and graffiti but has always been interested in hand lettering from a young age and finally started to practice with oil enamel, sign and pin striping brushes around 2008. Rcade is recognized as an artist and sign painter and you can see his clean yet fanciful homage to old school lettering all over Toronto.

the ways in which geography, culture, environment and tradition inform identity, an understanding I hope to further enrich throughout my life.

to the late great Michael Jackson and J-Dilla. The work of Elicser is highly visible in major cities across Canada, Central and South America to South Africa. Elicser is one of Toronto’s favourite graffiti writers and has been voted by NOW magazine as the “Best Local Graffiti Artist” for 2014, 2013, 2012 + 2011. He is recognized as Canada’s leading aerosol artist by Who’s Who in Black Canada. He has exhibited in both the ROM and AGO and participated in mural festivals in Rochester, NY (Wall Therapy) and Windsor, ON (Free 4 All Walls).

16/ Emily May Rose

Emily May Rose is an illustrator and graduate of OCAD University. Mainly working in mixed media, her style maintains a graphic yet organic feel. Her illustrations often include hand-lettering and a recurring cast of characters, and appears in many formats such as murals, comics, hand-painted signs, apparel designs, editorial pieces, and gallery settings. She is a resident artist in 36 Chambers Collective and she lives and works in Toronto.

23/ Kyle & Angeline

Painting is our J.O.B. Our Joy of Being. And our joyous beings strive to create joy in believing that all we create, is for the Joy that we be in. We paint together, we live together, and we love one another. Our creations together are an expression of our love. Like the practice of yoga (union), we reach inwards so we may share outwards; we practice our art together and apart in various forms, through movement, music, writing, traveling, and doodling. Often, we pass a pen and paper back and forth to extend upon each others lines, letting go of expectations and seeing were the pen guides us. We strive to inspire others to create, think and feel freely. We believe that, when creating art, it is not about what you make, but the experience of expression that is most important. We enjoy salvaging three-dimensional objects, often left behind by others, and giving them a new life – filled with color and splendor. A “thing” to someone else may be seen as broken and useless; but to us all “things” are an opportunity to create something beautiful.

We are encouraged each day by the joy, which we infuse into our art, for others to experience. We look towards using our abilities to bring greater light and opportunity for people on all levels of society, all around the world, and to discover themselves as creative and happy beings.

17/ Doug Brown

Brown is a Toronto-based visual artist. Very much multidisciplinary with regards to his artworks, Brown is known for his bold, oftentimes oversized stencils, paintings, sculptures and mixed media pieces. Having already exhibited in numerous Canadian cities, Brown is continually taking his artworks to the masses- intriguing exhibition attendees with the visual onslaught of his artworks’ patterns, characters and tactility.

18/ Sebastian Eismann

Eismann is a young, Bavarian artist who creates stencil artworks focusing on the essential creation by handcutting several layers of stencil. He makes use of a large variety of different styles to patiently work out artworks reaching from abstract to photorealistic, always pushing the boundaries of detail and precision. With his influences coming from everyday life, nature and photography he combines the art of stencilling with various visual techniques like double exposure to create ambiguous massages or simply pure aesthetics. With his inaugural show in January 2015 Eismann already started exhibiting all over Europe including shows in Berlin and London.

24/ Allister Lee

19/ Wysper

Wysper is a graffiti artist who has been painting since 1994. In 1998 he joined DOH and more recently BA. As a youth, he was intrigued by why and how graffiti got onto the walls of Toronto, with work by legendary REN being his biggest influence. Drawn by the underground and mysterious nature of graffiti, Wysper is known for his wildstyle lettering. His bold colourful style is oftentimes incorporated with characters taken as social commentary pieces. He also works in black and white sketches.

20/ Art Child

25/ Gary Wintle 26/ Nelson Dedos Garcia

Born and raised in East Vancouver to Uruguayan parents where at a young age expressed extreme interest in illustration and performing art.

Eventually immersed himself in the Hip Hop scene during his adolescence and ended up becoming one of the pioneering elements of the culture in Canada. Upon winning himself a couple of Juno awards for outstanding album artwork, he has gained global recognition for being a versatile yet original illustrator within various genres. He works predominantly in the animation field as a designer, but finds the time to focus on a variety of installations and print works. What he produces are pieces that have delved in much thought and depth in regards to his subject matter.

21/ Bryan Espiritu 22/ Elicser Elliott

Elliott explores narrative structures, new surfaces, and new sensations, through the lens of more than a decade spent in the global street art community.

Elicser Elliott leads the charge in the character-based movement in Toronto. Known for his intuitive ability to capture the essence of a subject, his work intimately frames subjects from children on the street to homages

Lee is an artist who specializes in consultation, branding and the creation of graphic collateral for premier apparel brands and retail operations. He develops custom work that communicates a message to a spectrum of cultures and lifestyles, using a wide variety of aesthetics and artistic mediums. Complementary to his commercial art practice, he makes artwork for exhibitions, collaborative projects, and for an assortment of self-branded printed matter and lifestyle products.

HONG KONG Artists Bio

Dedos has an interest for expressing his cultural roots through his work and also for invoking awareness to a higher conscious way of being wherever he finds it possible to incorporate. He continues to happily reside in Vancouver with his family of 3 children.

1/ AHN Hye Jin

27/ PAOLA DELFIN

Paola was born in Mexico City and remembers from the time she was a kid, she always had a pencil and paper to help her visualize her own world through drawing.

Her work is mainly influenced by the human anatomy, mostly the female figure, exploring the different stages and emotions a human being can live and feel.

She started painting murals after experimenting with canvases and illustration for several years, she discovered that this side of painting was really exciting, giving her the chance to share her thoughts and process with the people, and working with different media and scales.

This new stage also gave her the chance to love her other passion, traveling and getting to see the world doing what she loves, painting. She had visited several places and left her work there, the last couple of years she worked on different projects in places such as Germany, London, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Puerto Rico, Cuba, China and Mexico.

2, 3/ Alan CHAN

Arty & Chikle are a street art duo from Mexico City that loves illustration, street art, toys and cartoons. They have been working together since 2013, but before that they were both dedicated completely to street art, illustration and design and each of them had several collaborations with brands and galleries; after been invited to participate in a collective art show in Mexico City by the end of 2012, they met for the very first time and decided to begin a brand new project fusing their styles and concepts. They consider themselves as part of the Furry Fandom (a subculture of people that love animal characters with human traits) that’s why their art is full of toony zoo anthropomorphic characters. Their work is full of cute, chaotic and surreal situations where love, death, drugs and sex are their main themes. They have painted all over Mexico, Costa Rica and Brazil, and have had several gallery exhibitions in Mexico and Costa Rica; they have participated in a few Art Festivals and look forward to many more.

29/ BUCHSBAUM

Eclectic by nature, I get inspired by the imagination of popular culture, world criticism, mysticism, manners, colours my subconscious and the pursuit of my artistic development I began my artistic studies under the influence of Mexican Artist Juan Manual “Pato” Guillén in 2007, and I had participated in many different social labour projects in collaboration with the Antique Toy Museum Mexico, MUJAM, and in different artistic projects with brands as a freelancer. I enjoy the most to travel and the cultural exchange of human beings. I am a Mexican who considers himself citizen of the world, as an artist I draw inspiration from nature, low brow, americana, world folklore, custom culture, street art, surrealism and the occult.

Founder and Creative Director of Yenrabi Ltd CHENG is a graduate of the Royal college of Art in London and Parson’s School of Design in Paris. He has his own atelier, Yenrabi, and is based in Hong Kong. He has won so many awards and accolades and is considered 1 of the 25 most Influential Chinese in Global Fashion in 2010. His labels include couture, couture-a-porter, daywear and eveningwear. Luxurious and extravagance are the words we would use to describe Barney’s creation.

5/ Justin Pape

6/ CHOI Kim Hung @C+C Workshop

Born in 1978, studied visual communication and applied art, the recipient of many prizes and awards.

7/ Henry CHU@pill & pillow

Henry Chu is a designer, programmer, and new media artist. Born in Hong Kong in 1970s, Henry graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering programme at the University of Auckland, and founded pill & pillow in 2004. The independent studio has won more than 120 local and international awards including Cannes Lions, Webby and One Show. His iPad music apps Squiggle were exhibited in MoMA New York. Henry was also a speaker at Business of Design Week, TEDxKowloon and TEDxTaipei.

8/ Jim CHU

Born in Hong Kong. Over 20 years experience in design. Expect to lay down the work and learn to create from origin.

9/ Christine FANG

30/ Maya312

Being a designer, brand consultant and artist, CHAN and his company have won over 600 local and international awards during his 42 years in advertising and design. In recent years, CHAN has ventured into the new arena of fine arts besides graphic and spatial design.

4/ Barney CHENG

28/ ARTY & CHIKLE

The designs of AHN Hye Jin express blended culture that is from her long experience in Europe and Asia with her Korean Identity. AHN has been working in the fields of furniture design and various design workshops for all ages and social groups. She also focused on lighting design and exhibited the series ‘PIORA’ in several international exhibitions, such as Copenhagen International Furniture Fair and Stockholm Furniture Fair. AHN graduated with a Master's in Furniture Design from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland after receiving a Bachelor's in Woodworking and Furniture design in Hong Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea.

FANG holds a Bachelor of Social Science Honours degree in Social Work from the University of Hong Kong and a Master's

degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago, USA. FANG contributes towards the development and promotion of social welfare for years and in addition to her many years of involvement in social welfare. Ms FANG is now an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Social Work & Social Administration in the University of Hong Kong. She sits in the Board of Governance of the Hong Kong Red Cross, the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, the Society for Community Organization, the Keswick Foundation and the Marden Foundation.

14/ & Nine-Frame Comic KAN Tai Keung

10/ May FUNG

FUNG is an independent art worker for video art/ administration/education/curating/ commentary. She started creating single-channel video art since 1986, over more than 20 video works has been made so far. In 1994 FUNG was awarded with the Asian Cultural Council fellowship to study video art in the States. In 1999 the Hong Kong Arts Development Council awarded her the Art Development Fellowship for video installation art.

15/ Tara KO / Polly LAY@ Escafe studio

11/ Joey Ho@Joey HO Design Limited

HO draws his creative inspiration from the far-reaching corners of Asia. Born in Taiwan, raised in Singapore and gained his master's degree in Architecture from the University of Hong Kong, each of these culturally diverse yet artistically vibrant qualities have played their parts in fashioning HO's unique and avant-garde perspective of the world. Todate, HO's designs have won more than 90 internationally recognized awards. He is the Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Interior Design Association and the course consultant of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, actively involves in promoting the development of the design industry.

12/ Jinno NEKO

Jinno Neko, Paper Mache and bamboo framework artist, Illustrator, up-cycling kimono designer and owner of the second hand store Danshari Select shop. Jinno started her art life in 2007, before that she was a fashion designer, and till now she has collaborated with local and overseas artists and organisations such as, Jan Vornman of Dispatchwork Worldwide (Germany), ARTINVESTOR (Germany), Groovisions (Japan), HAJI Gallery, Tian Tian Xiang Shang (by Danny Yung & Zuni ), Sony Music Hong Kong, TOMBOW, HKTDC and KUBRICK.

Ken Hui is Creative Director and Co-founder of Hong Kong based creative agency, AIR. Prior to earning a master degree with distinction in Strategic Planning at UK, Ken holds a degree of Visual Communication and Product Design in HK. With over 15 years’ experience in creative industry, Ken established his career from advertising to digital innovation across renowned networks including O&M, JWT, DDB, BBH, Saatchi&Saatchi and TBWA in HK and London. He has worked on international brands such as Apple, Google, Levi’s, Adidas, Wyeth, HK Disneyland and so on, his works earned him numerous local and international creative and marketing awards. In 2015, he co-founded AIR as an integrated creative agency armed with creative services, digital production and media planning.

Escafe is a creative studio and space for enjoying designs and sharing creative ideas and life attitude rather than a working place. Two local creative art-based designer, Polly LAY and Tara KO founded Escafe in 2004 and now they work both in graphic design and their innovative jewelry line - Bittergrain. They prefer materials that are simple and interesting, work with creative ideas and art directions to create something wearable and stylish that also has an intrinsic and meaningful interpretation. LAY completed and obtained a Distinction from the Certificate Course on the Higher Certificate In Graphic Design (Tsing Yi). In 2005, he graduated from the BA (Hons) Art & Design in Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He had work experience in several 4As advertising agencies (141 Worldwide, Grey Advertising Hong Kong, AD Marketing Ltd.) as an Art Director. He is a member of Hong Kong Designers Association, and also work with Hong Kong Design Centre in several design projects. KO graduated from the BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She worked as an art director in Ogilvy & Mather Beijing for 2 years. In 2004 she set up the design studio – Escafe along with her partner LAY, they collaborated with other creative companies and designers in design and advertising projects. In the summer of 2007, they both joined the Master Class in Accessories at the Domus Academy in Milan, and later on in 2008 they launched their own jewelry brand - Bittergrain.

16, 17/ Kathy KUK / CHAN Ka Tat @Graphic Airlines

13/ Ken HUI

World-renowned designer and artist. Kan started his career as a designer from 1967 and has received numerous awards including Gold Awards, International Art Competition, Los Angeles, Gold Award in Mercury Award, New York, 1st Prize in the 1st International Computer Art Biennale in Rzeszów, Poland. He was awarded the HKDA Lifetime Honorary Award in 2016. Kan also actively involves in educating and promoting art and design profession. He is the Member of Alliance Graphique Internationale, Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Museum of Art, Board Member of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, the Professor and Founding Dean of Cheung Kong School of Arts and Design, Shantou University.

Our Aim is “No boundaries” & “Enjoy the voyage!” The characters created by art & creative duo Graphic Airlines Tat and Vi, celebrates the "Aesthetics of ugliness". The fat face with big chests is her icon character. Those fat and big chests characters represents the metropolitan's excessing materials life and distending desires.

18/ Joseph KUNG

KUNG is currently serving Shung Tak Catholic English College as its principal. KUNG is a staunch believer of servant leadership and this has always been the principle he followed as a teacher, middle manager and now as a Principal. He has been serving in Catholic schools for 30 years. He is awaiting to pass on the mission. His piece is entitled Passing the Torch.

19/ LAI Tat Tat Wing

LAI is one of Hong Kong’s most important independent comic artists. His love for comics can be traced back to childhood when LAI drew enthusiastically and made photocopies to share with fellow schoolmates. During secondary school, LAI

was fascinated by the audio visual arts of music videos at the time, and meanwhile attempted to create comics by adapting movies and other comic stories. He became acquainted to theatre afterwards and has worked as actor and choreographer in numerous theatrical plays. The experience with theatre has left profound impact on his way of thinking and drawing. LAI claims a rich portfolio of conceptual and experimental comic publications, well received in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and France. He was twice invited to the renowned Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in 2008 and 2011.

20/ Eman LAM

A member of the best Hong Kong female singer-songwriter duet “at17”. The group was awarded as the most popular group and the best group by broadcasting medias, including TV and Radio. Besides singing, Eman also worked on TV programs hosting, TV commercials voice-over and motion picture scores, quite a few of famous brands TV commercials, as well as the original music compositions in Hong Kong movie. In 2011, a starting time of Eman’s independent career leading by her unique voice, “Lam2 Production” was established, a revolutionary career of Lam’s has begun.

21/ & Nine-Frame Comic Freeman LAU

Freeman Lau graduated from the School of Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and being the founder of KL&K Creative Strategics, Lau has been doing a wide range of works including book, graphic, poster, brand strategy and product design. Being the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Design Centre and the Secretary General of the Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations, Lau has been devoting himself to the industry. Lau’s dedication in design industry is fully recognised, which therefore brings him a myriads of awards such as “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” (1997), “Gold Award” by Hong Kong Designer Association (2005, 2007) ,“Bronze Bauhinia Star” (2006), “Honorary Fellow” by Vocational Training Council(2007), “University Fellow” by Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2011), Red Dot Design Award, Germany(2011) and “The Best Asian Designer” Award of 2014 Asian Designers’ Invitational Exhibition in Korea (2014).

22/ Karen LEE

LEE, artist-jewellery designer, received formal training in Jewellery Design, Making and Identification in Japan and Florence, Italy. LEE has been designing jewellery under her own name since 2003. Using a variety of precious materials to design artistry jewellery, her works have won major international jewellery design competitions including Best of the Best Award 2004 from DTC, Champion award from Tahitian Pearl Design Competition 2005, 2006 Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award & 2007 “Top 40 under 40” designers in Greater China by Perspective and attracted the attention of many art collectors and jewellery lovers around the world. Recognized as a leading artist-jewellery designer, LEE sees each piece of jewellery as an expression of individual’s history, character and value reflecting the personality of its owner.

23/ Michael LEUNG

LEUNG was born in Hong Kong, China in 1981. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2001-

04 BA (Hons) in Design, Industrial) and Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands for Postgraduate studies (200810 IM Masters in Design). In 2008, he was awarded Young Design Talent Award in Hong Kong. He founded Studio MIRO in 2010, working in different levels and disciplines; from 2D to objects to space ... exploring different aspects from crafts to philosophy, from basic objects to design systems. His works have been exhibited in different places, including Dutch Design Week, Inside Design Amsterdam, Milan Salone Satellite, Shanghai World Expo. http://www.michaelandrony.com

24/ LI Chi Tak

Li entered the comics industry after he graduated from high school in 1982

In 1987, self-published Tong Men Shao Nian, a strikingly compelling comics which catapulted him to fame. Li is regarded as the most prominent Hong Kong artist in the Japanese comics scene. Even more impressively, his works were already introduced to the Western world in the 90s.

His French comic “The Beast” published in 2016 and also held an solo exhibition in Anguoleme International Comic Festival at same year.

He still work on comic, painting, drawing, with very own approach.

25/ Tommy LI

Tommy is the brand designer/consultant for the generation renowned for his “Black Humor” and “Audacious Visual” designs.

Graduated from the School of Design in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tommy has received over 580 awards. “New Weekly” collaborated with “Design 360” and “life style academy” selected Tommy as one of the top 20 China’s most powerful designer appealing to market (graphic design).

Tommy Li has brought remarkable success to his major clients included Hang Seng Bank, MTR Corporation, Maxim’s Caterers, Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Ltd, Dairy Farm Group (First Choice), Honeymoon Dessert, Ying Kee Tea House, HKPC, Shanghai Watch and etc.

26/ William LIM

LIM is one of the Hong Kong architects and visual artists. He is the founder and director of the award-winning design firm CL3, with studios now in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. LIM’s architectural installations are known for its contemporary interpretation on the aesthetics and techniques of traditional craft, most notably the Lantern Wonderland in 2003 & 2011, and the Bamboo Ladder installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006 & 2010. His signature piece, “West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre”, was awarded the Grand Award and Special Award for Culture in Design for Asia Award in 2013.

27/ Roy LIN

Founder of Blackpaper, lyricist and writer

In 2010, LIN founded Blackpaper, a local creative unit which takes part in different forms of creative projects. He is also a lyricist who has written for nearly 100 published songs. His first prose collection Idiot was published in 2012.

28/ Ellen LOO

Member of the Hong Kong top girl band at17, singer-songwriter Ellen Loo started her career as a solo singer in 2010, and released her solo debut album The Ripples in Greater China region. The album was a great hit, and has won quite a few music awards. Ellen is also highly recognized for her talent as a guitar player of the new generation. After touring campuses and live houses all around Taiwan earlier this year, Ellen threw her Live on Ripples concert at Shouson Theatre of Hong Kong Arts Centre, where a full-house audience was totally overwhelmed by Ellen’s performance.

numerous names and emerging new talents, TAM has shown that she can consistently appeal to everyone from high-society to urban to teens, offering them fresh collections every season.

35/ TAM Mui Fong

36/ teelocker

29/ Man Lai Hong 30/ Karen POW

POW graduated from the School of Technical Arts at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2000, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Technical Arts (Scenic Art). Upon graduation, she has devoted herself full-time to mural and mosaic art work, she has been the project artist for various groups, organizations and schools, that including: DanceArt Hong Kong, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Hong Kong Federation Youth Groups, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Cancer Resource Centre----Queen Elizabeth, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Corporation, Ronald Mcdonald's House, Heep Hong Society and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, etc. She also did the commercial painting, sculpture and mosaic work for Herme’s, Chanel, Venetian Macau, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong Disney, 2008 Olympic Equestrian, Lane Crawford and Joyce, Sky100. Formed Mosaic Art Projects in 2007 to concentrate on community educational and commercial art projects.

PUI graduated with the BA (Hons) Fashion Design in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2000, and received his advanced studies in the Central St. Martins in London later on. His collections have won numerous awards such as Hong Kong Fashion Designer Association Award from the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designer Contest 2002; the winner of the Asian Young Fashion Designer Contest 2002 which was held in Singapore; and the Bright Future Young Design Talent Award from the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2005. He launched hoiming — a handmade leather bags and accessories line in 2007, and set up FUNGUS WORKSHOP in 2009 to share the passion in and attitude in leatherwork.

TSANG pursued his interest in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education from Boston State College and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

As a member of the Administrative Service, he served in a number of posts, including Administrative Assistant to the Financial Secretary, Assistant Director-General of Trade and Private Secretary to the Governor. He served following reunification in a number of different capacities, including Director General of the London Economic and Trade Office, Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Secretary for Planning and Lands and Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (Planning and Lands).

He was appointed Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology in 2003. He chaired the successfully concluded World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong in 2005. He was appointed Director of the Chief Executive's Office in 2006 and has been serving as Financial Secretary since 2007.

38/ Jessey TSANG

32, 33/ Aries SIN@MODEMENT

SIN, a graduate of Fashion Design and Product Development of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, embraced by an invincible force of blissfulness while making clothes. Being the founder and design manager of Mode Creations Ltd., SIN manufactures only 100% made in Hong Kong fashion; the concept behind the collection of her own brand MODEMENT lies in the trinity qualities of unisex, simple and neat, she had created a collection that shows culture of Hong Kong from four aspects Clothes, Food, Home and Travel. SIN will continue the life-long journey of fashion design with passion and courage, to touch people with fashion.

34/ & Nine-Frame Comic Vivienne TAM

TAM has become well known for creating beautiful clothes that appeal to all ages, ethnicities, and income levels. A longstanding dedication to innovation and exotic imagery, TAM is truly one of the world’s most passionate and symbolic designers in fashion today. In an era where the fashion industry is populated by

teelocker is a design platform created for artists, designers and everybody. It aims at bringing arts into our daily life.

37/ John TSANG

31/ Baldwin PUI@hoiming

TAM is an Visual Arts teacher in a secondary school. She believes Life is art; Art is life.

Tsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on the humanitarian grounds. In 2008 her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake was succeed internationally, it had won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. TSANG finished her French/ Hong Kong coproduction feature documentary Flowing Stories in 2014, and her latest Drama Scent also released in Mid of August 2014. In recent years, Tsang has actively participated in projects relating to environmental issues and disadvantaged communities, receiving the FilmAid Asia Humanitarian Award in 2016.

39/ Justin WONG

Justin WONG, comic writer and media artist, started his comic column in Ming Pao Daily in 2006. His published works include Lonely Planet and Hello World. He is currently teaching in Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.

40, 41/ & Nine-Frame Comic anothermountainman (Stanley Wong)

He is a visual communicator. He came to international attention with his “red white blue” series, which he presented at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 representing Hong Kong.

Many of his art works have been exhibited local and overseas galleries and museums for more than 100 shows included solo show in Tokyo ggg (ginza graphic gallery) last year, and are now part of their permanent collection, including Hong Kong M+ and london V&A Museum. In May 2012, Wong was also awarded the Artist of the Year 2011 (Visual Arts) from Hong Kong Arts Development Awards and the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 from Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Since winning a First Prize Award for the L’Opéra de la Bastille international competition in 1983, his works have consistently been awarded both in Hong Kong and overseas. Recent accolades include ARCASIA Gold Medals in 1994 & 2003, Chicago Athenaeum Architectural Awards in 2006, 2011 and 2013, and German Design Council Iconic Awards in 2014 & 2016, etc.

Rocco’s work was published in The City in Architecture in 2003, Being Chinese in Architecture in 2004 and Presence 2012. A new monograph Reconnecting Cultures was released in mid2013.

42/ Anthony WONG

WONG is a Hong Kong famous singer, former Tat Ming Pair lead singer, Zuni Icosahedron member, peoplemountainpeoplesea board of director.

43/ WONG Wan Mei@Goldfish Creative

WONG, a Hong Kong Designer, the founder of Goldfish Creative. She is a lecturer at Hong Kong Design Institute. She graduated from Central St. Martins, UK in 2002. Her several works have won international awards. She is passionate in her creative greeting cards which are sold in Australia, Singapore, Korea, Canada, Germany, Philippines and Hong Kong. She loves what she does and shares her creativity with others.

44/ Toby YEUNG

49/ YIP Wing Sie

Toby YEUNG is a Hong Kong-based multi-media designer who is just exceptionally obsessed with characters design. He showed his passion for creativity through graphic design, characters and figure design under tobyhk. From time to time, Toby was invited to different creative projects all over the world that included character@war (Germany), customize me (Spain), katalogue (UK), hungry for style-lOreal Paris (France), stopwars urban act (Spain), energias renovadas exhibition (Spain), x-care design (Taiwan) to name a few.

50/ Pius YIU

YEUNG obtained his MA in Fashion Design from the University of Westminster in 2009. He won a top creative award in Hong Kong Young Designer’s Contest held by The Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 2003. Participated in Hong Kong Fashion week fashion shows from 2003 to 2008, YEUNG was an assistant costume designer for Nijinsky and Iron and Silk in 2006 and the costume designer for Happily N’ever After in 2009 by CCDC. He was invited to the London Cheers Exhibition 2009. Besides, he was subsequently hired by a China sportswear company, Li Ning, as senior fashion designer in 2007-2008 responsible for designing the main sportswear line, and sportswear uniform for the China team in Beijing Olympics.

46, 47/ Lio YEUNG

Lio YEUNG is an art director and visual artist in Hong Kong. Believing commercials can be art, he further his studies in MA Graphic in Chelsea in London in 2010. He founded Art-Glossary magazine with Masa Inaba in 2011 to create a platform for artists and designers to discuss the definitions of art and to share ideas and experiences. Art-Glossary magazine was distributed in Tate Modern and Graphic Design Museum in London. In 2012, he published his first book If Red is Green and established a creative party known as Young and Innocent. www.illlio.com

48/ Rocco YIM

Rocco Yim was born and educated in Hong Kong, and is currently Executive Director of Rocco Design Architects.

YIU is a renowned hair stylist famous for creating the iconic hairstyles for high-profile celebrities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. YIU not only captures the essence of the artists’ charisma, his work has become a huge influence in pop culture and fashion trends. His cutting edge hair design is a signature of art and life style.

51/ Louis YU

Mr Yu joined the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) in June 2010. He is responsible for steering the planning and development of the performing arts facilities in the District, and for overseeing the strategies and operating models for these facilities.

Since joining WKCDA, Mr Yu has played a pivotal role in leading the design and construction of the performing arts facilities. He has also overseen a series of pre-opening programmes for dance, drama and theatre arts, music and xiqu.

With over 28 years of experience in arts administration and management, he was formerly the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He had worked with the Hong Kong Arts Centre for 13 years and served as the Executive Director from 2000 to 2007.

45/ YEUNG Chin

A highly respected and influential figure in Asia’s orchestral music scene, YIP has been the Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2002. She was the winner of the First Prize as well as LYRE d’OR in the 35th Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d’Orchestre de Besançon, France in 1985 and a prize winner in the 8th Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 1988. Accolades YIP has received include “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite” bestowed by the French Government and Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM).

Nine-Frame Comic Craig Au Yeung Graduated in Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with BA honour in graphic communication and Master of Philosophy degree with thesis title 'The Hong Kong Ideas of Home'. Au Yeung is involved in radio and TV programme production on cultural issues, working actively in graphic design, art direction, comic and illustration, Au Yeung also offers commentaries on travel, home living and food, his writings and comix works is currently appearing extensively in newspapers and magazines in greater China region. His publications include comix, home living series, series on food of HK, etc. Au Yeung held numerous solo and group comix exhibition in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, France and Swiss, dating from 1987 to present.

Choi Yan-chi CHOI has been actively in promoting contemporary arts in Hong Kong since the 80’s. In 1985, she had her solo installation show in Hong Kong Art Centre. In 1992, she was invited to take part in the first Asia Pacific Triennial in Queensland Art Gallery and in the same year she was given a solo show at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She was awarded Artist of the Year in 1998 by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2002, CHOI joined Baptist University and helped establish the first Academy of Visual Arts of Baptist University. CHOI is one of the founders of 1a Space, a progressive contemporary art space in Hong Kong. In 2008, CHOI was invited by University of Southern California as Distinguished Provost Visitor. In 2011, CHOI was granted an award by the Hong Kong Secretary of Home Affairs’ Commendation Scheme.

Alice Mak Alice MAK, the illustrator of McMug and McDull character. From 1990, she created the McMug and McDull series with cocreator Brian TSE and licensed a series of related products. With the great popularity of characters, she started devoting into animation films, movies known respectively as My Life as McDull, McDull, Prince de la Bun, Mcdull – Kungfu Ding Ding Dong, Mcdull, The Pork of Music and Mcdull·me & my mum. My Life as McDull, and Mcdull·me & my mum won 39th and 52nd Golden Horse Awards for Best Animation Film respectively.

Siu Hak / illustrator

Born as CHANG Tze-hin in Hong Kong in 1974. Graduated from the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a BA (Hons) in Design. He has been working locally as a freelancer in illustration, comics, animation, and scriptwriting since graduation. Published his first solo comic album Fake Forensic Science in 2006. From 2004 to 2008, working at Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design as a guest lecturer. He started lyrics writing for Cantonese pop songs in 2008.

Tsui Hark Hong Kong Film director, producer and screenwriter. Tsui has produced & also directed several influential Hong Kong films such as A Better Tomorrow; A Chinese Ghost Story; Once Upon a Time in China; and most recently, blockbusters such as Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate and Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema and has been regarded by critics as "one of the masters of Asian cinematography."

Douglas Young / interior & furniture designer Born in Hong Kong in 1965, Douglas Young trained as an Architect in the United Kingdom. In 1991, he returned to his home and began to transform many of Hong Kong’s residential and retail interiors into creative and stylish spaces with Young Associates. In 1996, Douglas co-founded Goods of Desire with Benjamin Lau, a fellow architect and home design aficionado. Starting with a small shop in Ap Lei Chau, G.O.D. has grown into an established, multi-faceted lifestyle brand selling home furnishings, fashion and premium gifts with a distinct Hong Kong flair. Douglas and G.O.D. have both won numerous awards including “MustGo Hong Kong Local Brand” by NEXT Brand Awards 2014, “Gold Award” &“HK Best Award” by Hong Kong Design Association Global Design Award in 2011.

Zuni Icosahedron www.zuni.org.hk Co-Artistic Director / Danny Yung Co-Artistic Director cum Executive Director / Mathias Woo ZUNI is a colour between blue and green. In Western New Mexico, Zuni is the name of a tribe of North American Indians who is famous for creative handicrafts. ICOSAHEDRON is a solid figure having twenty faces bearing a strong contagious character. Founded in 1982, Zuni is a Hong Kong based international experimental theatre company and a non-profit charitable cultural organization. Zuni is one of the nine major professional performing arts companies in Hong Kong, and has made venue partner with the Hong Kong Cultural Centre since 2009. As a premier experimental theatre company, Zuni has produced more than 200 original productions of alternative theatre and multimedia performances, and been invited to more than 60 cities around the globe for cultural exchange and performances. With the support of our members, and under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors, Danny Yung and Mathias Woo, Zuni has been active in video, sound experimentation and installation arts, as well as in the area of arts education, arts criticism, cultural policy research and international cultural exchange. Recently, Zuni has also been undertaking the mission of preserving and developing Intangible Cultural Heritage (Performing Arts).

The Team The Artist of Tian Tian Xiang Shang / Danny Yung Guest Curators for North American Exhibits / James Robertson, Alison Cromie Guest Curator for Vancouver Artist Exhibits / Paul Wong Curator and Exhibition Design / Danny Yung Producers / YueWai Wong, Cedric Chan Vancouver Producer / Grace Yung Cromie Production and Technical Manager / Chow Chun Yin, David Yeung Creative Workshop Tutors / Grace Yung Cromie, Suzie Cromie Project Assistants / Clement Lai, Luka Wong, Carson Chung Graphics Design / Jim Chu, Coco Cheung, Lai Tat Wing Special thanks Annie Wong, Richard Yiu, Rose Ma, Gabriel Yiu, Jenny Kwan Acknowledgments Participated Institutions in Vancouver BC False Creek Community Center Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre Learning Disabilities Association of Vancouver Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association Immigration Service Society of BC North Shore Neighbourhood House ParticipatedSchools in Hong Kong Tin Shui Wai Government Primary School Shung Tak Catholic English College Ng Yuk Secondary School Chinese Y.M.C.A. Primary School The Church Of Christ In China Kei To Secondary School Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School Yan Oi Tong Chan Wong Suk Fong Memorial Secondary School Shek Wu Hui Public School Shek Lei Catholic Primary School Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Branch Primary School Sha Tin Government Secondary School Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School Cumberland Presbyterian Church Yao Dao Secondary School Kam Tsin Village Ho Tung School Caritas St. Joseph Secondary School GCC&ITKD Lau Pak Lok Secondary School Participating Schools in Japan Takata Elementary School, Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture usic performance at the Opening Reception M Joshua Yang Alison Kim

Mount Pleasant Elementary School Port Moody Senior Secondary Surrey Schools - Harold Bishop Elementary School West Vancouver Secondary School Lord Byng Secondary School

T.W.G.Hs Li Ka Shing College Po Leung Kuk Wai Yin College HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee) HKFYG Lee Shau Kee College Pooi To Middle School Christian Alliance S Y Yeh Memorial Primary School Ma On Shan Methodist Primary School ELCHK Ma On Shan Lutheran Primary School Tseung Kwan O Methodist Primary School Wai Kiu College Taoist Ching Chung Primary School (Wu King Estate) St. Stephen's College Preparatory School SKH St. Clement’s Primary School St Paul's Co-educational College Sharon Lutheran School

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