HART x The Sovereign Art Foundation
Sharing Session and Workshop: Developing an Expressive-arts Programme
The Sovereign Art Foundation’s Make It Better (MIB) programme works with young children in some of Hong Kong’s socio-economically deprived communities, running workshops that offer empowering learning activities reinforced by expressive-arts. MIB also provides workshops and training to support caregivers, teachers and social workers of these children.
In this session Yana Ng, registered Art Therapist and Lead Course Planner for the MIB programme, will discuss some of the challenges that individuals and organisations can face when developing an expressive-arts programme. After providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of the MIB programme in Hong Kong, Ng will share her own expertise and explain, from an art therapy perspective, how to maximise the impact of expressive arts and art-making within programmes for both children and adults with different needs. Practical skills will be covered in an hour-long workshop to follow the initial presentation.
The event will be conducted in English.
Date: 29th February, 2020 (Saturday)
Time: 10am to 12pm
Venue: HART Haus
Capacity: 15 persons
*Participants are requested to bring with them a bag with 5 recycled or natural items for the art-making activity.*
Free admission
About the Speaker
Yana Ng
Lead Course Planner for SAF’s Make It Better Programme
Yana Ng (HCPC, BAAT, BACP, HKAAT) is Lead Course Planner for The Sovereign Art Foundation’s Make It Better (MIB) programme in Hong Kong. Yana is a registered Art Therapist whose professional interests lie in child and adolescent mental health. Yana completed her training in the UK where she then practiced as an Art Therapist, offering individual and group consultations to support children and young people coping with life-changing or traumatic events. She has since worked extensively with young people around the world, using creative arts to empower individuals with diverse needs.
About the Organisers
HART
Established in 2018, HART is a new arts initiative to explore art and space and artful community catalysts. Through the HART collective of art spaces, we aim to revitalise a culture of creativity with active participation and focus on the process of hands-on making. Over time HART will encompass an experimental and evolving platform of programmes and arts spaces in Hong Kong.
The Sovereign Art Foundation
The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) was established in 2003 with a well-defined twin focus: to recognise the growing wealth of contemporary art talent in Asia and bring the proven benefits of expressive arts to disadvantaged children. The beauty of this model is that we can achieve both goals in an eminently sustainable way. The Sovereign Asian Art Prize – now the largest and most established contemporary art prize in Asia-Pacific – raises funds by auctioning artworks that reach the final stage of the competition. Proceeds are then shared equally between the artists and the Foundation, to fund charitable projects across Asia.
To learn more about SAF: https://www.sovereignartfoundation.com/