Creative Day Camp 2023 創作日營2023
Creative Day Camp 2023 創作日營2023
This event is for participants ages 18 to 24. No prior knowledge of arts and visual studies is required.
Creative Day Camp invites young people to experiment with the infinite possibilities of creativity! Over four days, you will work closely with artist instructors to reflect on the essence of artistic creations, explore different ways of expressions through various mediums and gain insight into how the themes of the Camps are relevant to our daily lives. The process emphasises self-discovery, practice, and the sharing of experience with like-minded participants through conversation, play and exploration. In addition to workshops, you will also have the opportunity to visit the M+ galleries to draw inspiration from its collections, and go to places outside the museum with the instructors to transform moments of your daily life into creative works. Your creative process and works from the journey will be showcased to the public during Young People Summer Takeover of the Learning Hub from 10 to 11 August.
Photo: Xyza Cruz Bacani
In the era where smartphones have made it easy to take photos of people or things, how can photography create social impact beyond personal observation or emotional expression? Join Documentary Photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani on a journey from the museum to the neighbourhood, and share your observations of the community groups through photography.
Xyza is proficient in capturing faces of communities, bringing the personal stories to a wider audience, and raising social awareness for marginalized groups through her artistic practice. Throughout the programme, Xyza will guide you through a series of exercises on documentary photography, discovering people around us that were often overlooked. You will walk into neighbourhoods, engage in conversations to learn about people’s lives through attentive listening and observation. You will discover the unique stories of ordinary people and let their voices be heard through photography. You will learn step by step, from conceptualization to development, from photo-shooting to creating a collection, to explore ways of community intervention and reflecting our roles in society through documentary photography.
Language: English, supplemented with Cantonese
Enrolment: Please click here for enrolment
Deadline: 30 July
Results announcement: Successful applicants will be notified via email by 2 August.
Deposit payment: Successful applicants are required to pay a deposit of HKD 500 by 4 August. The deposit will be returned after the end of the programme if the participant attends all session.
Lo Lai Lai Natalie. The Messenger - Passerby in Our Battlefields, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Under the hustle and bustle of city life, we find ourselves boxed in tightly by sky-scrappers and densely packed buildings. But are we as far from nature as we think? Join artist Lo Lai Lai, Natalie to discover nature in urban life and express your unique observations through multi-disciplinary creations.
As a ‘half-farmer-half-X’, artist Lo Lai Lai incorporates inspirations from farming into her works to share her insights and fascination with nature. During the programme, Lai Lai will guide you to leave your preconceptions towards nature and try to feel, observe and even predict its changes.. Starting with activities as usual as preparing meals together, observing plants and tree, and venturing into the countryside to explore various ways and forms in which nature exists in the city. By collaborating with other participants, you will document your thoughts and feelings towards nature and transform them into multi-disciplinary works such as moving images and writing, reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature.
Language: Cantonese
Enrolment: Please click here for enrolement
Deadline: 30 July
Results announcement: Successful applicants will be notified via email by 2 August.
Deposit payment: Successful applicants are required to pay a deposit of HKD 500 by 4 August. The deposit will be returned after the end of the programme if the participant attends all session.
About the Artists
Xyza Cruz Bacani (b. 1987, the Philippines) is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York and Hong Kong. Her experience as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong informs her practice and engagement in less visible, erased, and underreported world events.
Portrait of Xyza Cruz Bacani in her studio at Long Island City, New York. 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Nicholas Papananias
Bacani has been recognised as one of Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders, Artpil’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, Forbes’s 30 Under 30 Asia, and BBC’s 100 Women of the World. Her artistic accomplishments are documented in a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honour, HR No. 1969. She has received multiple grants, including from the WMA Commission, the Open Society Moving Walls Foundation, and the Pulitzer Center, and was one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows. She is also the author of We Are Like Air.
Lo Lai Lai Natalie was born in Hong Kong. She received her BA in fine arts and MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A former travel journalist, Lo now alternates between writing, farming, and art. Her interests lie in food, farming, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. She has a farming practice and uses photography and moving images as a means to interact with nature. She received the Gold Award in the Media Art Category at the 26th ifva Awards in 2021.
Portrait of Lo Lai Lai Natalie. Photo: Tsz Long
Image at top: M+ Summer Camp 2018. M+, Hong Kong
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- Access to the M+ Lounge with your guests
- Access to M+ Private Viewing on Sunday mornings
- Priority ticket purchase and member discounts
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- Free General Admission access and selected cinema screenings
... and much more
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