Dear Hong Kong, is a picture book of 200 pages featuring inspiring people from different countries, all living in Hong Kong. Book will display their portrait and their story, the essence of who they are and what they do in the city.
The final goal of the project is to show the ultimate diversity of the city through personal stories that inspire, break existing stereotypes and widen horizons.
We want to make an inventory of how many nationalities live in Hong Kong, one of the most international cities in the world.
Giving voice to people from different backgrounds and highlighting the contribution of their cultures to the city.
This is an art project, where photographers will imprint their style in capturing the essence of the different individuals featured.
Inspire and widen the reader's horizons. Show different paths to happiness and help raise awareness of social issues.
Changing the idea the society has about ethnic minorities in the city and showing them their international neighbours.
We give voice to individuals who are not usually represented and share their unusual yet inspiring stories.
Soul behind Hong Kong cinema classics. In the mood for Hong Kong - If you can dream it, it will be real
Model and activist - Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, only where you start.
Member of the faculty of medicine at HKU - Don’t let small minds persuade you that your dreams are too big.
Teacher. Ex-prisoner - Sometimes you face difficulties not because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right
Please share with us the details of someone you know living in Hong Kong who comes from a country from the list, someone inspiring, with a story worth sharing, who has contributed to the city somehow.
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If you want to become part of the team all you need is your curiosity and interest in cultural diversity. Join our multicultural and passionate team!
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Here you will be able to pre-order a copy of the book, and we'll send it to you once the project is completed. Your name will be printed in the book as one of the contributors. Through this crowdfunding campaign you help to make the project come true. (Expected delivery November 2020)
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Dream Architect
After 8 years in Hong Kong Oskar wants to give back to the city doing a project to increase social awareness in diversity and inclusion. Having worked in related Ethnic minorities organisations, he deeply believes in the unity of all humans, regardless of race, occupation, religion or any other excuses people sometimes use to separate themselves from others.
Human stories explorer
Being a local HKer who has travelled to 37 countries, Aggie truly understands how powerful and impactful face-to-face communication can be. Her life mission is to collect and discover as many inspiring stories as possible. She's driven to slowly influence people around her to be more compassionate in order to achieve mutual understanding and respect among people across different backgrounds. She currently works in a social enterprise focusing on cultural education.
Written word magician
Being raised in Hong Kong, Alvin has long developed his loving sentiment towards his homeland. He is a new graduate of Translation Studies and Linguistics in HKU. With his passion and interests in language studies, he believes in the power of language as a good and intimate medium for everyone to get involved in the local culture of a lovely place like Hong Kong. Alvin is recently working on spreading Cantonese and local Hong Kong cultures. He is mainly responsible for the translation and language editing in the team of Dear Hong Kong.
Photographer
Bradley is on the threshold of having lived in Hong Kong for longer than any other city. His years here have been characterized by the struggle of Hong Kongers to present an identity of the territory defined on its own terms rather than by ties to an outside culture. As he passes the final months before becoming a permanent resident, he has joined the Dear HK project as a photographer to help to document and share the role of Hong Kong’s diversity in the city’s emerging self-definition.
May 2020. 1,2,3.. show with Noreen Mir
May 2020. Where is my motherland?
June 2020. Photobook project shines light on city’s cultural diversity
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