17/2/2011
VAECD staff and student projects 2010-2011 application result announcements

After assessed by the Proposal Review Committee, the awarded student and staff projects of VAECD 2010-2011 were announced ealier. Congratulation to the awarded project groups!

This is the second year for the VAECD Project. The Project aims to initiate knowledge transfer through arts by providing funding to the staff and students to engage in education, community development, and professional research activities in visual arts. From the perspective of art education, participants are encouraged to apply their subject knowledge and skills to community services. It is hoped that the project activities will raise the public’s awareness and concern for the under-privileged community groups, and that the community art activities will accelerate social development. The VAECD Project is committed to the promotion of values, culture and heritage of Hong Kong through visual arts activities.

The awarded projects for this year are as shown below:

10/1/2011
Big Ideas - Annual Exhibition of the Visual Arts Education and Community Development Project 2009-2010

The Exhibition will showcase remarkable effort made towards combining art, volunteering and educational activities for youth, elderly people and the community by the Institute’s Visual Arts teaching staff and students. Their initiatives in leading students to build up a positive life attitude and bring joy and laughter to the elderly have aroused social concern about the power of art.

Featuring the seven community-based art projects carried out in 2009-2010, the display will include design works for the old shops in Central and Sheung Wan, story behind the development of a multimedia and interactive guide for Hong Kong‘s art museums, outcomes of “Artistic Power” Volunteer Youth Scheme and “Install Your Life” art installation activities; also, a special exhibition of ceramic works by the elderly and more. These projects are funded by the Visual Arts Education and Community Development Project (VAECD), Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, HKIEd.

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9/9/2010
VAECD Project 2010-11– Student Group is open for application!

If you wish to…

serve the community, learn to organize the activities, try to run a business, build up competiveness upon graduation…Welcome to join the VAECD Project!

Full-time Visual Arts students will be sponsored to organize the below categories of the VAECD Project:

1. Community Service
2. Art Education
3. art/craft enterprise project

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17/8/2010
Art education activity ─ Install Your Life!
“Install Your Life!” Art Installation Exhibition

Art education activity – “Install Your Life!” will hold the “Install Your Life!” Art Installation Exhibition from 22 August to 25 August in Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC). The exhibition will showcase the arts installation in expressing the theme “Cherish Your Life, Live Positively”. The art pieces are created by participants from 6 secondary schools. “Install Your Life!” is an art installation education activity aiming to encourage secondary students to think deeply about the meaning of life and express the message of “Cherish Your Life, Live Positively” through art installations. They will also learn to cope with crisis and life depressions, and develop the values of embracing life and being positive.

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Art education activity ─ Install Your Life!

30/7/2010
Community services project ─ "Artistic Power" Volunteer Scheme
Graduation Ceremony Cum Sharing Exhibition

The student group of the Community service project "Artistic Power" Volunteer Scheme will hold an exhibition to showcase the mural painting with theme “Young people．Positive Energy” created by the teenagers participants and creative works, and a sharing session to promote positive message to public. The exhibition will be held from 1 August to 10 August, 2010.

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Community services project ─ "Artistic Power" Volunteer Scheme

30/6/2010
Art exhibition ─ Art in Old Shops Exhibition

To raise public’s concern and support to art and reservation of local culture, the Staff Project, “Art in Old Shops”, and HULU Culture co-organise the “Art in Old Shops Exhibition” to be held from 4 July to 20 July 2010. The exhibition will take place in five old shops in Central and Sheung Wan. 16 innovative pieces of HKIEd students’ mixed media artworks developed from their study on traditional crafts will be showcased. Blending together traditions and innovation, the showcased artworks will craft a new and old Hong Kong story.

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Art exhibition ─ Art in Old Shops Workshop

28/6/2010
Leading student groups in community services project ─ School-based Service Learning Scheme: Leading students into school communities

The Staff Project “School-based Service Learning Scheme: Leading students into school communities” has been launched! The project aims to provide a context in secondary and primary schools for the HKIEd’s Visual Arts students and school visual arts teachers for collaboration and servicing in amending and designing their school-based curriculum, according to the paradigm shift of the visual arts curriculum change.

The HKIEd Visual Arts students will collaborate with the school visual arts teachers and study the current Visual Arts subject curriculum, as well as investigating the characteristic of the students, resources and limitation of the participated schools for designing a feasible school-based visual arts curriculum. . The schools involved are Conservative Baptist Lui Ming Choi Primary School, St Charles School, Pooi To Middle School and Kau Yan College. This project not only provides authentic experience to develop and implement a school-based visual arts curriculum, but also enhancing the knowledge of the school visual arts teachers in the new trends of the visual arts education and providing professional teaching support. The teaching units cover curriculum of high school, junior school, primary 1-3 and primary 4-6 and tryout teaching sessions will be taken place in the new academic year.

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Leading student groups in community services project ─ School-based Service Learning Scheme: Leading students into school communities

21/4/2010
"Artistic Power" Volunteer Scheme
Community services project ─ Recruitment of volunteer partners

The "Artistic Power" Volunteer Scheme hopes to collaborate with the secondary students through a series of training and community services to equip them with knowledge and skills of volunteer work and art creation. Student participants will carry out voluntary service in Breakthrough Youth Village and the service includes the idea of revitalizing the environment with art installations. The aim of the activity is to raise students’ awareness toward betterment of the community and to enjoy the fun of voluntary art work.

The recruitment of volunteer partner is opened for registration now. For details and registration, please refer to Details.

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Community services project ─ "Artistic Power" Volunteer Scheme

26/3/2010
Art exhibition ─ Art in Old Shops Workshop

The Staff Project “Art in Old Shops Workshop” will carry out the creative workshop and field study on 2 April. The renowned artist Leung Chi Wo, cross-media artist Au Yeung Ying Chai and documentary photographer Go Man Ching Simon are invited to host the talks and students will have a valuable chance to exchange ideas with different cultural artists.

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Art exhibition ─ Art in Old Shops Workshop

16/3/2010
Art education activity ─ Install Your Life!

Art education activity student group will launch the art installation education activity namely “Install Your Life!” in April and May!

"Install Your Life!” is an art installation education activity under the theme “Cherish Your Life, Live Positively”. This project hopes to encourage secondary students to think deeply about the meaning of life and express the message of “Cherish Your Life, Live Positively” through art installations. They will also learn to cope with crisis and life depressions, and develop the values of embracing life and being positive.

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Art education activity ─ Install Your Life!

The student art/craft enterprise project group will launch their first-ever enterprise business from 8 February (Monday) to 13 February (Saturday) at Stall No. 24 in Tin Hau Temple Fung Shui Square, Tai Po. Come along with your family and friends, and capture the “auspicious moment” with the specially created and contemporary New Year characters: Lucky Food, Spring Couplet and Red Packet, and even dressing up and become the “God of Fortune” with the instant photo-taking service!

Student art/craft enterprise project ─ Capture with Tiger Fu

4/2/2010
VAECD staff and student projects 2009-2010 application result announcements

After assessed by the Proposal Review Committee, the awarded student and staff projects of VAECD 2009-2010 were announced through emails in early January. Congratulation to the awarded project groups!

This is the first year for the VAECD Project to provide funding to the Visual Arts staff and students in arts education and community development activities, and professional research. They are encouraged to proceed from an educational perspective and extend to the community through designing, planning and organizing different community service activities that aim to address issues and improve social livelihood, especially for the under-privileged and elderly. It is also hoped that these activities can help promote social development. The VAECD Project is committed to the mission of preserving the values, culture and heritage of Hong Kong, as well as applying the subject knowledge and skills to the development of Hong Kong society.

The awarded projects for this year are as shown below:

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