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"Artlink" is an international art exchange programme. Participants take part in arts activities guided by art facilitators in the Jockey Club Inclusive Arts Studio. Through their artworks, the Project links up participants in Hong Kong and other countries who exchange their culture and customs through the art. In the past nine years, participants from Hong Kong have exchanged with friends from USA, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Germany, based on the theme such as festivals, wet market, plants, toys, the elements of art, communities and folk stories.
In 2022-2025, the programme will continue to encourage the participants to learn more about their own cultures, while respecting and appreciating those of others. More online sessions will be delivered to foster closer relationship between local and overseas participants, providing a platforms where they can freely express themselves in arts and share their experience. Part of the artworks will be posted to each other. Photos and paragraphs about the creating process will be posted on Facebook page. Apart from the participants, colleagues and staffs from the overseas organization will take a more active part in the art creation process. Selected artworks will be sent to the participants in another country and exhibited in the annual exhibition of the project in Hong Kong.
Application for Artlink 2023-2024 is closed
All primary, secondary schools and rehabilitation institutions in Hong Kong are welcome to apply for Artlink 2022-2025!
Artlink 2014-15 (1st Term) ended satisfactorily! In this term, “Artlink” was included as the fringe activity of “Art@Government Buildings 2013-14” with the support from the Art Promotion Office, Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Community Art Network, in response to the artwork “The Letters” by local artist Haynie Sze Wing-yee, at The General Post Office, which benefits more schools and participants.
During October to December 2014, participants from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Texas (US) carried out different arts activities creation based on the theme “With Art and Letter, We Share Lives”.
Participants from Hong Kong learned about different kinds of mailing medium, and different mailing targets by creating handwriting letters, drawings and postcards. Participants from Taiwan shared their school life by making a storybook with painting, photography and collage. Participants from Texas created a unique three-dimensional artwork “Piñata”, to introduce the festival culture spread from México to United State.
Hong Kong Participating Schools (in alphabetical order):
C.C.C. M.K. Church Kai Oi School
Hong Chi Morninghill School, Tuen Mun
Lutheran School for the Deaf
Mary Rose School
Oak Tin Catholic Primary School
Pui Kiu College
Sam Shui Natives Association Lau Pun Cheung School