"The 'C' Word" was a community art project designed by Rae Leung and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation (YAF) in 2010, to empower young adults living with cancer with tools of creative expression to articulate their experience dealing with the disease.
Through a series of creative workshops, participants were encouraged to express their feelings and share their experience with cancer through new, contemporary art forms of visual and digital media, as well as the written word. These unique expressions were then curated into a public exhibition at the end of the program, which demystified the many issues surrounding cancer, as well as bare its many truths.
Through a series of creative workshops, participants were encouraged to express their feelings and share their experience with cancer through new, contemporary art forms of visual and digital media, as well as the written word. These unique expressions were then curated into a public exhibition at the end of the program, which demystified the many issues surrounding cancer, as well as bare its many truths.
Photography by Sean Lee Davies
The exhibition ran from June 3 to 12, 2010 at Artistree, space graciously sponsored by Swire Properties.
The project was generously funded by Operation Santa Claus, an annual charity fund raising effort organised by local media groups South China Morning Post (SCMP) and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) which supports a broad variety of charities and causes throughout Hong Kong.
The project was generously funded by Operation Santa Claus, an annual charity fund raising effort organised by local media groups South China Morning Post (SCMP) and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) which supports a broad variety of charities and causes throughout Hong Kong.
A short film was produced and shown as part of "The 'C' Word" exhibition. Written by Rae Leung and Sean Lee Davies, produced by Sum-Sum Tse, edited by Poyi Lam. Watch on Vimeo.