TWGHs i-dArt：Grandpa Grandma Series:“Next Stop … the Blink Blink Place” –expressive art lessons on life and death with elderly Opening was held in the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Hall on 19 June, in co-organization with TWGHs Embracing the Setting Sun Project and  Art for All . This exhibition featured different art works created by the elderly to show their thoughts towards living, aging, sickness and death.

Organizing Grandpa Grandma Series:“Next Stop … the Blink Blink Place” –expressive art lessons on life and death with elderly Exhibition , i-dArt believes art and play will invigorate the elderly and extend their lives with laughters to make them fuller. All art works , which created by the elderly, has one’s own precious “ Caterpillar of Life” storing all the memories and experiences in the journey of life. The co-created “Blink Blink paradise” is the after-life world richly filled with fantasies: the unknowns have become imaginations and are presented before our eyes.

In 2013, TWGHs i-dArt and Embracing the Setting Sun Project aiming to developing life education for the elderly invited artists from Art for All again to participate in another workshop.  These artists, co-worked with social workers,  interacted with the elderly through various art media, sensory activities and games to let them tell their feelings of living, aging, sickness and death in a relaxed, happy and bright atmosphere. In order to showcase the elderly’s thoughts towards life and death by various art ,this exhibition will be lasted from 20 June to 6 July 2015 ( more details on appendix ) and free entry to public.

TWGHs i-dArt aims at developing community art projects, in order to encourage people with different abilities to take part in art-making by utilizing different media and opening public art space. Appreciating and creating artworks is an inborn right of human beings. What we should focus on is the power of art, instead of the intellectual or physical abilities of artists. Holding such faith, i-dArt promotes art so as to demonstrate the abilities of everybody, as well as to foster the understanding between people with different abilities.

Since its establishment in 1870, TWGHs has been all along upholding its mission “To heal the sick and to relieve the distressed; to care for the elderly and to rehabilitate the disabled; to promote education and to nurture youngsters; and to raise the infants and to guide the children.” Nowadays, TWGHs has become the largest charitable organization in Hong Kong. For over a hundred years, TWGHs’ medical and health, education and community services have developed rapidly to fulfill the needs of the society and to provide high quality services at low rates. Today, TWGHs operates over 292 services centres, including 5 hospitals and health services and 27 Chinese medicine services centres, 53 education services centres, 205 community services centres that cover elderly, youth and family, rehabilitation and traditional services, whilst the Tung Wah Museum strives to promote, restore and preserve the heritage and relics of TWGHs. TWGHs Record Centre has been set up to preserve TWGHs’ valuable cultural assets.

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