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Accessibility Tour from Home: Welcome to the Spinning Factory!

Available from 22.05.2020

Accessibility Tour from Home is a series of online tours with audio description in Cantonese, Hong Kong sign language interpretation and accessible captions. The tour is divided into 4 chapters including History of Nan Fung Textiles, Industrial Machines and 5 Steps of Cotton Spinning, Cotton Products of the Everyday as well as Principles of a Spinning Wheel, for a wider audience to enjoy the highlights of Welcome to the Spinning Factory! Download Audio Description Script Chapter 1: History of Nan Fung […]

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CHERRY Draw Frame Demonstration

21.08.2021
18.09.2021
16.10.2021

Let’s witness Hong Kong’s only operating drawing frame machine in action at CHAT! Leung Fung Yee (Auntie Yee) worked as an experienced machine operator who operated spinning machines at different cotton mills, including Nan Fung Textile, from 1980s to 1990s. She is now retired but she comes to CHAT to make the ‘Cherry’ drawing frame come alive again! Performing one of the essential processes in the spinning production, this drawing frame is donated by the last cotton-spinning mill in Hong […]

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Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again

01.09-07.11.2021

Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again  is the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Yee I-Lann, an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist from Kota Kinabalu, the State of Sabah, Malaysia. Yee established her artistic career through digitally manipulating images from found photographs and historical archives. Her works respond to the modern history of the Southeast Asia Archipelago and its colonial past and postcolonial present. Interrogating the nature of photographic imagery, which often subconsciously capture power structures such as hegemony, hierarchy […]

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Seed to Textile 2021

01.09-07.11.2021

The textiles we wear are made of fabric. Most fabrics are woven or knitted fibres, some of which are derived from natural plants. This is why Seed to Textile, a year-long community project, traces textile manufacturing down to its origin. The ‘seed’ was sown when Vivek and Juli Cariappa from Krac-A-Dawna Organic Farm, our collaborators from Mysore, India visited Hong Kong during Summer Programme 2019. Alongside CHAT programmes, Vivek and Juli introduced their operation ecosystem from growing, producing to selling […]

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Stampede: Tikar-to-Go!

01.09-07.11.2021

A free, self-guided stamping activity for all, inviting our visitors to bring home a keepsake from the exhibition Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again . For CHAT Summer Programme 2021, design elements for the stamps are drawn from the work titled Tikar Emoji , which is a colourful handwoven tikar  (mat) composed of traditional patterns and smiling emojis. Traditionally, tikar creates an active space for people to gather and spend time with family, friends and their communities. What would you do on […]

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CHAT 5th Anniversary – Factory of Tomorrow

16.03.2024-14.07.2024

Does heritage only serve to record a bygone era and feed the nostalgia of those living in changing times? How can we collectively learn from the past and forge a better future? In spring 2024, CHAT celebrates its 5th anniversary with the group exhibition Factory of Tomorrow. Featuring CHAT’s own contemporary art collection and newly commissioned works, it endeavours to critically examine the past and evoke imagination for what is to come. From textile works and sculptures to immersive installations […]

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Come Closer Open Stage @ Tikar Emoji 

04.09-16.10.2021

In conjunction with the exhibition Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again  at CHAT, a large handwoven tikar  (mat) will be installed at The Hall of The Mills this summer as an open stage. Titled Tikar Emoji , the colourful handwoven artwork was realised in collaboration with Yee, the Dusun/Murut land people and the Bajau Laut/Sama Dilaut sea people of Sabah. On the tikar , traditional patterns and smiling emojis are meticulously overlaid. Tikar  creates an active space for people to gather and […]

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Curator Tour of Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again

25.09.2021
17.10.2021

Deposit $50|RSVP Takahashi Mizuki, the curator of CHAT’s Summer Programme 2021 Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again , will guide our visitors through the exhibition. Takahashi will introduce the artworks by artist Yee I-Lann, inviting visitors to discuss the ideas behind the works which explore the connections between Hong Kong and Sabah. Deposit will be refunded in full upon attending the programme. Language: English with consecutive interpretation to Cantonese  

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Following Traces: Spinning East Asia Creative Forum

05.10-19.10.2021

Spanning the Winter 2021 and Spring 2022 Programmes, the Spinning East Asia series presented by CHAT explores and attempts to make sense of the socio-cultural complexity of East Asia through the multiplicity of textiles. Before the official launch of the exhibition series, a series of online sharing entitled Following Traces will invite a few participating artists from the exhibition, as well as researchers and fellow speakers to share their thoughts, investigations and creative processes as they worked on these new […]

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