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May 2025
Embroidered Echoes: Artist-Led Workshop 4343
Free | RSVP What if the clothes we wear could speak? What would they remember – a scent, a moment, or a feeling? In this workshop, we invite you to reconnect with a personally meaningful piece of clothing or fabric in guided sensory exercises involving touch, smell and blindfolded reflection. Through drawing and embroidery, these memories will be transformed into stitched motifs – small, intimate emblems of personal stories. The experiential workshop will be led by artist and fashion designer…
Find out more »June 2025
CHAT Two-Day Summer Camp 4343
$960 | RSVP 10% discount for CHAT members, 15% for CHAT Patrons. Keen to dabble in making clothes – with nature? In this two-day summer camp, young creatives will draft, cut and sew their very own T-shirts at CHAT Lab. They will also discover the wonders of our rooftop farm at The Mills and learn how to make beautiful natural pigments and dyes from plants. Day 1: Design, Cut and Sew At CHAT Lab, participants will learn to create a…
Find out more »July 2025
Micro-noises: Sound Generator Workshop 4343
$450 | RSVP Psst! Have you ever noticed that everything in the world has a voice? Whether it’s as silent as a stone or as vibrant as a grass—everything around us can produce sound, even the most ordinary things. Led by the art group Prewangan Studio, you’ll have the chance to use a household object combined with electronic components to create a simple sound synthesiser. This experience lets you feel the pulse of your surroundings. So let’s take off our…
Find out more »Artist & Curator Sharing of Tidal Weavers: Islands Exchange 4343
$50 | RSVP Tidal Weavers: Islands Exchange brings together numerous grassroots art and cultural organisations across South China Sea. This exhibition showcases the works from artist residency programs, creating an ecosystem of stories, images, and rhythms that celebrate beautiful encounters across cultures. The event will be split into two parts: a guided tour and a sharing session. Through interactions with curators and artists, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the exhibition. Feel free to ask questions about the ideas and…
Find out more »Hong Kong Branch Weaving Workshop 4343
Deposit $50 | RSVP In Seed to Textile 2025, Hong Kong artist Sara Tse takes us on a journey to rediscover memories and stories through the embrace of nature, exploring the intricate connections between botanical and human heritage. In this artist-led workshop, you will weave together fabrics printed with vintage cyanotype images of Hong Kong and local tree branches using local fibres and naturally dyed yarn. Your work will become a part of Tse’s large-scale installation, which will be featured…
Find out more »August 2025
Knotted Stories: Artist-Led Ikat Experience 4343
$300 | RSVP Have you heard of ikat weaving? The term ikat originates from the Indonesian word for ‘to tie’. It is a textile technique where yarn is resist-dyed to form patterns before being woven into fabric. Let’s draw inspiration from this famous tradition and create unique pieces of art! In Tidal Weavers: Islands Exchange, Ma Wing Man Mandy’s works feature various motifs to encapsulate the spirit of the Maumere community in Indonesia, where she completed an artist residency. In…
Find out more »From Indonesia to Hong Kong: A Spirit Medium Show-and-Tell 4343
$50 Deposit | RSVP Are you curious about spirit mediumship but feel that it is too mysterious to approach? Then this sharing session is for you! This talk explores the intersection of religious beliefs, folk culture and daily life in the context of Hakka culture in Indonesia and Hong Kong. In the first part, artist Yip Kai Chun will share his encounter with the tatung spirit medium culture in Indonesia and the creative process behind his artwork in the exhibition…
Find out more »Weaving Inclusion: Community Building and Accessibility in Museums 4343
Free | RSVP CHAT’s Accessibility Docent Training Programme nurtures Deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals to become museum guides, who bring to life the rich textile heritage of Hong Kong by re-enacting textile makers’ stories in the Accessibility Tour using tactile and theatrical elements. In this sharing, a duo of Deaf and hearing docents will first present highlights from the Accessibility Tour. Local and international experts in community development and inclusive participation will then explore strategies to enhance accessibility through practical…
Find out more »Market as Muse: Art and Community in Pontianak 4343
Deposit $50 | RSVP How can we find new ways to connect with communities through alternative art spaces? On the upper floor of a local market in Pontianak, Indonesia, the Susur Galur art collective has established a community space for mutual learning and knowledge exchange, including research on traditional crafts, rivers, and maritime culture, such as the uses of squid ink. At CHAT, Susur Galur will share their experiences working with the local community amid the market’s hustle and bustle,…
Find out more »September 2025
Lecture Performance and Workshop by Mooni Perry: Every Flower Is Loved in Its Own Way 4343
Free | RSVP Join Mooni Perry, CHAT’s 2025 artist-in-residence, as she shares her research findings on women’s communities and rituals in Hong Kong and southern China, revealing how these practices refuse disappearance. This event explores ritual as a living practice while connecting past and present through memories passed down by women. Once an important social event for the region’s female communities, the birthday of the Seventh Sister (the Weaver, representing the star Vega) falls on the seventh day of the…
Find out more »Thread Goes Where Pencil Falls Short – Narrative Embroidery with Eva Volfová 4343
Deposit $100 | RSVP The popular workshop returns and continues to explore the endless storytelling possibilities of embroidery ! In this playful workshop, you will discover that thread and needle can be even more expressive than pencil. Czech artist and illustrator Eva Volfová will join us online and take us through the narrative power of embroidery. You will make use of a fabric printed with the artist’s illustration and craft your own tale with thread and needle – whether by…
Find out more »Interwoven Times: Seed to Textile 2025 Artist-Led Tour and Conversation 4343
Free | RSVP In CHAT’s community programme Seed to Textile 2025, Hong Kong artist Sara Tse has gathered oral histories and engaged the public in collaborative art making to unravel and reshape the entangled experiences of nature, textiles and people. This event will begin with a guided tour of the exhibition Seed to Textile 2025: Sara Tse Open Studio, led by the artist herself and the co-curator of the exhibition, Eugenia Law. Following the tour, Dr Vivian Ting and Dr…
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