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SCMP Reporter

Address: 4/F, Causeway Bay Community Centre, 7 Fook Yum Road, Causeway Bay

What: Under the theme  'Arts are for Everyone', Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADA) has been organising stage performances, exhibitions, arts festivals, training sessions,  workshops and leisure activities for handicapped people.

ADA was set up in  1986, following Hong Kong's first Festival of Arts with the Disabled. Its logo - two interlocked jigsaw-puzzles - represents the harmonious relationship  between able-bodied and disabled people  in life as well as artistic creations.

How: Visit www.adahk.org.hk. ADA needs volunteers - with or without artistic expertise - to help with activities or arts days in special schools.

These programmes come under the Jockey Club Arts for the Disabled Scheme. Special schools interested in holding an arts day can call ADA on 2855 9548 for more information.

Volunteer: Jack Cheung Ki-tang, 20, is a student at the City University of Hong Kong. He has been doing voluntary work for ADA since June.

'I helped ADA organise its recent flag day and have helped in four of its arts days at special schools. Art tutors taught the children a wide variety of activities, such as painting and creating puppets.

Our emphasis is on helping the students to develop their abilities during the creative process.

The students greatly enjoyed the creative process, which involved activities such as using acrylic to paint or making three-dimensional artworks from old newspapers. The atmosphere was wonderful once the teachers got involved and had fun together with the students.

I don't believe that art always has to be beautiful. It's more about expressing one's ideas and feelings.

When the students are happy and use their paintbrushes to express themselves, the work itself is a cheerful painting.

I have taken part in voluntary services for the blind before, but my experience with ADA allowed me to have contact with different kinds of people with special needs.

In order to successfully co-operate  with people who have disabilities, able-bodied people must be patient and put in the effort to understand their handicapped counterparts.

People with special needs have their own abilities and qualities and they rarely get an opportunity to develop them. I think they should have more opportunities to create art.'



Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong