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M+ museum to offer 10,000 free tickets to Hong Kong students for its Yayoi Kusama exhibition to boost mental health
- Giveaway aims to help students feel comfortable talking about their mental health by viewing works of an artist who expressed her own challenges through her art
- The programme will also host art workshops that encourage students to create artworks themselves, using Yayoi Kusama as a catalyst
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Social distancing regulations have lifted and Hong Kong is officially open again, but returning to “normal” after the pandemic isn’t as easy as taking off a face mask. Many in Hong Kong are feeling stuck, a residual sense of unease and isolation hanging over them like a dark cloud.
The city’s shiny new M+ museum of visual culture is offering an antidote. What’s more, it’s free for students.
“Particularly in the post-pandemic moments where people are looking for connection, something tangible, there is something to be said for the process of going to a museum,” says Keri Ryan, lead curator for learning and interpretation at M+.
“An art museum does it well. It gives you the opportunity to slow down. I believe in the idea of slow looking, spending a long time looking at something.”
The museum has partnered with “Shall We Talk” – an initiative from the government’s advisory committee on mental health to broaden conversation on the topic – to launch “Shall We Talk at M+”.
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