After Life Design for Lost Wings Theatre Land Art Festival
The Lost Child Project Hong Kong Limited collaborates with sustainable fashion artivist and practitioner Kay Wong to oversee and implement the upcycling efforts for a funded initiative with a series of natural art education activities and a theatre festival scheduled from 2023 to 2025. To address the substantial resource consumption in theatre, the project aims to transform the traditional TAKE-MAKE-DISPOSE model into a circular one, seeks to enhance the community’s well-being through art and implements a sustainable production model. The project team will collect all props and costumes created during the programs and repurpose them into designer items (such as coasters and bookmarks) for distribution and selling to the public.
The Lost Child Project Hong Kong Limited collaborates with sustainable fashion artivist and practitioner Kay Wong to oversee and implement the upcycling efforts for a funded initiative with a series of natural art education activities and a theatre festival scheduled from 2023 to 2025. To address the substantial resource consumption in theatre, the project aims to transform the traditional TAKE-MAKE-DISPOSE model into a circular one, seeks to enhance the community’s well-being through art and implements a sustainable production model. The project team will collect all props and costumes created during the programs and repurpose them into designer items (such as coasters and bookmarks) for distribution and selling to the public.
- 2024
- Grantee: Olivia Yan
Olivia Yan is currently the Artistic Director of the O Theatre Workshop Limited and Lost Child Project HK Limited, and Co-opted member in the Performing Arts Committee of the West Kowloon Cultural District.
She is a multifaceted figure in contemporary Asian theater, excelling in various roles such as playwright, director, performer, teacher, writer, and artistic director. With thirty years of experience in artistic creation, teaching, and theater company management, she has successfully created over 50 stage productions.
In recent years, she has extended her theatrical effort to serve the community. Olivia has jointly worked with Tai Kwun in organising “ELAN Lost Child Project HK”, with its mission to utilize performing arts as a creative means to raise public awareness of mental and emotional well-being. The Project has received the “Arts Promotion Award” in the HKADC Hong Kong Arts Awards 2021.
In 2024, she published a book titled "BAD ACTiNG: 5 Lessons to Kick Out Bad Acting Skills."
- Organisation: Lost Child Project Hong Kong
In 2018, moved by the alarming youth and children suicide rates, Olivia Yan invited internationally renowned physical theatre director and educator David Glass to collaboratively launch the “Lost Child Project in HK” initiative. The initiative uses performing arts as a bridge to address the mental health of young people and children and rebuild their spiritual values and happiness.
With support from Tai Kwun, the project was presented in a larger scale in 2020-2022 as two editions of “ÉLAN Lost Child Project HK”, and was granted the “2021 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards – Award for Arts Promotion”.
The project officially became a charity organization in 2021, allowing for further development to fulfill its mission of rebuilding the confidence and hope of young people, children, and every Lost Child, reigniting hope in a generation that feels lost.