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Every Saturday, the curatorial team will guide participants through the two exhibition venues, beginning with the four groups of artworks and entering the memories and everyday life of Sai Wan across different periods. Through sharing the artists’ concepts, creative processes and the community stories behind the works, participants will explore the changing landscapes and everyday rhythms of Sai Wan across different periods of time.

If one were to write a children’s song for Sai Wan, what would you wish to pass on to the future generations? If Sai Wan’s history were revisited through childhood memories from different eras, what kind of surreal fairytale might be composed?Artist Yim Sui-fong will introduce the creative ideas and anecdotes behind Songs Wandering through Sai Wan, analyse different forms of children’s songs, and invite participants to improvise and rewrite Cantonese nursery rhymes together. The workshop will conclude with a group singing of the newly written lyrics.These Sai Wan songs may be subjective, nostalgic, or delightfully absurd, yet they may also become part of a creative gathering filled with shared memories and resonances.This workshop comprises four sessions designed for different age groups, inviting participants to draw on their own childhood memories and collectively create songs inspired by Sai Wan.

If Sai Ying Pun were experienced not through sight but only through listening, what kind of place might it become?Artist Larry Shuen will share his observations of heritage sites, terrain, movements and sound gathered through his walks in Sai Ying Pun. From seemingly symmetrical landscapes emerge asymmetrical soundscapes,   what might be heard by one pair of ears and how might that differ from what is heard by many?Participants will take up the “field sound tasks” designed by the artist, approaching heritage sites to search for and record sounds from different surrounding positions. Moving from individual listening towards a collective soundscape, participants will work together to create a sonic record belonging to Sai Ying Pun.