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Sports can help to build and foster a community and unite people, so can art. People with different abilities or backgrounds have equal rights to enjoy sports and art too.

Co-organized with Gay Games Hong Kong (GGHK), the following activities aim to encourage participants to embrace diversity in our community, exercise mutual respect and understanding to every individual for who they are. Let’s celebrate unity in diversity!

Tactile Art Exhibition

Co-hosted with Beyond Vision International, the exhibition features a recreation of photographs from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games using three-dimensional materials.

Coupled with the application of the Tactile-Audio Interaction System (TAIS), both sighted and non-sighted persons can explore the world of sports and engage in a multi-sensory visual arts experience - through touch, hearing and feeling.

Date: 20 - 31 Mar

Venue: Outside LT-J

[Talk] Colors of Life Beyond Sight

Dr Rico Chan of Beyond Vision International created tactile ways for the visually impaired to "SEE" and experience enriched forms of art by feeling the layers of the artwork, reaching a realm that braille and audio description cannot.

Join us as Rico shares how creativity could be a powerful impetus to impacting the society, fostering diversity and making the world a more equal and enriching place for all.

Date & Time: 28 March (Tue) | 6 - 7pm

Online via Zoom

Fencing Exhibition Match @Atrium

HKUST Fencing Team will hold a Wheelchair Fencing Exhibition Match with the para-fences of Hong Kong Wheelchair Fencing Team. The international para-fencing medalists, FAN Pui Shan, CHUNG Yuen Ping and TONG Nga Ting will participate in the match to demonstrate their brilliant skills as well as showcasing the diversity and inclusivity of sports.

The experience booth will also be set up at the Atrium to let you have a taste on the techniques and skills of wheelchair fencing. Mark the date!

Date: 29 Mar (Wed)

Exhibition Match: 1 - 2pm

Experience Booth: 12 - 3pm

Venue: The Hong Kong Jockey Club Atrium

The worldwide sport and cultural event, Gay Games 11, for the first time in Asia in Hong Kong, open for all!

With GGHK funding support, you (aged 18-25) can apply for a waiver of the Registration fee and 1 Sport fee in Gay Games 11, on a first-come-first-served basis. Apply for the fee-waiver programme now!

More activities will be announced in due course.
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