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The Arts Center — Professional Certificate of Curatorship
Final Assignment
Introduction
Exhibition Topic
Exhibition Content
Exhibition Budget
Operational Plan
Funding
Catalogue Content
Publicity Plan
Educational Activities
Conclusion
ASSUMPTION:
As briefed by the lecturer, this is a proposal trying to convince the person in charge of the exhibition space that you have an intelligent, high quality exhibition that he/ she should support.
This proposal is aimed to send to the MTR Corporation Limited attention to Public Relations Manager, proposing to request their grant of right to set an exhibition in Hong Kong Station. MTR Corporation has been lending the public place to artists free of charge these two years in order to enhance their public image.
INTRODUCTION
Mission of “Independent Curatorship Association for Kids”
The mission is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and stimulate discussion in support of sustainable environments for children and youth in HK.
ICA for Kids is a voluntary organization with fundings from leading corporations who care about the kids in HK and accordingly the future of HK.
We truly believe this mission in line with the mission of the MTR Corporation — serving people.
EXHIBITION TOPIC
This exhibition idea is dawned after reading the below survey done by UK’s International Play Association” which was translated in Hong Kong Economic Times on July 6, 05 (p. A20)
To briefly summarize the article, it stated that there would be 33 things kids should do before they are ten!
Roll down a grassy bank
Make a mud pie
Prepare a modelling-dough mixture
Collect frogspawn
Make perfume from flower petals
Grow cress on a window sill
Make a paper-mache mask
Build a sandcastle
Climb a tree
Make a den in the garden
Paint using hands and feet
Organise a teddy bears picnic
Have a face-painting session
Bury a friend in the sand
Bake some bread
Make snow angels
Create a clay sculpture
Take part in a scavenger hunt
Camp out in the garden
Bake a cake
Feed a farm animal
Pick some strawberries
Play Pooh sticks
Recognise five bird species
Find some worms
Cycle through a muddy puddle
Make and fly a kite
Plant a tree
Build a nest from grass and twigs
Find ten different leaves in the park
Grow vegetables
Make breakfast in bed for mum and dad
Create a mini assault course in the garden
HENCE, we would curate an exhibition inviting 100 kids (under 10) of Hong Kong to show/ exhibit what they love to do with their hands. Drawing may be one of the things they love most.
Suggestion to Exhibition Name:
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EXHIBITION CONTENT
Participates
For those kids (under 10 years of old) staying in HK will be entitled to enter the exhibition. Maximum kids allowed will be 100 .
Notification of Schools
Publicity will be made in kinder-gardens and primary schools in Hong Kong. Email invitation will be sent to principals and posters will be sent to schools.
According to the Education and Manpower Bureau (ж*™Ð¸‚ІÐ*µ±Ð*±ÐŠÐµ±Ð‚), there are 737 kinder-gardens and 750 primary schools in HK.
This is not a compulsory homework or classwork. The school teachers will encourage them to participate. Enrollment will be registered via website. The kids can enroll themselves or via the help of their parents or teachers. The kids are required to state what kinds of art-piece they will create. First come first served. First 100 kids will be reserved with first 20 kids as list of supplementary.
Exhibition Venue and Time
The pieces of works will be cultivated by kids in April, 2006. The curator(s) will collect the pieces from kids.
After the artwork creation, there will be voluntary, yet professional staff of “ICA for Kids in HK” to facilitate the kids to express their art creation ideas onto the paper. The staff will be ready to accomplish the expression and installation within one month.
The whole exhibition will be applied to place in the long corridors