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EVENT DESCRIPTION
Eaton HK celebrates LGBT Pride Month in June and Disability Pride Month in July this year with a festival of programming: “Eclipsed Bodies, Embraced Pride”. The title draws inspiration from the celestial phenomenon of eclipses, nodding to Eaton’s goal to illuminate the experiences of our LGBTQ+ and disability communities, whose narratives and contributions are often overshadowed and undermined by cis-heteronormative and ableist values and views.
Eaton HK’s Pride Month will feature a lineup of over 30 diverse activities and experiences, including discussions, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, performances and parties. Eaton has partnered with organizations and individuals from across the world, including Alongside, Brainfood, The Coming Society, Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong, Crip Art Residency, DragJam, FLUID HK, Gay Harmony, Gender Empowerment, HASS Lab, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Pride Parade, Macau Queer Film Festival, Next Chapter LGBT, Queer Reads Library, Queerest, Rainbow of Hong Kong, and other organizations, artists, change-makers and scholars.
A portion of the funds raised during this program will support two local LGBTQ+ and disability community platforms: A-lephants and c.95d8, both established to foster awareness, support, and equality efforts related to gender, sexuality, and disabilities.
Exhibitions: ‘Family Portrait’ & ‘Bits of Pictures and Bobs of Thoughts— Ahko’s Life in Sketches’
Family Portrait
Date: 31 May – 1 July 2024
Time: 11am – 9pm
Venue: Tomorrow Maybe, 4/F, Eaton HK
Bits of Pictures and Bobs of Thoughts— Ahko’s Life in Sketches
Date: 12 Jul – 12 Aug 2024
Time: 11am – 10pm
Venue: Foodhall, LG, Eaton HK
Queer and disabled individuals often find themselves born into families where they are the only ones with their identity or condition. These differences can lead to a divergence in self-understanding and create emotional distance. Two mixed media exhibitions, ‘Family Portrait’ and ‘Bits of Pictures and Bobs of Thoughts— Ahko’s Life in Sketches’ seek to illuminate the experiences and challenges faced by queer and disabled families in Hong Kong, the United States, and France within the context of their biological families through artworks focused on personal stories.
‘Family Portrait’ is a group exhibition with artworks portraying the joys and pains of the kinship of both gender and sexual minorities, persons with mental and neurological condition and explores artistic practices as a tool for emotional healing of family trauma and historical writing of queerness and madness. The exhibition features the works of lesbian cinema pioneer, Barbara Hammer, as well as black queer artist Jacolby Satterwhite (who recently received a commission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to showcase multimedia work in The Great Hall). Additionally, up-and-coming Hong Kong female filmmaker Natalie Chao, Non-binary performance artist Holok Chen, and painter Rico Lau will contribute their unique perspectives of bondings with family members with depression, schizophrenia and intellectual disability to the exhibition.
Queer Zine Market
To celebrate queer literary culture, Eaton HK and Queer Reads Library are proud to co-present QUEER READS FRIENDS MARKET, the first-ever Queer Zine Market in Hong Kong on 29 June. This event brings together over 10 independent artists, writers, illustrators, and publishers from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Palenstine, the U.K. and the U.S.A., including Loneliness Books, Mixed Rice Zines, MUM’s NOT HOME, Onebookhalf Gender Space, etc. The market will also feature panels and workshops on self-publishing and printmaking specifically designed for gender and sexual minorities.
Drag Parties
Drag Scene Tour
Date: 29 June 2024
Time: 9pm till late
Venue: Music Room, 4/F, Eaton HK
Vitamin Gay
Date: 22 June 2024
Time: 9pm till late
Venue: Music Room, 4/F, Eaton HK
The Vitamin Gay and Drag Scenes Tour brings together two prominent forces in the drag communities of Hong Kong and Shanghai: Drag Jam and Queerest.
Similar to how vitamins and minerals nourish our bodies, the art of drag is a vital nutrient that fosters the bonds, solidarity, and overall well-being of LGBTQ+ communities. The “Vitamin Gay” Party on 22 June serves as this essential nourishment for the queer community, providing a space to come together, celebrate diverse gender and sexual identities, and find queer kinship and rejuvenation through the transformative power of drag.
Crip Art Residency Exhibition and Panels
Crip: An Exhibition
Date: 4 July – 16 July 2024
Time: 11am-9pm
Venue: Tomorrow Maybe 4/F Eaton HK
Crip Art Residency – Crip the Art! – Sharing by Jeremy Hawkes
Date: 15 July 2024
Time: 1:30-3:30pm
Venue: Kino 1/F Eaton HK
Disability Art? Crip Art? – Sharing different models of disability art practices by Janet Tam
Date: 15 July 2024
Time: 4-6pm
Venue: Kino 1/F Eaton HK
Body Workshop by SIu Fong Yeung
Date: 29 June 2024
Time: 1-3pm
Venue: Anita 2/F Eaton HK
“Crip,” a term historically used as slang for “cripple”, is currently undergoing a process of reclamation by the disabled community. It has become an identity through which individuals express pride in being part of the disability community and resilience in the face of the ongoing struggle for rights, equity, and resistance against ableism and oppression.
In collaboration with c.95d8, Eaton HK proudly presents the inaugural Crip Art Residency exhibition, along with panels and workshops led by experienced queer disabled artists from Hong Kong and Australia, including Jeremy Hawkes and Siu Fong Yeung. This program delves into the creation of art rooted in the lived experiences of crips, aiming to dismantle the invisible barriers imposed by disability and foster a truly inclusive art ecosystem.
Workshops booking:
https://www.eatonworkshop.com/en-us/hong-kong/eaton-hotel-hk-love-is-love-package/
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