Family & Children Programs

Kid’s Calendar 2024 : Collecting The Art Words X BAB2024 – You Are My Sunshine by Choi Jeong Hwa: BAB2024 – Nurture Gaia

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By Education Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in collaboration with Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation
Time: 13.00 – 17.00 hrs.

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Instructor: Choi Jeong Hwa

“Nature gave birth to us, and we discovered plastic. If plastic is our child, and these materials are our “mother,” how do we perceive them?” – Choi Jeong Hwa (an artist from Bangkok Art Biennale 2024)

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, in collaboration with Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation, invites children, families, and the general public to relax and join in Kid’s Calendar 2024: Collecting The Art Words X BAB 2024 activity for October under the theme You Are My Sunshine by Choi Jeong Hwa: BAB2024 – Nurture Gaia. This art project aims to raise awareness of the deep philosophical value and meaning behind the relationship between humans, nature, and plastic. Participants will also have the opportunity to create artwork together with internationally renowned artist Choi Jeong Hwa, a South Korean artist and designer whose work moves between the disciplines of visual art, graphic design, industrial design and architecture. from the Bangkok Art Biennale 2024.

Participants will learn the creative process of making art from plastic waste closely with the artist. Each participant’s artwork will be part of the project “You Are My Sunshine” by Choi Jeong Hwa, which will be exhibited at the Sustainability Expo 2024 (SX 2024), the largest sustainability expo in the region. The artworks created by all participants will be displayed after the activity until October 21, 2024, at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC).

For anyone interested in donating used plastics, you can participate in ‘Be Someone’s Sunshine’ activity by bringing cleaned plastics (any type) and donating it at the plastic donation boxes on the 1st (near Door no. 2) and 3rd floors (near the BTS Skytrain connection entrance) of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from today until Friday, October 11, 2024.

Register via Google forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBogEGeeA65nDXNakODXR2Sug10u8KdmMg32xZfFZekkoTfw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Required equipment: Used plastics that has been cleaned (*any type).

– Unlimited seats (announced via email)
– Free of charge
– Suitable for children, youth, and families (*no age restriction)
– For the general public who are interested, walk-in is welcome on the workshop day

For more information, please contact:
Education Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Tel: +66 (0) 2 214 6630-8 ext. 519
Email: [email protected]