Art Facilitation and Hospital Archives Subcommittee

Art Facilitation ─ “Art-in-CPH” Project

The “Art-in-CPH” project was launched in November 2003 by the Art Facilitation and Hospital Archives Subcommittee of the Institute of Mental Health, Castle Peak Hospital. Under the project, various art programmes are organised to help service users develop creativity and talent in art. The project also aims at promoting collaboration between service users, professional staff, carers and the general public in art production to achieve our goal of “Art for All.”

Missions

1. To coordinate various creative art activities ; 2. To arouse service users’ interest in art to facilitate rehabilitation and enhance their quality of life ; 3. To organise training programmes on art facilitation for mental health professionals ; 4. To collaborate community art activities ; 5. To achieve destigmatisation of mental illness through exhibition on service users’ activities, creativity and talents.

Artwork Collection

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Activities Snapshots

Drawing exhibition

Art Garden

Selected Artworks

Photography Oil Painting

Hospital Archives

The Subcommittee serves to enhance public's knowledge of mental illness and the development of psychiatry and reduce their misunderstanding and prejudice by collecting, evacuating, organising and researching on local mental health services archives and history systematically and holding exhibitions.

Long Road to Our Verdant Peak - Brief History of Psychiatric Service in Hong Kong

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