Colours of Humanity 2025 – Crip Zine-Making Workshop

COLOURS OF HUMANITY – COMMUNITY PITCH PROJECT

Knock Knock! Not the Front Door – a Crip Zine-Making Workshop

《叩叩！唔入正門——夬兒小誌工作坊》

c.95d8

Saturday 13 December
2.00 - 6.00pm

Terrible Baby Music Room, Eaton HK

Language:Cantonese with casual English translation
*Please reach out to the organisers on Instagram @c.95d8 if you have any special needs at the workshop or need help registering.

This workshop invites community members to actively feel, write and create from their own crip experiences. Crip here refers not only to pain, weakness, or limitation, but also to cuteness, creativity and the power to imagine alternatives. The workshop draws inspiration from the exhibition Crip Time 間. The radical “door” 門 in the title becomes the focal point: words formed with this radical (such as 間, 閒, 關, 聞, 閘) evoke thresholds, boundaries, and transitions. Just as a door mediates between spaces, disability exists within the boundaries of body and time: the finiteness of life, light and darkness, nearness and distance. Participants will reinterpret “door” characters alongside their crip experiences, transforming embodied vulnerability into new language and form.

Body Workshop

Led by rope artist Aka Chow, participants will engage in a body-and-rope session to physically sense their own pain, weakness or vulnerability. 

Communal Tea x Font Design Sharing

Over tea and shared food (participants are invited to bring one item to share), participants will be invited by font designer Lo Yiu Fai (Siu Bo)（小寶）to reimagine Chinese characters through personal expression.

Zine Creation

Participants will be guided to design their own zine, combining personal reflections from the body workshop with visual and textual reinterpretations of their chosen character.

About c.95d8c.95d8 is a local arts and cultural co-living space and collective established in 2022, dedicated to promoting art, culture, and disability inclusion. They explore the diverse abilities of individuals and communities, transforming acts of creation into opportunities for sharing, connection, and intentional engagement. By fostering exchanges of diverse perspectives, c.95d8 embodies empathy, strength, and vulnerability. Grounded in the cultural theory of Crip Theory, c.95d8 organized Hong Kong’s first Crip Art Residency and exhibition in 2024. 

 
About the artists

Aka Chow is a rope artist who applies shibari techniques to transform bodies and objects into a new art form. Through photography, live performance and workshops, she experiments with rope bondage to expand its possibilities — engaging in playful bodily exploration and creating altered perceptions. Her work addresses sexuality, gender and the female experience, probing the intersections of body and mind. 

Lo Yiu Fai (Siu Bo) is a text-based designer and member of St. James’ Settlement ‘Weighty Design Studio’ and ha been a participant of the Jockey Club Collaborative Project for Inclusive Employment since 2022. He is the designer behind the Self-Cook Daily boardgame and collaborated with Kindival in 2023 on game development. He was also the character designer at the c.95d8 Crip Art Residency in 2025.

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Aka Chow, 繩縛藝術實踐者。

以繩轉化身體與物作藝術實驗，通過書寫/攝影/表演/工作坊等實踐，進行思考與創造，摸索繩縛與藝術的更多可能性--自由的身體嬉玩與感官創造。

關注性/別/身體/女性/心靈。由書寫到實踐繩縛，重新檢視身體經驗，發現文字以外的感官思考。（撰寫評論刊於Art Plus APRIL 2017 繩縛：肉與美之捆綁美學）

羅耀煇（小寶）持續專注字體設計創作，為聖雅各福群會「重量級設計室」成員。自 2022 年起參與賽馬會共融．知行計劃 -「穩工」斜槓職涯計劃，同年創作桌遊《自煮日常》，於 2023 年與悠遊樂園合作開發桌上遊戲之字體設計，2025年以字體設計師參與c.95d8 舉行之夬兒藝術駐留。

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