Journey to win HKD50,000 YCE Start-up Fund: Unlocking the Secrets of Creative Entrepreneurship!
During this enlightening Incubation Mingle, we will explore the potential and actual challenges faced at different stages of starting a creative business. Our esteemed entrepreneurs will share their secrets of overcoming obstacles and sustaining their ventures with unwavering determination.
The Young Creative Entrepreneur (YCE) Award is an annual business start-up programme, funded by Mr. Brandon T.C. Liu, JP and organised by the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA), to provide participants with an opportunity to turn their creativity into feasible business ventures. The winner of the award will be granted up to HK$50,000 to execute their creative business.
This year we will invite previous awardees and creative entrepreneurs to share their experiences on brainstorming innovative concepts, and how to make it a self-sustainable business. Don’t miss these incredible opportunities!
(CCL) YCE Workshop 2:
Incubation Mingle - Unleashing Creative Entrepreneurship: Navigating Challenges and Unlocking Success in Your Business Journey
The Incubation Mingle will provide valuable insights into the world of entrepreneurship by featuring successful entrepreneurs who share the secrets of success. During the seminar, we will explore the potential and actual challenges faced at different stages of starting a creative business and investigate how these entrepreneurs overcame and sustained their ventures.
Date: 26 Apr 2024 (Fri)
Time: 15:30-17:00
Venue: BU Market – ACC G/F, HKBU, Kowloon Tong
Speakers : Wy LEE (2016 YCE Awardee, Co-founder of Toki Nashiki)
Ryan HUI (2016 YCE Awardee, Co-founder of Toki Nashiki)
Kwan TSE (AVA Alumni, Founder of Soekjing Studio)
Moderator: Anna QIN (Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean of School of Creative Arts, HKBU)
Language: Cantonese
Enquiry: Jolie Lee (3411-8213) / Sunday Lai (3411-8259)
Wy LEE (2016 YCE Awardee, Co-founder of Toki Nashiki)
Ryan HUI (2016 YCE Awardee, Co-founder of Toki Nashiki)
Ryan Hui Chun Kit and Wy Lee Wing Yee, a pair of rising new talents in the local art scene who work as a group namely “TOKI NASHIKI”. Graduated from the Hong Kong Baptist University with a Bachelor degree in 2015 and 2016, the duo formed their ceramic studio in the same year. They focus much of their effort in the creation and promotion of functional wares handcrafted in ceramics, based on a strong belief that the goodness in life can be appreciated through the making and usage of functional pottery. Since 2016, the duo has been actively teaching ceramics and holding exhibitions both locally and abroad, such as “AISUMICHA Glaze” (2017) which showed a range of ceramic wares coated in a special blue-green glaze that was newly invented by them. They often work collaboratively with other professionals specialising in different fields including dessert chefs, tea masters and flora masters, in order to extend their creative boundary and broaden their audience range.
Kwan TSE (AVA Alumni, Founder of Soekjing Studio)
Emerging artist from Hong Kong. In 2020, she established her own studio, Soekjing Studio, which involves different craftsmanship like glass blowing, stained glass making, metal and glass casting etc.
In 2019, she concluded her master’s degree in Glass Art and Science at VICARTE (Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes) in Portugal. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2015. Art enables her to find self and lose self at the same time.
Her work aims to animate the interconnection of the environment and beings. She crafts and reforms objects into a contraption in order to generate an extraordinary dialogue. Through the intrinsic properties of glass, by modelling, molding, tweaking and cajoling, expanding and oppressing, she creates objects to experience the struggle and the tension between her inner self and the outer world.