No Limits Community Showcases
Programme Introduction
Between October 2024 and March 2025, No Limits 2025 presents a series of performance-based community showcases created collaboratively with differently abled participants of No Limits programmes and local organisations working with disabled communities in Hong Kong. These showcases cultivate a deeper understanding and appreciation of the richness that inclusivity brings to our communities.
In October 2024, the showcase presented performances created as part of The Story of Motion 2.0 – an inclusive dance project for people with visual impairments. In 2025 the performances are created as part of the No Limits Creative Pilot Programme with practice-based teacher training offered in collaboration with world-leading inclusive dance organisation Candoco Dance Company from the UK. The course offered local teachers of dance, drama or performance hands-on experience of working with disabled and nondisabled students and incorporating inclusive practices into their classes. The showcase performances were created collaboratively by the teachers and their students.
No Limits Community Showcases #2
11 January 2025 (Sat), 2pm - 5pm
12 January 2025 (Sun), 2pm - 5pm
The No Limits Pilot Creative Programme offers local teachers of dance, drama or performance hands-on experience of incorporating inclusive practice into the classroom. The programme is conducted in collaboration with Candoco Dance Company, a world-leading, professional inclusive dance organisation based in the UK.
In October 2024, selected teachers joined a two-week intensive training course on methodologies for inclusive teaching and performance practices led by members of Candoco Dance Company. After the training, teachers are offered hands-on experience working with people with disabilities at a local community centre. This January at Tai Kwun, they will bring us three pieces of performances. Details as follow:
- 《Yes, But~ 》
Participating Unit: Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK) - 《Living is…》
Participating Unit: St. James' Settlement Jockey Club Artspiration Academy - 《The Take》
Participating Unit: Lok Chi Association
Time: 2pm – 2:30pm
* Audio description in Cantonese available; guide dogs welcome
Teachers and representatives of the community centres will share with us their journey in 2025 No Limits Pilot Creative Programme, as well as their insights on inclusive teaching practices.
Time: 2:30pm - 3pm
* Conducted in Cantonese, and interpretation in Hong Kong Sign Language available; guide dogs welcome
A darkly comic experimental love story about a man who goes through hell to reach his loved one
Award-winning Finnish director Teemu Nikki presents an extraordinary film about love, determination and the challenges of navigating the world as a disabled person.
Jaako and his long-distance girlfriend Sirpa share a passion for films but have never met. After one of their daily phone calls, Jaako spontaneously decides to make his way across Finland to visit her. Despite his charm and optimism, as a visually impaired wheelchair user, Jaako knows that he will be dependent on the help of strangers to navigate the urban landscapes along the way… What could possibly go wrong?
Based in part on the day-to-day experiences of actor Petri Poikolainen, who, like his character Jaako, has vision loss and partial paralysis from multiple sclerosis, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic offers an intensely immersive perspective on the challenges of navigating the world as a blind wheelchair user. The film won best feature film, best screenplay and best leading actor awards at the 2022 Beijing International Film Festival, and the Orizzonti Extra audience award at the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
Time: 3pm
*Subtitles in Chinese and English, dubbing in Cantonese and audio description in Cantonese available; guide dogs welcome
Language: Finnish
Duration: 85 minutes
This film is a Class IIA film and contains strong language.
