Description
*This program is mainly in Cantonese*
About the organiser
What is CODA?
Have you ever watched the Korean drama "Twinkling Watermelon"? (韓劇《閃亮的西瓜》). This is a TV series about CODA. The director spent a lot of effort on presenting the difficulties that CODA and deaf people encountered during their growth and brought out different deaf cultures. I believe that many deaf families or CODA can be related to the drama. We specially selected some clips to further introduce the unique culture of Deaf people and CODA to everyone. Once again, I sincerely recommend everyone to watch this TV series with CODA as the protagonist - "Twinkling Watermelon"!
CODA — Official Trailer | Apple TV+Gifted with a voice that her parents can’t hear, seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a CODA, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.Screenplay by Siân Heder.Directed by Siân Heder.
Dr. Chou Wah Shan, founder of Dreams Possible:
Since 2006, Dreams Possible has trained 300 life coaches and 600 volunteers, engaged in diversified social services, and gathered people who are determined to continue to grow and contribute to society to learn "mindfulness coaching" together, master the tips of self-coaching, and let themselves Become a source of creativity and help others help themselves. Our goal is to promote Mindful Coaching to every corner of society, so that more people can learn to "see themselves" and find their own inner value and strength, thereby igniting other lives. We first heal ourselves, let go of criticism and projection, and with pure compassion, appreciate life, touch life, and heal life. We train "mindfulness coaches" and practice Mindful Coaching Transformation, allowing us to systematically and continuously improve the relationship between ourselves and ourselves, ourselves and others, and ourselves and the world, benefit ourselves and others, and create a perfect life.
Coach to Serve is the mission of the DP community. We first learn to be our own life coaches, lead by example, and at the same time contribute to the world around us, demonstrating the value and beauty of life. As Gandhi said:
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Coach to Serve is to make yourself a life coach, learn professional skills and mental methods, and contribute to you, me and her.
We gather caring people, purify ourselves first, and then contribute to those around us. Charity starts at home. Through diversified social services, we will continue to introspect in the process of contributing to others, making pure contribution and teamwork a fast path to self-cultivation. This social service model of coaching others and self-coaching occurs simultaneously. After years of practice, it has been recognized by the Jockey Club Foundation, which sponsors us to provide high-quality coaching services to benefit more lives, promote self-coaching for all, and let everyone Become your own life coach and let the love flow.
Objectives
This is the latest course of
Dreams Possible. It allows us to learn hospice care, understand self-care, change our thoughts in the moment, and make good use of emotions.
Content
"Bridge of Gestures" 《手勢的橋樑》tells the story of three Hong Kong people who grew up in deaf families and traveled between the sound and silent worlds. They called themselves CODA, which means Children of the Deaf. In a society that often ignores and underestimates sign language, what can we learn from those who use it as a bridge to communicate? This documentary attempts to answer this question while hoping to raise awareness of sign language and deaf culture in Hong Kong.
Children of the Deaf Hong Kong
CODAHK "Gesture Bridge" documentary film charity screening [Free to attend]
June 15, 7pm to 9pm
There are Chinese, English and Hong Kong sign language interpreters on site.
Remark:
This event requires payment in advance, and the date must be made in advance. First come, first served. Institutions that sign up without paying may lose their spots. If you have paid but wish to fail to attend, no refund will be given unless there are special circumstances.
