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Artist talk Thu June 15, 2023 at 6pm

I’ll be doing an artist talk as part of the programming for the Carve Wind Chase exhibition. Carving Identity: (un)Making Myths & Monsters Thur June 15, 2023 6-7pm Mary E. Black Gallery, 1061 Marginal Road, Halifax Who are we inside,… Continue reading

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Wood shop residency at the Centre for Craft

I’m in the last week of my airCRAFT residency at the Centre for Craft, where I’ve had a bench in the wood shop since mid-September. The months have flown by! Here’s a snapshot with the other two residents, Ivan Flores… Continue reading

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Icehotel Sweden – High Score

We’re doing our third art suite for Icehotel Sweden – can’t wait to see old friends again with the adrenaline rush of sculpting ice and snow 200km north of the Arctic Circle! High Score Enter the time-space continuum of High… Continue reading

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ELEKTROSHIBAI: picture storymobile

New video up on our YouTube channel… an introduction to a new community art project called Elektroshibai, which is transported by our Elektrokatze bicycle. Elektroshibai is based on kamishibai (紙芝居), a form of street theatre from Japan using paper picture… Continue reading

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MFA Thesis Show: Portal

Portal  |  Sonia Chow  exploring access, storytelling, dreams Interdisciplinary artist / designer Sonia Chow interrogates communication and codes, identity, tactile materials and processes.  This installation sets the entry point for a series of ambiguous moments.  Is this scene situated in… Continue reading

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Branding and Entrepreneurship in Hospitality

Huschang was invited to give a lecture on Entrepreneurship within the Hospitality Sector to the communities of Chinese Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China) and Brand University for Applied Science (Hamburg, Germany). This online talk took place on November 18, in English… Continue reading

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The Goddess Project

Sonia’s work is being featured in a group show at Gallery 21 in Norfolk, Virginia. The Goddess Project is a diverse collection of art by 20 women, featuring a wide variety of art media, including painting, photography, sculpture, mosaic, textiles… Continue reading

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Nocturne Halifax 2019

Back in March, Sonia joined the Nocturne: Art at Night team as Director-at-Large. Nocturne is Halifax’s biggest annual art event, bringing art to the streets since 2008. Kick-off party for this year’s event: Thursday, October 17, 2019 Main event: Saturday,… Continue reading

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CBC Arts

We’ve been featured on CBC Arts – The Exhibitionists series. Shot on the last few days of work on our new art suite, The Tao of Cat, at ICEHOTEL Sweden. Shot by Mattias Löw with sound by Reshma Mansuri Löw.… Continue reading

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Cat’s Cradle in Canadian news: The Chronicle Herald

We’re pleased to have received more coverage from Canada – this time from The Chronicle Herald, Canada’s largest independently-owned newspaper. It’s based in Halifax, which is also home of NSCAD where I did my design degree. Happy to have Haligonian… Continue reading

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Education and Public Speaking

We believe in sharing knowledge. In addition to organizing the PechaKucha Night series for Hong Kong, we look for ways to help the next generation of thinkers and creators. Here are some of the universities and design organizations who have… Continue reading

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Cat’s Cradle in Canadian news: The Globe and Mail

We’ve been picked up by the Canadian press! Online in the Design section of Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail – my go-to print publication when I’m home. Thank you Gayle MacDonald, for the interview! >> The Globe and… Continue reading

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Cat‘s Cradle: The Making of an Art Suite for ICEHOTEL Sweden

Our first video is up on our new YouTube channel! In December 2016, we built an art suite for ICEHOTEL Sweden, in Jukkasjärvi – a cool 200km north of the Arctic Circle. Take a peek behind the scenes at 14… Continue reading

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PechaKucha Night HK Vol 26 – Look who’s talking

Mark it down! >> PechaKucha Night Hong Kong: Tuesday, December 1, 8-10pm, in collaboration with deTour 2015 at PMQ. >> RSVP on the Facebook event page Alberto Cipriani, Associate at RAD Ltd. (Research Architecture Design), will present a building renovation… Continue reading

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On the radio…

PechaKucha Night Hong Kong meets Swedish Design tomorrow night in collaboration with Detour at PMQ! RTHK Radio 3’s Thomas Latter interviewed Sonia in a segment for Around Town. Listen here for a refresher on what PechaKucha Night is, how it… Continue reading

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TONIGHT’S PECHAKUCHA POSTPONED

In light of current events with the protests, tonight’s PechaKucha Night will be postponed. It really feels wrong to hold a PechaKucha Night Hong Kong while Hong Kong is going through one of the biggest moments in its history. Sincerest… Continue reading

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Ming Pao Weekly coverage

Another case of ‘better late than never’… Along with the other speakers, we were interviewed by Ming Pao Weekly during the HKDA Gold Winner’s Seminar Series. The article was published in the HK edition on May 24.

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TDC Tokyo

ELEKTROKATZE has been ‘selected as one of the works deemed “Excellent”’ and will be published in Tokyo TDC, Vol. 25 – The Best in International Typography & Design, in the category of Mark & Logotype / Corporate Stationery / Branding.… Continue reading

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More GDA Gold news…

A bit delayed with this post – but better late than never! As part of the GDA Gold Award Winners Seminar Series, we were pleased to speak at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre on May 10 with the… Continue reading

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GDA2013 Exhibition

Winning entries from the Global Design Awards 2013 competition are on exhibit until April 6 at Telford Plaza 1 (Kowloon Bay) and Popcorn (Tseung Kwan O). >> Exhibition details * Images courtesy of HKDA

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Gold

Happy and honoured to share the news that ELEKTROKATZE took home three awards at the Hong Kong Designers Association’s Global Design Awards 2013 ceremony last week! ELEKTROKATZE won Gold, HK Best, and Judge’s Choice Award (selected by Chiaki Murata from… Continue reading

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Where You Going? book launch

ChowPourianLab was interviewed by Jamie Winder and Iain Hector for their new book, Where You Going? Design Adventures in Southeast Asia, published by Basheer Graphic Books. There will be a book launch on August 7 in Singapore. Drop by if… Continue reading

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PechaKucha Night HK in LOFT Magazine

LOFT magazine, Spring 2013. Written by Catherine Shaw, photographs by Cheehaur Tan, Vic Shing (Art Surveillance), and Sean Creamer. Thanks for the coverage! >> LOFT Magazine

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PechaKucha Night HK – Chinese poster

Working toward bilingual communications… So far all but one of our presentations have been in English, but Cantonese presentations are welcome!

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UNESCO FISS: Cultural Development & Sustainability, part 2

A couple of snaps from yesterday’s event. It’s interesting to hear what others think about the state of HK culture and the West Kowloon Cultural District. Very happy to have been part of the discussion, and am looking forward to… Continue reading

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