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Michelle Cheung | Paragon Tea Room—Tea for the open-minded
Michelle Cheung | Paragon Tea Room—Tea for the open-minded

Michelle Cheung is a prolific young business owner who is making waves in the Vancouver cafe scene. Her current endeavour: Paragon Tea Room, has just celebrated its 2nd anniversary, boasts a modest 4.8 stars on Google, and attracts guests from all over the Greater Vancouver area. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she never planned to have a career in Canada, but now that she’s cultivating a gateway for Vancouver to connect with Eastern tea traditions, she hopes she can make Hong Kong proud someday. Read on to discover her ambitions for Paragon and beyond.

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Career, Arts, Culture, Food, IdentityWe Are HKerstea, vancouver, canada, paragon, identityComment
Toda Nakataro | Director of ‘Chronicle’ animated music video–The mind and thoughts are our final fortress
Toda Nakataro | Director of ‘Chronicle’ animated music video–The mind and thoughts are our final fortress

Toda Nakataro is a young multimedia artist. This year they produced the music video for “Chronicle” by The Hertz, a local Hong Kong band, and received resounding positive feedback. Many viewers were impressed and surprised to see such high-calibre animations created in Hong Kong.

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Arts, Career, MusicWe Are HKersartist, multimedia, music, mv, music video, chronicle, The Hertz, art, freelance, freelancers, freelancerComment
【Video】Peter Chan│Reality is more absurd than a script. We won’t give up until our last breath
【Video】Peter Chan│Reality is more absurd than a script. We won’t give up until our last breath

Peter Chan is a Hong Kong actor with extensive experience. He was nominated for Best New Performer in the 13th Asian Film Awards and the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards. During the pandemic, he fell into deep despair which prompted self reflection: as an actor, can I do something for humanity?

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Video, Career, ArtsWe Are HKersscript, actor, act, theatre, movie, film, awards, nomination, performer, perform, television, media, actingComment
Dr Lucci Lugee Liyeung | Holding a scalpel by day and a paintbrush by night
Dr Lucci Lugee Liyeung | Holding a scalpel by day and a paintbrush by night

Dr Lucci Lugee Liyeung treats numerous orthopedics patients by day, but once she takes off her scrubs, she is an artist that gives life to many popular cartoon characters. When she talks about these characters, her eyes sparkle with excitement. She hopes that her creations will give Hongkongers positive energy during these difficult times.

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Arts, Education, Health, HobbiesWe Are HKershealth, doctor, artist, illustrator, art, illustration, cartoon, children, book, publish, Covid-19, covid-19, coronavirus, illness, education, animalsComment
Derek Chan | Writing Hong Kong from a distance -- yellow objects．黃 色 物 件
Derek Chan | Writing Hong Kong from a distance -- yellow objects．黃 色 物 件

Derek Chan 陳嘉昊 grew up in colonial Hong Kong, studied in Norway, and currently lives in Vancouver. He received his BFA in theatre performance from Simon Fraser University. A playwright, director, performer, translator, and producer, Derek has been co-artistic director of rice & beans theatre since 2010.

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Arts, Career, OverseasWe Are HKerswriting, writer, screenwriter, distance, norway, vancouver, canada, overseas, theatre, performer, performing, performance, playwright, director, translator, producer, rice and beans, speech, award, playComment
【Video】Leung Ming Kai + Kate Reilly | Fragmented, collective Hong Kong memories—a film on remembrance and loss
【Video】Leung Ming Kai + Kate Reilly | Fragmented, collective Hong Kong memories—a film on remembrance and loss

Leung Ming Kai is a Hong Kong director-cinematographer whose recent works include Murmur of the Hearts and Suk Suk. Kate Reilly is an American actor-producer, whose recent works include Therapy and The Path. Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down is the first film co-directed by the couple.

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Video, Arts, Culture, Entertainment, IdentityWe Are HKersleung ming kai, kate reilly, memories, memory, film, filmaker, movie, director, actor, entertainment, expat, foreigner, producer, videographer, American, photographerComment
【Video】Lee Kin Ming | Repairing, evolving and circulating Hong Kong fonts
【Video】Lee Kin Ming | Repairing, evolving and circulating Hong Kong fonts

Lee Kin Ming is the founder of ‘Li Hon’s street calligraphy conservation project’. He has worked in his father’s signage shop since young and has recently started to digitise Mr Lee Hon’s calligraphy and has started a crowdfund. He wrote the book Looking at Hong Kong’s Signage to record Hong Kong’s signage history.

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Video, Arts, Culture, HistoryWe Are HKerslee kin ming, fonts, typography, art, create, li hon, calligraphy, calligrapher, conservation, street, sign, signboard, design, designer, history, tradition, traditional, characters, chinese, language, mehporpor, zucchhi, crazy man, lazyass, just.production, sam, firefly, onehungrycoconut, jmComment
Benny Yuen | Founder of EARTH.er — Telling the story of this land with my heart
Benny Yuen | Founder of EARTH.er — Telling the story of this land with my heart

Benny is a designer living in Tai O. He has created an environmentally conscious fashion brand with a “Tai O/Hong Kong is our home” theme while being cognizant of environmental and social issues around the world.

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Career, Politics, Arts, Environment, FashionWe Are HKersbenny yuen, earth.er, founder, designer, art, design, artist, artists, arts, environment, fashion, brand, branding, tai o, home, social, issues, identity, self, unity, communityComment
【Video】Dare Media | Putting a price tag on publicity: Yell Card as a new form of collective expression
【Video】Dare Media | Putting a price tag on publicity: Yell Card as a new form of collective expression

Vivian and her partners founded Dare Media in August 2019. Her team’s project ‘Yell Card’ produces trading cards of protest-related artwork drawn by different designers, promoting the commercialization of political art and graphic designs. Aiming to support designers financially as well as produce trading cards for physical records of the protest movement, the new editions of Yell Card are...

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Career, Video, Politics, Arts, EntertainmentWe Are HKersvideos, nata, silver wolf, jhn, tina, jake, jenna, dare media, publicity, editorial, cards, print, media, artwork, protest, protests, protester, art, artist, arts, vivian, dark calligrapherComment
【Video】Calif Chong | Filmmaker—Creating a collective database and capturing the Hong Kong spirit
【Video】Calif Chong | Filmmaker—Creating a collective database and capturing the Hong Kong spirit

Calif Chong is a filmmaker currently based in the UK. She worked as a scriptwriter at TVB and a documentarian for RTHK. A few years ago, she began her studies in Europe and started her career in the film industry, with the aim of finding a new way to tell the story of Hong Kong.

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Career, Video, Entertainment, Overseas, Culture, Politics, ArtsWe Are HKerscalif chong, filmmaker, Hong Kong spirit, documentary, documentarian, tvb, rthk, uk, europe, film, industry, story, videos, movie, bruce lee, nata, silver wolfComment
【SHARED】Lee Kin Ming | Traditional signboard font washed away by time of turbulence
【SHARED】Lee Kin Ming | Traditional signboard font washed away by time of turbulence

“Cold and hot drinks”, “Marinated Vegetarian Meat”, “Signature Dish”, most signboards with street names and words about basic necessities of life are written by Mr. Li Hon. All the strokes of these handwritings are connected. This unique font is everywhere, however, the global pandemic shatters Hong Kong’s economy, no one can be spared...

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Career, Shared Article, Culture, ArtsWe Are HKershk feature, lee kin ming, calligraphy, traditional, signboard, writing, chinese, writer, art, fundraise, business, skillComment
【Video】Retroll Hip Hop | The Sequel Of ‘Under Mountain’—The Hardships Of Reaching A Utopian City
【Video】Retroll Hip Hop | The Sequel Of ‘Under Mountain’—The Hardships Of Reaching A Utopian City

Retroll Hip Hop is a new local hip hop group. They performed the song 'Under Mountain' on TV and garnered publicity. The song is based on brotherhood and hopes to use feelings of utopia to heal Hongkongers’ souls. ‘Upper Mountain’, the sequel to 'Under Mountain' portrays the hardships involved in achieving a utopian city. In reality, given Hong Kong’s societal environment, the music system needs..

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Culture, Video, Arts, Entertainment, Music, PoliticsWe Are HKersretroll hip hop, under mountain, utopia, performance, performing, TV, entertainment, music, revolution, jweezy, heartgrey, angus the beef, higgo raj, hardships, snowyeok, yellow umbrella, just.production, hkers normal, wujai, mvComment
【Video】Ghost and John | Exploring the Hongkonger identity through physical creativity
【Video】Ghost and John | Exploring the Hongkonger identity through physical creativity

The modern art duo Ghost and John are from Hong Kong. As graduates of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), they travelled to London to study contemporary dance after working for a few years. Their production fuses elements of physical motion, multimedia, and technology to create thought-provoking interaction. Through art, they explore themes of freedom and society as well as the Hongkonger identity.

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Culture, Video, Identity, ArtsWe Are HKersghost, john, identity, performance, hkust, london, dance, art, arts, mehporpor, gdfts, video, silver wolf, crazy manComment
【VIDEO】Badiucao | One of China’s most prolific political cartoonist - "This is not just about Hong Kong. This is a fight for all of us."
【VIDEO】Badiucao | One of China’s most prolific political cartoonist - "This is not just about Hong Kong. This is a fight for all of us."

I think art can be a way of healing people, to make people stronger, to empower people and to help them through this difficulty. During this movement, there is new creative art emerging, new songs being released. It all makes me want to create art to promote the spirit within these protests. Hong Kong gives me the most inspiration in my life.

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Politics, Video, Overseas, ArtsWe Are HKersbadiucao, artist, yellow shy guy, joyce leung, binlo photography, hk way, china, london, australia, cartoonist, human rights, overseasComment
Candy Choi | Founder of an art organisation - “As well as donating money, I want to tell Hongkongers, by taking action, that we stand with them in solidarity.”
Candy Choi | Founder of an art organisation - “As well as donating money, I want to tell Hongkongers, by taking action, that we stand with them in solidarity.”

This is not the Hong Kong I know. I had been depressed for a long time. Every night, I need to meditate for an hour before being able to go to sleep. We all need to work together to fight for the freedom of speech: a universal value which we all embrace.

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Politics, Overseas, ArtsWe Are HKerscandy choi, lui, art, organisation, founder, amsterdam, yuen long, fashion, design, incident, overseasComment