Art Hope speech 2012 and blog photos

Good evening Ladies and Gentleman , guests, friends and family - welcome to the Art Hope Project 2012 BE exhibition and fundraiser for Kids4Kids.

We are delighted to have with us tonight Mr Daniel Chun - Ex Director of kids4kids and our 7 out of our 10 creative individuals who are featured in the BE exhibition. Of course, we would not be here without the founding artist, driving force and inspiration for the Art Hope project Ms Carole Leung and the team of minds and hands who put ideas into action - let me quickly introduce the Art Hope team!

We have Wilda Fong our photographer who took all those stunning photos which stand by each painting (there's more) ; Chris Lee our graphic designer who created our e-invite and flyer for tonight's event; and myself HoYan Leung (no Carole and I  are not related but we've know each other since primary school). I look after all of PR & Marketing so it's no surprise I am also the MC for tonight! 

May I ask you all to give yourself a round of applause - for without your support and time and generosity tonight we would not be able to accomplish our final goal -
Which is to have this fundraiser party!!

I must also thank the venue Hyde and their sponsorship as 50% of all proceeds during these two hours from the bar will be donated to our Charity - Kids4kids!!

I hope you will all have chance to take a look at all the paintings created by Carole tonight. They are a result of 12 months of hard working weekends involving planning to painting; and photo shoots, video interviews and alot of collaborative efforts by everyone involved. 

We have prepared a short video to show highlights from our interviews and most of all we hope this video will give our audience a greater understanding and background about the 10 paintings and the Art Hope project message - to be who you are!! I'll let Carole tell u more about that later - so lets check out the video first! Thanks again and enjoy the show!

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