what did we believe in: let morning shine

(arrow was drawn on to show the way)

(ariana introducing event, both photos credit of joycelyn sun)

let morning shine

i unfortunately have no photos of this event as a result of the fact that we had our own "professional" photographer documenting the entire process (preston hartwick)

the rundown was as follows:
3:00 everyone helping out gets there at and sets up. we all fold a lot of cards for selling, each packet had eight cards and featured one artist (all people we know from my old high school) and 8 of their pieces. we also set up the pieces for auction and prep the sound system and such. (i make a lot of posters.)
7:30 doors open and people all come filing in to look
7:40 (ish?) play LiNK awareness video and ariana introduces the night
7:50 everyone wanders around room, eating refreshments, buying cds, shirts and cards and bidding (or rather...viewing and not bidding) on pieces of art
8:30 (i think) suhail plays and sings a song for the people of north korea
8:45 begin national geographic documentary on north korea
9:30 everyone looks and wanders around room again after documentary ends
9:50 everyone has basically left except for us that are helping out and are friends that enjoy mingling and catching up
11:00 finally leave venue after packing up, give ourselves pats on backs

i would love for all of you to go now and check out LiNK (they also have a blog and a great resources section)
and maybe think about something you could do to help out



our let morning shine: SEEDS event proceeds all go to the bread project which feeds something like thousands of children everyday and SEEDS which is a LiNK project

i could write a million posts on this issue of north korea and what we can do to help. but i would prefer for you to genuinely be interested and seek out ways you can be involved.

"In the mid-1990s, over a million people died on the other side of the world, and hardly anybody noticed. Millions starved, hundreds of thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps, and tens of thousands crossed borders seeking food, money, protection and even freedom that they never knew existed. That place was, and continues to be, a land with virtually no freedoms - of speech, assembly, religion, movement and more.

This is North Korea, and very little has changed since then."

LiNK website

i hope to continue to be involved in this movement.

two and red headbands

hi jeanie. you're so cute. and we're pretty cute.
and it'd be nice if it wasn't blurry but such is photos.

(taken after our let morning shine: SEEDS event. red ribbons fashioned into decorating our hair.)

let morning shine

"Let Morning Shine! : SEEDS" is a charity event intended to bring awareness of the present situation in North Korea and to practically assist those in need.

The evening will feature a documentary filmed by a national geographic reporter and her camera crew, who were only able to film this by posing as nurses/doctor assistants to a Nepalese eye doctor visiting North Korea to heal 1000+ people of cataracts . There will also be live musical performances of some of the songs from the first-ever cd of music entirely written for the people of North Korea; a cd which was released in February, 2008 and which will be available during the evening. Finally, there will be an art auction with most of the artwork being created for the event by artists from Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Featured artists include students from Parsons School of Design in New York, as well as Eric Lafforgue, a professional, freelance photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications such as National Geographic, Lonely Planet, the Times, BBC, Reader's Digest, Blue Planet, and CNN Traveller.

Admission is free and is open to everyone.

7:30 pm, Sunday, June 28, 2009
ECC Ministry Centre
Unit 226, 2/F, Hankow Centre
5 Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui


The money made from the event will be donated to two projects:
1. a project coordinated by LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) called SEEDs. The money will aid North Korean refugee children in the specific areas of food, education, and shelter. The concept of this project, SEEDs, is to "invest in the younger generation" of North Korea, that they might be nurtured, grow up and be able to make a difference to benefit their home country.
2. a non-profit bread factory in North Korea that provides thousands of children in poverty with soybean milk and bread rolls everyday.



(a couple of my pieces will be auctioned at this event)

let morning shine
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what did we do: ap art

"independent" watercolor and ink 26" x 18" model: janice lee

i don't usually put my own work on my blog.

but here's some past ap art work completed in the fall of 07 during my senior year in high school in hk. i recently dug some up (took it off a shelf actually) in my room while "cleaning" (being nostalgic) and finding art to donate to my friend ariana's event "let morning shine" (more on it later) and photographed a few pieces.

"analytical" watercolor and ink 22" x 14" model: grace lyu



"flirt" 16 1/2" x 23 1/2" prismacolor pencil and ink model: marilyn li