A Few Words from the Curator
HULU Culture, following the immense success of its event "Heritage X Arts X Design Wal" (H.A.D. Walk) for the Central and Sheung Wan districts, held last year at the Former Married Police Quarters on Hollywood Road, drawing in excess of 40,000 visitors, is again offering the H.A.D. Walk for a second year. This time, the event is moved to the Sham Shui Po district, with the main venue at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, and named "Hong Kong Jockey Club H.A.D. Walk Project – Sham Shui Po Creativity & Arts For All".
The Concept behind the "Heritage X Arts X Design Walk" Project
Due to the rapid pace of urban development, we realize the urgency for the heritage and conservation of traditional culture and the local spirit. HULU Culture starts from the community’s special characteristics, and through a series of community education, creative designs, guided tours and interactive activities, we invite the public and visitors to really enter into the community. From learning the district’s history, architecture, old shops and local customs, the visitors will be encouraged to take part and to promote the conservation of local history and culture and to take up the inheritance. In addition, through contacting the many organisations, a platform is built for the interaction and cooperation within the community and with those agencies outside, to actively utilise, spread, and develop the "social capital" of the district. The districts’ creative organic elements are tapped, to allow business and creative cultural activities to be balanced, maintaining a sustainable development.

Sham Shui Po – "Creativity & Arts For All"
There is a special purpose for selecting Sham Shui Po and Shek Kip Mei as the focus of this event. All along, Sham Shui Po has been viewed by outsiders as a grass-roots and complicated community. Day by night, visitors and residents create a city rhythm; compared to other districts, traditional old shops can still be easily found here, and urban noises make a big racket. A unique blend of "sounds, colours, fragrances and tastes" has formed the many touching human stories and local sceneries here, to let Sham Shui Po be different from other communities, especially in its bringing out a diverse and tolerant culture, a human touch which is unique.
On the other hand, Shek Kip Mei has often been ignored by people. Looking up its history, one finds that the 1953 fire disaster of the squatters here changed the fate of Hong Kong people – an important step in the development of public housing in Hong Kong was made. Subsequently, in Shek Kip Mei boomed the cottage factory industries, creating the golden age for Hong Kong industries in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Unforgettable imageries include a whole family, old and young, sitting down after dinner to do outsourced factory handiwork, stringing together plastic flowers or affixing small beads and glittering scales... these all reflect the people’s spirit, struggling for survival under adverse conditions, not afraid of hardships and never bowing down. This "Hong Kong Spirit" of perseverance has laid a very important foundation for Hong Kong’s subsequent economic take-off, prosperity and stability.

The Promotion of Creative Industries
With social development, economic restructuring, and Hong Kong’s manufacturing industries moving north of the border, creative industries gained more and more attention. In the 2009 Policy Address, the Chief Executive announced six industries to be Hong Kong’s economy pillars, and creative industry was one of them. The main exhibition venue for "Creativity & Arts For All" is the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, an old factory building which has undergone revitalisation. Having the H.A.D. Walk on these premises has its special significance. We hope to promote the younger generation to be in touch with the community, from caring, knowing, to understanding why the community and creativity cannot be separated, and to be proud of their local culture. Therefore we have entitled an exhibition here as "Made in Hong Kong", to have a collection of Hong Kong products, such as plastic and ceramic products, clocks and watches, toys, etc. The manufacturing of these items had fed many Hong Kong people in the past. Another exhibition "Memory Factory" reproduces the cottage factory of that era, and pays tribute to the factories owners and workers who had contributed to Hong Kong industrial development.

iTour
To allow visitors to be able to have a deeper understanding of Sham Shui Po, HULU Culture also developed the first such "app" in Hong Kong, the "Sham Shui Po Cultural iTour", aiming to combine a new technology platform with traditional elements, so that visitors may use tablet computer and obtain multimedia information on their guided tours, and be able to see the community’s past and present appearances, with histories of buildings and streets, old shops and old photographs. We hope that the event will attract audiences to participate and at the same time we wish to give support and encouragement for the younger generation to join in the creative industries. Here, we thank The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust for its generous support, donating close to four million Hong Kong dollars to sponsor the ten-month poject of "Hong Kong Jockey Club H.A.D. Walk Project – Sham Shui Po Creativity & Arts For All". We thank the shops and residents of old Sham Shui Po for their cooperation, and the universities and students for their participation. We also thank our partners, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre for their support.

Iman Fok, Simon Go
Chief Curator