Gay Games Hong Kong: Diversity Arts Festival

In 2022 Hong Kong will be welcoming an estimated 40,000 people-- visitors from all over the world coming to participate and show their support for Gay Games Hong Kong. There are a wide variety of sporting events, 36 to be exact, including for the first time ever in the history of the Gay Games: E-Sports, Dragon Boat Racing, Rugby Sevens and Dodgeball. But the Gay Games go beyond sports, within the rich history of the Gay Games you will find that it was founded for the purpose of spreading the message of diversity and acceptance. Key to meeting these goals is the cultural activities that are of utmost importance to spreading the message of diversity. And as the first Asian city to host the Gay Games, Hong Kong is in a unique position to promote and share it’s cultural heritage with the world! This is why the Diversity Arts Festival is major part of the Gay Games, and why so much hard work and thousands of volunteer hours are going into planning this vital celebration of the region's Arts and Culture.

The Diversity Arts Festival will be supported by two massive art exhibitions, Sunpride Foundation’s “Spectrosynthesis”, Asia’s largest touring LGBT+ contemporary art exhibition; and a new-media exhibition co-curated by Videotage, a Hong Kong-based non-profit promoter of video art. All exhibits will share in the ethos of diversity and inclusion.

"Sunpride Foundation is honoured to be part of Gay Games Hong Kong. We believe in the power of art and its ability to inspire and communicate, especially when the exhibition is hosted in public institutions and museums where we can reach out to the general public. During Gay Games 2022, we plan to collaborate with a public institution to organise an art exhibition that will address gender and LGBTQ issues.”

-Patrick Sun Kai-yit, founder of Sunpride and of its impressive art collection

Since its inception in San Francisco in 1982, the Gay Games has proudly had an arts section dedicated to spreading the message of diversity. And like the sporting contests, it is open to people of all sexual orientations. The Diversity Arts Festival offers opportunities for talented artists of all backgrounds to showcase Asia's cultural talents to the world. This is why there will be an abundance of cultural activities, including a planned 50+ performances (including daily performances at the games village), interactive digital pieces, memorials, satellite events in film, culture, spoken work, theatre, as well as choirs performing during the Gay Games’ opening ceremony at Hong Kong Stadium, and a memorial service that will feature sections of the Gay Games Memorial Quilt, made since 1990 to commemorate people who died of Aids.

So much planning to do and so little time! We urge you to contact us if you’d like to participate in the festival, help with volunteer work, or any other meaningful controbutions to making Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022 the best Gay Games ever!

For opportunities to be involved as a volunteer in Hong Kong 11 Gay Games 2022, please email us at joinus@gaygameshk2022.com

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Hong Kong is the first Asian city to host the Gay Games, the world’s biggest international sporting and cultural event for all, in 2022. Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2022 will be an empowering experience for LGBT+ athletes and supporters from across Asia, in addition to welcoming visitors from around the world, to participate in a variety of sporting and cultural events.

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