Message Corals Workshop

Join Fanny for Message Corals, a hands-on creative workshop. Create your own coral-inspired artwork that turns into a reef of memories.

Exhibition Activities:

Message Corals Workshop

Sunday, December 6, 2026 · 2-4 PM (register)

Sea & Mind Listening Practice with Artist

Sunday, December 6, 2026 · 11 AM & 3 PM (free)

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 · 11 AM & 3 PM (free)

Exhibition Period

December 5/6/8th, 2026 · 10:00 AM–4:30 PM

Closed Monday

Free Admission

Location: Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 2nd Floor
555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, BC
Elevator access available

Coral Words & Coastal Stories Workshop

Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in a free workshop throughout the exhibition.

Participants create small tactile coral forms using air-dry clay to form words, symbols, Braille, or multilingual text inspired by their relationships with Vancouver.

Together, these contributions gradually transform the central sculptural map into a living artwork that reflects the diverse voices, histories, and waters that shape the Vancouver community.

Instead of treating it as a "map," treat it as a living shoreline.

Over the course of the exhibition, visitors would gradually transform that empty water into a network of stories by drawing routes directly on the acrylic with removable paint markers or grease pencils and attaching their clay coral forms to the shoreline.

By the final day, the once-minimal map would no longer be your drawing—it would be the community's. The accumulation of routes, memories, and coral forms would become a visual record of shared experience. This evolution from emptiness to collective memory reflects both the Buddhist principle of interdependence and my ongoing exploration of migration, ecology, and belonging.

About Artist Fanny Bok Yin Tang

Fanny Bok Yin Tang (鄧博賢) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist. Born on Nauru in the Pacific, raised in Hong Kong, educated in Canada and China, and now based in Richmond, Tang creates work shaped by movement across oceans, cultures, and languages. Her practice explores migration, memory, belonging, environmental changes, and the relationship between the natural world and inner peace.

Sea & Mind is Tang’s first multisensory installation. Through moving images, sound, scent, touch, and opportunities to participate, visitors are invited to experience the ocean as both a passage and a living archive of memory and change.

Guided by Buddhist mindfulness practice, Tang brings deep listening to the sea into conversation with awareness of the mind. This new direction is a creative exploration of how the ocean can shift between the real and the imagined—and an invitation to pause, listen, and discover our inner stillness.