{"id":4130,"date":"2023-04-11T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/hong-kongs-m-museum-offers-free-tickets-to-students-for-mental-health-benefits\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T02:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:00:54","slug":"hong-kongs-m-museum-offers-free-tickets-to-students-for-mental-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/hong-kongs-m-museum-offers-free-tickets-to-students-for-mental-health-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s M+ museum offers free tickets to students for mental health benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Hong Kong\u2019s M+ museum is offering 10,000 free tickets to students for its Yayoi Kusama exhibition to help boost mental health. <\/p>\n<p>The scheme is aiming to help students talk about their mental health by viewing the works of artist Yayoi Kusama, who has expressed her own challenges through art.<\/p>\n<p>Keri Ryan, lead curator for learning and interpretation at M+, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3216313\/m-museum-offer-10000-free-tickets-hong-kong-students-its-yayoi-kusama-exhibition-boost-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South China Morning Post<\/a>: \u201cParticularly in the post-pandemic moments where people are looking for connection, something tangible, there is something to be said for the process of going to a museum.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn art museum does it well. It gives you the opportunity to slow down. I believe in the idea of slow looking, spending a long time looking at something.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"shortcode-ad-holder within-content\">\n<div class=\"single-square-ad\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/adverts\/3d-digital-venue-march23\/\" class=\"ad-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"square-banner\" src=\" https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3DDV-500x700-1.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-wide-ad\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/adverts\/3d-digital-venue-march23\/\" class=\"ad-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wide-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/04\/11\/hong-kongs-m-museum-offers-free-tickets-to-students-for-mental-health-benefits\/\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The museum has also partnered with \u2018Shall We Talk\u2019, an initiative from the government\u2019s advisory committee on mental health, to launch \u2018Shall We Talk at M+\u2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The programme will give away 10,000 admission tickets to the \u2018Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now\u2019 exhibit to students from local tertiary institutions, including universities and higher education establishments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ryan added: \u201cWe are not therapists, we can\u2019t necessarily help anyone in that sense, but we can help you to connect your own emotional expression to what you are experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can help people feel more comfortable expressing themselves through making art or walking through the exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will also be art workshops that have been created in partnership with Hong Kong University\u2019s Centre on Behavioural Health, and will encourage students to create art themselves using Kusama as an inspiration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Throughout her life, Kusama has communicated her mental health challenges through her art.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/04\/11\/hong-kongs-m-museum-offers-free-tickets-to-students-for-mental-health-benefits\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Hong Kong\u2019s M+ museum is offering 10,000 free tickets to students for its Yayoi Kusama exhibition to help boost mental health. The scheme is aiming to help students talk about their mental health by viewing the works of artist Yayoi Kusama, who has expressed her own challenges through art. 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