Art Public Welfare -- Fantasia·Journey for Love
“Fantasia·Journey for Love” was initiated by Fantasia Holdings Group Co., Ltd in 2006. As a large art public welfare activity, it intends to cooperate with one famous artist annually and achieve “Happiness” through art creation and exchange to dedicate itself to social culture public welfare undertaking.
Starting with photographer Zuo Li, children's art educator Wu Xiaoyan, musician He Muyang, sculptor Jiang Jie, pioneer drama director Miss Cao Kefei to food writer Shu Qiao, many chief executors present art from common life experience higher than that of life to, based on human senses, record happiness in various ages in photography, painting, music, sculpture, modern drama and documentary, etc.
In 2013, with the establishment of Shenzhen Fantasia Public Welfare Foundation, its art public welfare project “Fantasia·Journey for Love” held a contest of collection of public welfare works dealing with experiencing space design to encourage young designers creating better works. At the same year, the 7th “Fantasia·Journey for Love” paid attention to life of the aged, based on the theme “design for parents” , collected space design and creative items suitable for the aged from college students and young designers and invited famous specialist of building “Quality of Life” at home and abroad to make evaluation.
The contest had obtained extensive public’s concerns and involvement since its launch. Its advertising video Design for Love had been browsed on internet by 30,000,000 people. Also, the contest, reported by domestic and oversea media repeatedly, had attracted over 900 young designers and students from near 60 universities and design offices worldwide with more than 1150 works and more than 130,000 people for public vote. On April 17, 2014, the jury constituted by public welfare contest specialists evaluated and selected relevant awards including cash prize that reaches up to RMB 100,000. In the future, the host will cooperate with agencies of “Quality of Life” such as “Healthy” and “Futai Year” to help award-winners apply for patents and support commercial advertising and application of their works to bring true happiness and benefit for the aged.
In 2014, “Fantasia·Journey for Love” will change its theme into “Design for Unattended Children”, focus on their physical and mental problems to help and design for them, arise public’s care and establish a public welfare platform for rural education and rural children.
Time | Chief Execution Groups | Main Achievements |
Executors | Contents |
2006 | Zuo Li (Photographer) | Photographic research trip | Photographic exhibition/documentary |
2007 | Wu Xiaoyan (Children's Art Education) | Painting research trip | Painting (Presenting Gift in the Hongkong Contact and Exchange Meeting) |
2008 | He Muyang (Musician) | Music research trip | The creation of Happy Suite (the theme song of Fantasia’s culture) |
2009-10 | Jiang Jie (Sculptor) | Literary celebrity interviews | Solo exhibition of “pink Utopia” |
2010-11 | Cao Kefei (Drama Artist) | Community interviews and research trip | Performance of crossover space happy drama Look, Tugelizi |
2012-April, 2013 | Shu Qiao (Food Writer) | Yueshi-- manual food interview | Yueshi China documentaries (3 episodes)/book |
October 2013-June 2014 | Public | Space design suitable for the aged | Participating works of space design suitable for the aged and their exhibition |