Getting the Lunar New Year off with a Bang!
This is how we get the Lunar New Year off with a bang! May the Year of the Snake bring you luck, good health, adventure, creativity and happiness!
Author: RTHK's Miss Adventure 香港電台冒險小姐
MISS ADVENTURE, aka Sadie Kaye, is a Hong Kong writer and performer. She makes quirky little podcasts, offbeat docs and humorous slots for RTHK Radio 3 and some other places. Follow RTHK's Miss Adventure 香港電台冒險小姐 for news of her latest projects, podcasts, teasers, columns and the odd musing...
Action!
Another action-packed (and themed) edition of The Apostrophe (Issue 7) has dropped on Substack! It can also be read and downloaded as a pdf here!
This one features incredible photography by Anthony Roussel (cover artist) and Philippe Joly, and spectacular art by Julien Pantz. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Submissions for our next issue on the theme of ‘Character’ are open now!
Moody Weather
My piece suggesting strategies for alleviating the mental health impact of climate change was published a couple of weeks ago! Thanks to editor Jessica Chen. 🙏
Transference clears 26M Views!
Like a champion racehorse that won’t stop running, Transference has surpassed another incredible milestone! It has been viewed over 26 million times on YouTube (it was featured by the Times for having ‘gone viral‘ after chalking up half this amount.) Even though the film is free on YouTube, we can’t wait to see it on the big screen again in a celebration screening at Sanctum Soho and to see where our follow up film To Love A Narcissist takes us in 2025! Happy NY!
Ha Ha Happy New Year!
Wishing you an exciting new chapter in 2025! Just as I thought 2024 had no more tricks in its bag, this happens: https://www.comedywomeninprint.co.uk/flash-your-fiction-winner 🩷
Poof! Blown away! Thank you so much CWIP! HA HA HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 🍾 🥂
Toxic Love
Contro Vento is committed to mental health 365 days a year (not just on World Mental Health Day). As with Transference, our goal with To Love A Narcissist is to create a platform for those affected by the issues the film portrays to connect and access support. We’ve been connecting with all kinds of people in the mental health community to help us tell the story of To Love A Narcissist in the most authentic way we can.
Hear coach Sara Davison‘s podcast with Contro Vento founder and To Love A Narcissist director Raffaello Degruttola on toxic love here! Sara has been an amazing support to Contro Vento through ‘To Love A Narcissist’ and has set up a free narcissistic abuse online support group you can join from anywhere in the world!
https://www.saradavison.com/coaching/dealing-with-a-narcissist/
Contro Vento in Sanctum
Post-production of To Love A Narcissist is complete. Our latest trailer is out. Private screenings are happening. Most Americans love a narcissist.
Contro Vento hosted two private screenings of To Love A Narcissist in one day at the Sanctum, Soho, London, 9 Dec! We feel incredibly lucky to have had an opportunity to screen our film at such an iconic venue! Unfortunately, we won’t be doing any public screenings while we await to learn our fate from festivals. Hopefully we’ll have some good news to share soon!
http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/to-love-a-narcissist
TLAN @ British Council Films
The British Council have added To Love A Narcissist to their database of UK films and our amazing editors Charlie Lort-Phillips and Spoon (Richard Spooner) have remastered our official trailer!
https://www.controventofilms.com/to-love-a-narcissist
https://filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org/projects/to-love-a-narcissist
Find Me in the Reflection Room on RTHK Radio 3!
Find me in the Reflection Room in this World Mental Health Day episode of Brunch with Noreen on RTHK Radio 3 where Noz and I are chatting Bipolar Hong Kong and I share a poem dedicated to all the companies all over the world that care about mental health on World Mental Health Day and not quite so much the other 364 days of the year…
The poem was one of a bunch I read at Mind HK‘s Poetry, Stories and Mental Health event at the 2024 Hong Kong Lit Fest in March. Please support mental health in the workplace every day! 💜
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/brunchwithnoreen/episode/981058
Here and Now at the 3812 Gallery!
Thanks to Mind HK and Mindset for creating an opportunity for Mind HK ambassadors to share our stories and photography at the ‘Here and Now’ exhibition at the 3812 Gallery in August! The exhibition connected our mental health recovery stories to our photographs of places in Hong Kong that inspired a turning point.
The event was a collaboration with lovely local artist Erin Hung (pictured below) whose collection of bold posters were inspired by our stories and highlight of the event! Look out for Erin’s posters on the MTR! Better still, take a snap and tag #MindHongKong and #MTAL (More Than A Label) on Insta to spread positive messages about mental health in Hong Kong! 🙏🏼
Thanks soooooo much to Mind HK’s Vicki T’Sang for making and sending me this reel of exhibition goers viewing my contribution to the exhibition! 🫶🏼 To read what they’re reading, click here!
https://www.mind.org.hk/ambassador-stories/sadie/hereandnow-the-c-word/