Changemaker Community Series: BYOB & Paint with Women Changemakers

A safe place for women changemakers (and aspiring women changemakers) to meet one another;

A small-scale gathering where you can actually have intentional conversations with everyone;

A community you show up and participate equally as an agent of change;

A space to exchange stories and find inspirations to bring collective impact;

A tribe you can come back to every month as your support network and build authentic friendship.

This is what this gathering is about. For women changemakers.

Sometimes - for me, it’s most of the time - we feel overwhelmed by how vast and complicated the global climate issue is and don’t even know what our role is, where to start, or who to collaborate with. I feel you. In our September gathering, we are cohosting with Clarissa and Miki of Women and Climate and bringing 15 women changemakers who care for climate together. There will be no formal panel or presentation - let’s have a chat on a Sunday afternoon over a glass of wine and a paint brush!

We are inviting you to bring your own bottle (alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink) or snacks to join the art jamming session with us on Sep 29 Sunday 3pm in Dream Impact @Lai Chi Kok. It will be a collaborative art jamming, and collaborative discussion about climate action.

What is Changemaker Community Series?

The idea of the Changemaker Community Shoulderies started when Dorothy (Dream Impact) and Carmen (Girls Be Change) met last year, questioning and envisioning what an ideal community is and why we need to gather (so desperately). We need a safe place among women changemakers to have organic meetups, intentional conversations and idea exchange with social ease, find inspirations and encouragement from each other, and build authentic friendships and support networks. It is a gathering where everyone shows up as an equal participant, questioning and chatting. No panel. No presentation. No speech. Just intentional conversations.

About Women and Climate

The Women and Climate community provides a joyful and safe space for women and nonbinary professionals from around the world to learn and talk about climate.

No climate experience necessary.

This gathering is open only to women/womxn changemakers (and aspiring women/womxn changemakers).

Fee: Free for ESG Innovation Lab Members or Dream Impact Partner/ HKD50 non-members

Ticket includes: Entry to the event, art supplies and one small canvas (Please bring your own drinks or snacks)

Language: Mainly English

Tickets are non-refundable.

Co-organizers:

Carmen Chan | Girls Be Change

Carmen is a people-driven entrepreneur. Since the age of 25, she has been running her own ventures, including her namesake jewelry brand, Carmen Chan Jewelry; creative agency, Studio C; and lately, her new social business, Girls Be Change.

Carmen Chan Jewelry celebrates the beauty of imperfection through jewelry and accessory design. Carmen was awarded as the finalist of Lane Crawford Calling Out For the Next New 2015 and highlighted in Facebook #SheMeansBusiness in 2016. Studio C is a creative agency that provides public relations, marketing, and design services with clients from a variety of backgrounds, including Taylor Swift, Marriott International, Hang Lung Properties, Hong Kong Design Centre, Affordable Art Fair, The University of Hong Kong and more.

Girls Be Change is a social business that enables and empowers girls and women to be changemakers and explorers of their worlds. Carmen spent years understanding the pain points and struggles of underserved women and refugees from East Africa and Southeast Asia, and finally decided to transform her expertise in problem solving throughout her journey of entrepreneurship into this new venture with the goal to eradicate gender inequality collectively.

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Dorothy Lam | Dream Impact, ESG Innovation Lab

With a multi-dimensional background and experience in emerging technology, social innovation and arts in New York City, Hong Kong, Berlin & Abu Dhabi, Dorothy integrates various disciplines of wellness, resilience and innovation of how businesses can integrate community-driven and human-centric solutions to solve today’s pressing social issues. Having successfully built a network of 160+ social startups, NGOs, universities, impact investors and corporates to work on cross-sector collaborations, through a co-working and events collaboration hub, ESG & impact solutions advisory, and impact capital services. Dream Impact is the leading impact ecosystem builder in Hong Kong.

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Co-host:

Clarissa Tam | Women and Climate

Clarissa is a brand strategist, art curator, City Lead for grassroots community Women and Climate, and an amateur rooftop gardener. She is passionate about cultivating greater care and connection with the natural world with all her available skills and tools!

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Miki Limbu | Women and Climate

Miki is a writer, editor, and marketer by profession. As one of the City Leads in Women and Climate HK, she is passionate about climate change, eco-consciousness and doing more good for the planet. She believes that each small action makes a difference!

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Host or Publisher Dream Impact, Girls Be Change