{"id":93746,"date":"2026-10-17T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93746"},"modified":"2026-10-17T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:10:10","slug":"a-missionarys-stories-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-live-on-at-a-new-exhibition-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93746","title":{"rendered":"A missionary\u2019s stories of the Kowloon Walled City live on at a new exhibition in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/16\/6f69a229-4fa4-4dc8-b197-6a0a0f1781ad_a3d50b82.jpg?itok=wOZpTt1e&amp;v=1792143860\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">St Stephen\u2019s Society looks more like a contemporary art gallery than a rehabilitation facility. At the non-profit Christian charity\u2019s compound in Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories, there are corridors lined with sketches, canvases and photography and a wall of art supplies.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Founder <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Jacqueline \u201cJackie\u201d Pullinger<\/span>, a British missionary now in her eighties, proudly looks at the artwork created by its residents. A selection will be showcased at the upcoming exhibition \u201c285 and Counting\u2026\u201d, named for the number of spaces across Hong Kong the charity has used to provide shelter, at Central Market from October 18 to 21.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEverybody else considers them failures,\u201d Pullinger says, \u201cbut I believe they are the future of Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Some of the featured artists are former school dropouts, while most are in recovery from <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">substance addiction<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3371165\/missionarys-stories-kowloon-walled-city-live-new-exhibition-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Stephen\u2019s Society looks more like a contemporary art gallery than a rehabilitation facility. At the non-profit Christian charity\u2019s compound in Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[540,5730,3569,5231,18589,2204,31840,1726,18590],"class_list":["post-93746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-city","tag-exhibition","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-kowloon","tag-live","tag-missionarys","tag-stories","tag-walled","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}