I promise to...

Thank you Hong Kong for submitting your good deeds! These deeds are now included on the bottom of 1,000 hand painted ceramic One Bowl, One Promise bowls created especially for the Jockey Club Community Arts Biennale 2015 by one of the few remaining Canton porcelain painters in Hong Kong, Mrs Lam of Chiu Kee Porcelain on Peng Chau.

Want one? Just come along to our exhibition at ArtisTree, pledge to fulfill the deed and the bowl is yours to take home! Only a limited number are given out each day though, first-come, first served. And don’t forget to share your promise stories and challenge others to take on the good deed too!

Jockey Club Community Arts Biennale 2015
ArtisTree, 1/F Cornwall House, Taikoo Place
4 - 24 July, 10am - 8pm

A selection of promises suggested by the community: 

• Walk the streets with your parents hand in hand
• Eat with your grandparents more frequently
• Give your father a ten-second kiss
• Help an elderly person cross the street
• Hug a stranger
• Hold the lift for someone
• Help a stranger with their bus fare
• Buy a lunchbox for the homeless
• Smile at three strangers
• Fold a paper heart for a loved one
• Organise a gathering for your primary school friends
• Smile and say good morning to your security guards
• Smile and say thank you to a cleaning lady
• Smile and greet a stranger
• Volunteer for a few hours for a charity
• Visit a friend who is ill
• Help a stranger find their way
• For one whole day, smile at everyone you meet
• Lend a book to a friend
• Hold the lift for someone carrying something heavy
• Help a neighbour sweep their doorstep
• Call a friend you haven't spoken to for a while
• Buy flowers for a friend
• Bake a cake for a friend
• Write a letter or postcard to your family
• Call your parents and tell them that you miss them
• Help a blind person cross the road
• Say "I Love You" to your parents
• Support someone who is facing difficulties
• Open the door for an elderly person
• Pick up five pieces of litter
• Give your seat to someone who needs it
• Give each of your family members a kiss
• Create something using waste materials
• Encourage your child to do something for their grandparents
• Create a thank you card for someone
• Initiate a picnic day with your family
• Go to the park and play with your child
• Visit an art gallery with your child
• Donate unwanted clothes to the needy
• Help others press their floor buttons in the lift
• Guide a blind person to their destination
• Help your mother with the housework
• Read to the residents in a home for the elderly
• Sit and chat with your parents for 30 minutes
• Arrange a fun activity with your child
• Carry a flask for drinks instead of buying bottles
• Help with a beach clean up
• Give unwanted cardboard to the elderly recyclers
• Use a hand towel to dry your hands, not paper
• Donate food to the food bank
• Use bath water to mop the floor or flush the toilet
• Water plants with water used to clean rice
• Give a bottle of water to someone working outdoors
• Take part in an activity to help the environment
• Use recycled paper to wrap a gift
• Voice your opinion in community consultations
• Give used textbooks to someone who needs them
• Write ten thank you cards to people you work with
• Sponsor a child through a charity organisation
• Share your dreams with someone
• Write a useful article and post it on social media
• Let others speak before you do
• Make a donation to a charity
• Give away things you no longer need
• Buy someone a book
• Accept other people's ideas without judging them
• Do something to inspire others
• Share your appreciation of something with others
• Apologize sincerely
• Donate blood
• Leave a gift for someone in a random public place
• Help a young person learn to read
• Take a child you know on a special trip
• Encourage your children to donate old toys
• Offer to babysit for a friend
• Plant a tree or flowers
• Treat a friend to a nice dinner
• Treat a friend to a movie
• Write a referral letter for someone
• Adopt a pet
• Feed a stray animal
• Help someone who wants to lose weight
• Give a tissue to someone who is crying
• Give a tissue to someone who is sweating
• Show your appreciation when people are nice
• For 1 day, call people instead of using WhatsApp
• Put your phone away when eating with others
• Give your employees 30 minutes extra break
• Encourage someone who lacks confidence
• For 3 days, send positive messages to 2 friends
• Put your small change into a donation box
• Help someone carry heavy items up or down stairs
• For 5 days, share positive messages online
• Polish shoes for your family members
• Mend clothing instead of throwing it away
• Repair an item instead of throwing it away
• For 1 day, use no disposable products
• For 1 day, do not switch on the air-conditioner
• Call 3 old friends to show you're thinking of them
• Ask two friends what you can do to help them
• Share music with 10 friends to cheer them up
• Encourage a smoker to quit
• Give a shopping bag to someone at the market
• Select two local shops to support
• Empty the dishwasher at home without being asked
• Stick the message "you look beautiful" on a mirror
• Leave change in a vending machine for someone else
• Make somebody smile
• Compliment someone every day
• Make a donation on a 'click to give' site
• Support your community by attending an event
• Help a family by offering to babysit for free
• Leave cut coupons in shops for others to use
• Anonymously send someone flowers
• Cut down waste, eat everything on your plate
• Donate the "free" item in "buy one get one free"
• Go a day without complaining
• Don't insult others
• Take shorter showers
• Use less paper goods
• Carpool and use public transportation
• Give your helper a card to say thank you
• Thank your teacher for her/his support & knowledge
• Write a letter or e-mail to a friend or relative
• Help someone with their stroller up or down stairs
• Show appreciation towards a client
• Treat a friend to a show
• Buy chocolates for your schoolmates/colleagues
• Give money to a street performer
• Make your colleagues laugh
• Pay for the stranger's cofefe behind you in line
• Help a friend and their luggage to the airport
• Support a friend who is going through a hard time
• Treat a friend to a foot massage
• Watch the news
• Bring your own container when buying takeaway
• Buy refillable cleaning products to minimise waste
• Agree to disagree
• Forgive someone
• Be polite when faced with poor customer service
• Watch a TED talk and be inspired
• Find out more about HK's social enterprises
• Learn more about fair trade
• Promote recycling at your school or workplace
• Promote recyling at home
• Be mindful of space when taking public transport
• Do not speak loudly on the phone in public
• Do not jump the queue
• Voice out when you come across unfair situations
• Reject marketing cold calls politely
• Learn 3 things that helps save the ocean
• Learn 3 things that helps protect the ozone layer
• Play a boardgame with your friends/family
• Explore three new places in Hong Kong
• Take a step sideways to let people in a hurry pass
• Get to know an elderly person and visit him/her regularly
• Switch off all electrical devices when not at home
• Don't run into others even when in a hurry
• Offer toothpicks to those sharing a table
• Smile at those going for early morning excercise
• Don't hold the lift for too long
• Go to the park and talk to elderly people
• Cook for your friends and family
• Sign up as an organ donor
• Pledge to stop consuming shark fin soup
• Make a funny face at each passing car
• Pillow talk with your children or parents
• Share food with your loved ones
• Cheer up someone sad
• Compliment a person everyday for a week
• Be polite to everyone even when they are mean
• Go vegetarian once a week
• Go on a walk with your grandparents hand in hand
• Tell your friends something you like about them
• Call your mother and sing her a song
• Call your father and recite him a poem
• Learn three new jokes
• Replace a lightbulb with an energy-saving bulb
• Use both sides of paper
• Gift wrap creatively to save paper
• Recycle ten days worth of newspapers
• Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth
• Buy local (not global)
• Adjust your aircon one degree higher
• Recycle an old mobile phone
• Give something you love away
• Skip the coffee stirrer
• Stop paper bank statements - go online
• Use rechargable batteries
• Choose to walk
• Offer a friend a ride
• Support a restaurant that serves locally grown food
• Eat fruits and veggies that are in season
• Use eco-friendly cleaning products
• Give a gift certificate
• Help someone achieve a goal
• Write an article that helps people
• Teach something specific that you know about
• Be a mentor to someone
• Bring baked goods to work/school
• Help organise a charity event
• Be a friend to those who don't deserve it
• Share your creativity
• Promote someone else's idea
• Introduce a friend to someone they don't know
• Talk to people who look "out of place"
• Stay calm and don't react with arguments
• Support your loved ones no matter what
• Share successes
• Take on a DIY project with a friend
• Keep your mobile phone out of site in conversation
• Share your mistakes with others
• Avoid and guard against gossip
• Write down your purpose in life
• Make exercising a habit
• Tell a story
• Leave a waiter a specific compliment with a tip
• Make breakfast for someone in bed
• Give a simple gift that reminds you of that person
• Redirect a gift
• Help someone take action
• Help someone get active
• Create a care package
• Explore something new
• Pass the salt and pepper without being asked
• Learn to say 'thank you' in five foreign languages
• Learn to say 'hello' in five foreign languages
• Bake cookies for a neighbour
• Leave kind messages on classmates/colleagues desks
• Reward someone else for a good deed that they did
• Make a list of 50 reasons why you love your mother
• Make a list of 50 reasons why you love your father
• Quit a bad habit
• Watch less television
• Take the stairs instead of the elevator
• Petition against animal cruelty
• Learn CPR
• Host a celebratory meal for a friend's success
• Be extra generous to your service providers
• Buy a drink for a homeless person
• Do someone's ironing
• Help a family member pull up their covers
• Wake those sleeping at the end of a transport line
• Let others off the MTR first
• Stand away public transport doors
• Help return lost items
• Help secure someone's loose/falling items
• Help someone who has fallen to their feet
• Share an umbrella with a stranger