About Cecilia.W.Yu 余詠詩
Cecilia is a Social entrepreneur and a Professional Visual Artist, who really likes to “tell it how it is”, having travelled to over 40 countries around the world & seen some interesting things every so often….
Her “Love without a Heart” collection was inspired by 3 years in the far East (visits to Bhutan, Nepal, India, Tibet & Western China). With it she began to explore the interface between painting/embroidery and the most valuable commodity to the ancient kingdoms “Silk”. The entire collection was painted on White Silk!
Her Solo show at Edinburgh Art festival had Tracy Emin Heading the 2008 Festival and Glenmorangie Brewery sponsoring “Love Without a Heart”.
Cecilia’s Limited Variable Print edition “Floating; The price of prosperity” explored an underlying fusion of Egyptian & Chinese concepts of Wealth, was used for the Best of Modern China, pre-Olympic ChinaNow cultural promotion in 2008.
“Eventually we will all be Middleclass?” was a Graffiti-fusion Collaboration withPURE where we sprayed ironically & legally in Surrey (the richest county in the UK) challenging issues of Money & Class. It was exhibited at Climate Forum (Klimaforum’09 in Copenhagen during COP15 United Nations Climate Change Summit. This led to her 2012 Artistic Exchanges with Team Robbo as Team Robbo and YU at Liverpool’s Bombed Out Church.
A recent piece of East-west punk inspired fusion: “Punk Dog, Glam Rock” ended up as the first permanent installation for the future (to be rebuilt) Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan.(Part of a 370 piece postcard/art collection) It is currently touring Northwestern Japan & Tokyo sponsored by the Japanese Embassy & British chamber of commerce.
Cecilia grew up in multicultural Melbourne, Australia and spent a bit of her formative years going to Kindergarten in Hong kong and then flying back/forth so she speaks fluent chinese, english & “Austraaliaan”.
Cecilia has an MBA in Sustainable Media Joint Ventures specialising in East-West MNE ventures, a background in Public Relations & Marketing for both Public & Private sector. She has consulted various Directors of NGOs and Charities in all 5 continents, acting as Non-executive Director, sitting on Boards of Advisory Panel etc.
She Loved her travels to interesting places like the Gorbachev Foundation, Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the great Boudhanath stupa in Nepal and Annapurna, up in the Himalayas.
Cecilia wandered onto some freelance journalist work and was published in one of Hong Kong (SAR)’s English Daily newspaper with 1.3million daily readership. But she also got an angry letter from the office of a SE Asian country which started with “Re: There is no sexual harassment in this part of our country, please retract your statement!” lol. The editor in Chief politely declined.
Cecilia was the finalist in the Miss Asia-International (Australia) Pageant 國際華裔小姐競選 and enjoyed an active modelling career in her younger and much, much thinner days! lol. With a background in Visual Media & Law, Cecilia moved to London. She did an intense course for professionals in fashion design at London’s St. Martin College and got a glimpse of London Fashion week a few times when working for a wonderful British jewellery designer.
Cecilia’s Sustain-Able blog has a no-nonsense take on the madness that is our politicised planet & how messed up censorship, culturally unsustainable policies are! :/ It is okay to use a bit of “black humour” if you are actually doing something to make a difference ..its not if you are just whining! lol. Strangely enough, she got reblogged to 20million when she called someone a Red Sk8nk in 2011 (okay, somebody famous denied Tiananmen Massacre….it wasn’t random! 
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Hi Cecilia,
I like the values you’re espousing and the multiple talents you’re applying. My own preference for “culture healing” is at the intersection of popular movements and mass media – journalism and cinema/TV . . . and now WWWeb distribution.
I’d like to communicate with you and explore ways in which we might collaborate to make the world more supportive of human rights and of everyone getting what they need to develop their positive potential.
I’m in the California time zone.
Do you ever travel to the US, especially California?
Best wishes,
Fred
Thank you. Please feel free to post your work here.
Thank you Fred. Talk soon. We are always open to new collaborations!
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Thank you Victor, for sending me your work! I will have a look at it! Hope you are well.
Hi Cecilia, I read your site and about you and think you are doing great. Below is a link to the VOT very first video format debate on the issue of ongoing repression in Tibet and desperate actions by monks immolating themselves.. for change.. http://vimeo.com/30253520
Maybe you find time to for a lookthrough. VOT website is found at: http://www.vot.org/?page_id=28
Kind regards from Oystein living in Oslo, Norway
Thank you so much Oystein for this. I will definitely blog the issue! Your vimeo is really useful. I am a big one for human rights around the world and I always welcome intelligent debates & inputs about different issues around the world. As you know I am an avid suporter of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s Charter08 because it discusses Civil liberties for everyone living in Asia. Unfortunately this also got him 11 yrs in jail. Please keep in touch on my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/creativefreespeech and thank you, please feel free contact me again via my blog or my facebook page. all the best to you in Norway.
Cecilia
I love the comment of your topic. Obviously you have a very valid point, however I can’t get over how great the site design is.
Leos. I thank WordPress for giving it to me for free!
Keep me posted on your blog. goodluck. CC
I love your post, it’s nice when you can tell somebody actuallly puts effort into a layout, and gives the layouts.
thank you. Keep me posted on your blog! All the best. CC
Hi there, You’ve done an excellent job. I definitely dig it and in my opinion will recommend it to my friends. I am sure they will be benefited from this web site.
Thank you very much. Merry Christmas! (CC)
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Hi, Neat post. There is a problem with your site in internet explorer, would test this… IE still is the market leader and a huge portion of people will miss your excellent writing because of this problem.
from Cecilia: If you are posting from certain countries, it may be that some of the contents are temporarily blocked cos of your own regional censorship…but usually it comes back in awhile if it is a cache thing from my end. Let me know and I will check it out. Others use IE in other countries.They Have not found any problems. Thanks for letting me know. cheers (CC)
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about information and love learning more on this. If possible,it is very helpful for me.
HI Cecilia.
Would love to know more about London Iprotest 2012. with Team Robbo – Channel 4 celebrated them as London’s most respected Graffiti Artist.
Hey Giri, I’ve inboxed you. My old school pal had a bit of a bicker with Banksy when they were way young and no one was “known”. I don’t really know much about street art because it has its own exacting tradition and is a different genre to fine art and I respect that!
So 2008 we did a graffiti-east-west fusion piece being a bit ironic about “Eventually we will all be Middleclass?” in Surrey and that got shown at Climate Forum 09 during COP15 Climate change summit (along with some french performance artist who wanted to turn his intestine into Green salads in a whole Derrida “deconstruction” thing.
Lol. I have inboxed you with the “practical” details now. This is just my thoughts on stuff. Loved the video!
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Thanks Cecilia. I’ve emailed you a ‘bit’ about myself.
I am a fan of your projects and work. Thank you for the links.
As mentioned in my email reply: I would jump at the chance of associating with ANY of you projects.
My friends got a good phrase for the trendy middleclass set: ‘Surrey Sarees’ and ‘Soho Bohos’. Thought you’d get a kick out of that
From Cecilia: Giri, I will respond to everything else in your inbox. thank you for being patient. I am flat-out this week with Inspiring women sumit 2012 where on Sat there is a live conference with Nobel Laureate Jody Williams.
lol. I’m sure my friend will get a laugh out of your joke…. sometimes for graffiti artists from “that” generation …..being “eventually…middleclass” + Extremely well-educated…. can be very powerful if you want to lobby in a deep and long-term way…
P.S we are trying to protect your privacy so I only ever post up: people’s official websites, searchable office contact details only. It keeps everyone sane!
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From Cecilia: Nothing to seek! I don’t think Banksy is here, dear but if he was he’d be welcomed as we are all artists, just in different genres …:) Peace. (CC)
I’m truly enjoying the design and layout of your blog. It’s very easy on the eyes which makes it much more enjoyable for me to come here and visit more often. Did you hire out a designer to create or adopt your theme? Great work!
Hi there, You have done a great job.
This design is steller! You certainly know how to keep a reader amused. Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Great job. I really enjoyed what you had to say, and how you presented it. Too cool!
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Cecilia.
Im out of the Sino heartland and back home in NYC.
Three months trip was fab,, I’ll b back next Sept/Oct,, also for three months when it s cooler. I will include Seoul this time.
Have you had more thoughts about the fashion collection? I think the fact that you are thinking of it makes me believe it s a strong idea to entertain and perhaps, worthwhile pursuing.
Send me more of your thoughts and comments particularly the marketing and administration of it.
Your are a creative person,,fashion will flow naturally to you.
Abrazos, Jorge
Hi Jorge. Yeah loads of people are nagging me about this.
I would like to take it slowly…as Dec 2012 I am exhibiting in the Cairo Opera House Art Gallery with an egyptian artist fr their artists guild…..
Glad you had a good trip…but ah…you know….:p…the north is so barbaric and commie….it is like a bad chapter in Noble House….preferrably for me the chapter re: how hong kong dealt with russian industrial plagiarist spies. Lol.
Hope your venture was successful. Thanks for thinking of me. I will inbox u my skype details.
Best wishes CC
Hi Cecilia. I saw your fb comment about substance abuse. This film looks at the planting of marijuana seeds with highest $1000 fines for repeat offenders. Habituation is different from addiction with marijuana, it’s not mindfulness! When will the ignorance stop? Marijuana causes blurred vision, slurred ignorance, long term psychosis! Just because it keeps a patient with impaired medical conditions is not a good reason to legalise….there are other pain relief alternative…that is an addict’s excuse!!!
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One must be clear that marijuana should not be ignored as a substance Abuse. The answer is found in damage to other organs when using marijuana. You can find all this by a professional drug test. Despite schools’ efforts to inform students of the dangers…abusors continue to spread propaganda about its harmlessness! But there is a good reason why we made cannabis prescriptions illegal in the United States.
Respect for your work and position on protecting victims of drug crimes first! They are innocent…not the abusors!!!
Thank you Tranna…you are very well informed unlike me who did not really understand it until another neighbor ( a professional social worker) said his cat looks sick and called the rspca! Disgusting! The poor thing was high and couldnt walk straight and we are still feeding his poor white cat because it refused to go home anymore and hang out in our yard! The lying landlord hid this from us so we would help him to not lose his house as a friend and he took advantage of us like a cheap scum by becoming an Enabler and Codependent to the weed dealer next door, going into denial….so in a way…my landlord is worse and more evil than the guy who is doing this while his 10 yrs old is living with him…that my landlord has a daughter of his own and still turns a blind eye shows his character and integrity as a human being and I can’t see people like this kind of unethical weed-head raising a healthy child!
I am aware that there are many professionals with addictions that hide it in their jobs! I am all for Corporate and Government Drug test, if nothing else…it might save the lives of the children sitting at home dealing with a messed-up Drug Addict as a parent, however functional an addict people like that pretend to be…my work with Griffin Charitable Trust which is an award winning, UNICEF funded project for 10 yrs+ can attest to the fact that the Entire supply chain from production to consumption (no matter what socio-economic background the end-users are) is toxic for children raised in the environment…there is NO WAY of not spreading this kind of negativity when raising a child in one form or another!
It was also shocking to me that recently I came across one of Obama’s fundraisers who actually celebrated how great it was that weed for self consumption at home was approved across some states and saw it as a way to the future of promoting more legalising of the entire Supply chains of drugs. I think people like that are very insular and need to get out of their white picket fence gated communities and take a short-sharp trip to drug farms in Asia, Jamaica and South America to see the kind of damaged lives they are advocating for children over there! If they still feel they can live with that, I suggest they use their own children and grandchildren as drug mules before they decide to sacrifice the lives of children in the developing world for a cheap “hit”. You cannot get me to rant enough against this when I had to get telephone calls from Griffin Charitable Trust’s founder telling me tales of 9 yrs old children, gang-raped and used as drug mules!
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Hi there. Lol. If you read some of the other comments around, you will realise I know nothing about Soccer…except the quality of the cocktails in Arsenal’s members club….and that Barcelona is a football team that supports Unicef….beyond that…Nothing!
Thank you for visiting. CC
You have a new fan from Delhi! What you doing is good and true.
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Excellent blog here! Can I get your affiliate link to your host and link it to my Tibet Travel site? It is good to see a chinese who is not trying to change Tibetan culture but learns about it from the people directly. You are one of a kind.
Angelo. yes of course. Please read the Creative Commons agreement, attribute and link back etc…thank you.
I enjoyed your Travel itinerary. But please at least mention the socio-ecological implication of the train up to the Khampa highlands….China is not exactly ace on this point and as far as I’m concern, I’m not one of a kind…there are millions who do not want a “commie-fication” of diversity inside the borders of China and this includes respecting Tibetan, Mongol, Urdu and many many ethnicities. It is just that when other chinese discuss this, it happens in chinese so unless you speak fluent chinese …you are unlikely to hear about it. English may not be the lingua franca of the future…..the way things are going….especially on the internet…I hope 1.3 billion will be FREE of all commies scumhoes!
I encourage everyone to travel to Tibet so that they can bear witness to any Commie Scumhoes oppressive cultural imperialism policies….and end the insanity and tragedy that is Self-immolation of monks/nuns (I blame it on oppression which btw makes as much victims out of poor chinese “settlers” who do not in fact want to live in Tibet but were given the choice of a) starving while commie scumhoes landgrab their village withou compensation rendering them homeless or b) commie scumhoes rendering them homeless and torturing their families and them or c) commie scumhoes doing a + b and then sending them to Tibet to live in a climate they really can’t handle! I saw all this when I visited Tibet, I heard their stories….it is not fun to be poor yokels from Sichuan living in Tibet anymore than it is for Tibetans to see the poor yokes from Sichuan…all are unhappy because of the evil that is Commie Scumhoes inhumane policies!).
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I thought it was going to be some boring old site, but I’m glad I visited. I will post a link to this page on my blog!! I am sure my visitors will find that very useful:) Is that okay? cheers Wes.
From Cecilia: Yes sure, Creaive Commons 3.0. Just link back to my blog and please Don’t make money out of my content without getting a different licence from me. Thank you. Have fun!
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Hi Jac Linn…first of all…the english is a bit chinenglish….and it concerns me that you talk about the religious relic of Tibetan buddhism’s version of a Papal hat ie. the “white hat” like it is some sort of funny Pope hat you find outside the gift shops of the Vatican….I liked the Jokhang area description…I stayed in the Uighur Muslim quarters when I was there…I think it is good if the site uses more Tibetan version of things and not how we would describe it in chinese….just because unintentionally sometimes in the translation, it can sound like we treat their culture like we don’t care..and I certainly care!…having said that…if Tibetans are selling their own “white hats” as overpriced souvenirs…that is not your fault.
…so goodluck and thank you for showing me your site.
P.S In case anyone has any doubts…this is where I stand on the Papal issue…lol….but then again “Pope Off” is not my thing as the only one I would ever support is Pope Joan..:)
Sometimes the choice of pope …. is an indicator of where the world’s power will rise next…so my “take” is on the Brazilian…unless Africa gets more China money or Canada sells more Tar Sands and kill more native first nations to get there…:) I think all those Cardinals really need to rethink their premise for how they vote…then again….I do not work for the Holy See , I’m just some chick with a blog. XXOO
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the format for your blog. Either way keep up the excellent quality writing, it’s uncommon to see a great blog like this one today…with objective balanced views about Tibet.
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