The “Seeing Our Shared Land” Campus Sharing Session, co-organised by Macau Special Olympics and the Macao University of Tourism Library (UTM Library) and promoted by the Marketing Club, was successfully organised at the East Asia Hall of the Macao University of Tourism on 30 October 2026. Approximately 20 students took part in the event, through which the participants could discover wonderful experiences of people with special needs through art, videos, and interactive sharing and gain a better understanding of social inclusion and diversity.

    The sharing session was done in the Mandarin. The event was inaugurated with guest welcome and distribution of the mementos followed by the group photo. The Library Director of UTM, Ms Carmen Lei and Pounby Liang from the Marketing Club, were present to witness the event and participated in the exchange session together with the Macau Special Olympics team and the participating students.

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    During this sharing session, the Macau Special Olympics team presented the idea and process of the "A piece of land" Community art project. Students were able to get more in-depth information about the project and the creative journey of participants through video presentations.

    The creators then presented their artistic journey with the audience, and their ideas. Through learning about the story and process of the works, students could deepen their knowledge of how people communicate their emotions, and their daily experiences or observations of the world around them through their art.

    This sharing and interaction with students were accompanied by special Olympics performer Zeng Zekun. By in-person and authentic dialogue, participants could move beyond the works of art to hear from the creators and the participants' own experiences, and achieve a more real-world understanding of inclusion and diversity and the importance of mutual understanding.

    The Campus sharing session helped the students explore the uniqueness in people's life through their everyday experiences and by sharing themselves through art. The project introduction, video presentation and creator sharing and interactive exchange also gave students a chance to get involved with community art and understand persons with special needs.

    The Marketing club would like to obtain in the future further cooperation with various internal and external partners so as to be able to offer students even more meaningful social themes and offer them different perspectives, motivating students to actively interact with other communities and acquire an understanding of other social groups in addition to the academic environment.