workshops and events
LONDON, ONLINE, SINGAPORE, WORLDWIDE
180 Wellbeing: Creativity and Play Workshops
LONDON, 2023 - Present
In these sessions at 180 Wellbeing for Soho House , Beatrix guides participants through a check-in of their feelings of the morning. Following this, members are invited to play! Engaging in play is an overlooked yet scientifically proven method that benefits our social, emotional and physical health. Through a simple exercises designed and led by Beatrix, participants practice fun and joy to alleviate stress and boost a positive mood. The session is rounded off with a short meditation.
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Soho House: Being Creative, Being Asian
LONDON, 2023 - Present
Beatrix Ong MBE hosts a series of fire-side chats in the series she produces, ‘Being Creative, Being Asian.’ Approached by Soho House to be included in their diversity programming through the Houses, Beatrix invites key figures of Asian origins in the creative and wellness industries, to share their experiences whilst raising awareness and celebrating the Asian, East Asian and South East Asian identity.
2024 sees the start of The BCBA Circle, a monthly community meet up. To be notified of future meet ups, please sign up here.
Guests MiMi Aye, Chef and Author; Tet Yap Founder Glass Magazine; Ada Ooi, celebrity Red Carpet Aesthetician
Jimmy Choo Award
LONDON, 2017- Present
Beatrix Ong MBE is a guest judge at London College of Fashion for the Jimmy Choo Awards, awarded to London College of Fashion MA students.
Representing Dato Jimmy Choo and The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, Ong is asked to help decide the winner of the award which helps the students with their final projects’ expenses.
Soho House: Eco Family Workshop
LONDON, 2023
Beatrix Ong MBE and award winning CQ Studio hosted an eco creative event at Soho House London. The family workshop was designed to ignite children’s imagination through creativity and nature - learning about the importance of our connection to the world around us and the origins of some of the elements that were used in the session - bug alert!
Children had the opportunity to design and use embroidery, appliqué or screen printing with the natural materials to produce their own eco artwork.
Design Museum: Motion and Forces
LONDON, 2022
Join artist Conrad Shawcross RA, Fashion Designer Beatrix Ong MBE and Director of Patrimony and Exhibitions at Van Cleef & Arpels, Lise MacDonald, as they discuss the significance of motion and forces in their work with the Design Museum Director Tim Marlow.
How do designers, creatives and artists make static objects come alive? What are the secrets to making jewellery, artworks or fashion capture motion? Hear these questions explored with Conrad Shawcross RA, one of the UK’s most important sculptors, Director of Patrimony and Exhibitions at Van Cleef & Arpels Lise MacDonald and fashion accessories designer Beatrix Ong MBE.
Join us for this panel discussion chaired by Design Museum Director Tim Marlow where they consider flow, balance, fine craftsmanship and storytelling in their creative thinking and practice.
Design Museum: HOW SUSTAINABLE IS THE FUTURE OF FOOTWEAR?
GLOBAL, 2021
Tom Dixon and Beatrix Ong on sustainability in design.
To mark the Design Museum's SneakersUnboxed: From Studio to Street exhibition which opens on the 18 May 2021, tune in to the museum's Instagram live this Wednesday from 12.30PM GMT to hear from designers Tom Dixon and Beatrix Ong as they discuss the future of footwear.
Beatrix Ong MBE x Vitra Webcast
LONDON, 2020
Beatrix Ong MBE joined Jurgen Junker, Ludwig Engel and Raphael Gielgen from Vitra on their Webcast on the Work Panorama 2020. The series was based on the subject of Future of Work in Uncertain Times. Above were the points discussed with the invitation only guests that joined in on Zoom.
Restaurant and Bar Design Awards 2020
GLOBAL, 2020
Beatrix Ong MBE is on the judging panel of the 2020 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards.
Now in its twelfth year and with entries from over 100 countries worldwide, we cover every imaginable space; From ships to airports, museums to burger vans, from revered Michelin-starred establishments to the fleeting dynamism of pop-ups.
Ong joined 2020 judges of industry leading figures working across design, architecture, hospitality and lifestyle media. Including editor-in-chiefs of Conde Nast Traveler, Elle and GQ.
The Cordwainers National Footwear Student of the Year Awards
LONDON, 2020 - 2022
'More than ever, it is important to support our future generations and nurture creativity however we can'. Beatrix Ong MBE
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is delighted to announce the winners of the Cordwainers National Footwear Student of the Year Awards 2020.
The Clerk of the Cordwainers, Penny Graham said, ‘We were thrilled to welcome internationally recognized members of the footwear industry, Michael Atmore, Charlotte Olympia Dellal and Cordwainer Beatrix Ong MBE, to join the existing Cordwainer judges, Katie Greenyer and Joachim Sedelmeier, on our panel this year. It is fantastic that such significant figures have been so generous with their time and expertise to encourage young talent and promote the future of British footwear design’.
A Bee and A Tree: A Reading and Art Workshop
LONDON, 2018
This family activity requires a parent/guardian to attend with their child. Suitable for children aged 3+ years.
Join Beatrix in this very special reading of her book A Bee and A Tree, then participate in a colouring in and making of a paper snow globe to take home for the festive season!
Look out for more activities at libraries throughout London which have A Bee and A Tree on their shelves.
Get Into Design, Family Workshop at the Design Museum
LONDON, 2018
This family activity requires a parent/guardian to attend with their child. Suitable for children aged 8-11 years.
Learn basic principles of footwear design and create your own slippers with designer Beatrix Ong. Join this workshop to explore the design of footwear whilst gaining inspiration to develop your own ideas. Learn about the construction of a basic cosy house slipper, which you can adapt and personalise to make your own. You will gain the basic knowledge of how to make simple footwear and be able to continue making more slippers at home. This workshop has a sustainability focus, materials will be supplied but please do feel free to bring your own to help decorate your designs.
Brainstorm Design Conference
FORTUNE, TIME, WALLPAPER*
SINGAPORE, 2018
FORTUNE MAGAZINE 2018
Beatrix Ong MBE : SUSTAINABILITY X DESIGN
The world’s leading businesses are discovering the transformative power of design as a vital element of corporate strategy. Fortune 500 giants like GE, IBM and Ford Motor as well as tech dynamos like Alphabet, Apple and Facebook are investing heavily to strengthen their design capabilities not just to make their products more aesthetically pleasing and easier to use, but to understand their customers and keep them coming back. The world’s most successful companies are embracing design thinking in every aspect of what they do: from what type of goods and services they provide to how they interact with customers, recruit and develop talent and structure their organizations.
Presenting Brainstorm Design
Brainstorm Design is a unique new conference dedicated to exploring the increasingly crucial nexus between business and design. The three-day event, to be held at The Mandarin Oriental Singapore on March 6-8, 2018, is the latest addition to Fortune’s influential Brainstorm conference series. For the first time, Time Inc. will combine the editorial wisdom and resources of three of its biggest brands: Fortune, TIME and Wallpaper*. Editors from all three titles will collaborate to deliver a lively and informative event that brings together the Fortune 500’s most powerful executives and the world’s most talented designers.
Wallpaper* Handmade classics
Singapore, 2017
The Shoe Tree by BEATRIX ONG x Joined and Jointed was selected to be included in Wallpaper* Handmade Classics.
Launched on 9 March as part of the fourth annual Singapore Design Week, the exhibition will present a selection of the finest designs from Wallpaper’s Handmade initiative. An annual project now in its eighth year, Wallpaper* Handmade sees the world’s foremost design magazine cherry-pick cutting-edge artists, makers and manufacturers from around the globe to create one-off pieces. From sleek industrial accessories to furniture, food, fashion and more, the works are presented each year as an exhibition at Milan’s Salone del Mobile and in a special edition of the magazine. It’s a profound enterprise, exploring the meeting of design and expert craftsmanship through ingenuity and customisation.
Beatrix Ong MBE at Innovation by Design Conference
SINGAPORE, 2017
Beatrix Ong MBE was a guest speaker at Time Inc's first design conference in Singapore. Following a presentation and panel discussion with Tony Chambers, Editor -in-Chief of Wallpaper* Magazine, Ong was interviewed by Fortune during Singapore Design Week’s Innovation by Design Conference where she was honoured as an influential next generation designer.
