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Barter Concert (Hong Kong)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ20312647
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Barter Concert is an event organised by Sonic Lee in a bid to advocate a "sharing spirit" among the community in Hong Kong. There is a different theme each year and every event requires its participants to take an item with them and contribute it to the concert. Items collected will then be sent to the targeted organisation of the year to aid those in need. Through these sharing sessions, the event aimed to raise public awareness of marginalized groups in society. The 2015 event — the third edition — is the most recent known Barter Concert.

Background of the main organizer group

Lee, the founder, is the pianist for a local independent band De Tesla, which was established in 2010. Their music concerns the notion of dream-realization and local social issues. They emphasise on creating the conditions they need to make their dream happen if the society does not provide them with what they need. After several fatal incidents of his friends, Lee attempts to probe the relationship between medical care and life. Lee acknowledges the capability of medical profession in curing patients physically, yet has reservations on the extent of help the medical crew offers psychologically to patients.

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This entry incorporates text from Barter Concert (Hong Kong)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.