Community Art Practice Workshop -- Recruit Participant Organizations!
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Community Art Practice Workshop -- Recruit Participant Organizations!
To learn from dialogue, To Explore Selves, and To Establish a Personal Identity
To Work with Community, To Build Team Spirit, and To Strengthen Community Cohesion
To Practice Cultural Diversity with Art, and To Achieve an Inclusive Society!
TEFO will arrange teaching artists to hold 5-session art workshops in the community center of the participant organizations, with the pedagogy of Transformance.[1] The teaching artists willc collect stories from the community groups from, and facilitate them to create their own collective art work / exhibition / performance, as a part of "Cultural display/performance". (The content of the art work will be related to cultural background or life experience of the community groups, and to achieve the theme of "Embrace Cultural Diversity!".
The participant organization and the community groups are required to organize their own "Cultural Display/Performance".
[Note 1] Transformance means transformation and performance. It is a pedagogy developed by community theater master Dan Baron Cohen for more than 25 years of practice and experience.
Details
Organizer:
Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum
Theme:
To Practice Cultural Diversity with Art, and To Achieve an Inclusive Society!
Date:
Between October to November 2009 to
(The exact dates will be jointly confirmed by TEFO and the participants)
Time:
The exact time will be jointly confirmed by TEFO and the participants, 2.5 hours per session
Venue:
Provided by the participant orgnizations
Instructor:
Local Teaching Artists with experience of Transformance
Target Organizations:
Non-profit social welfare organizations
Class size:
10 - 20 persons (per group)
Fee:
$500 (per group)
Schedule
Mid-Oct to Nov 2009
5-session workshop
Late-Nov 2009
Participant Organizations to organize "Cultural Display/Performance" in their own centre
19-21 Dec 2009
Participating organizations will perform their work in the "Conference on Drama Education in Chinese Communities 2009)
Jan to Jul 2010
Participants may be invited to join the cultural performance for the 7th world conference of International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA 2010) in Brazil. (Details will be announced soon.)
The Roles of TEFO and Participating Organizations
Organizers TEFO will provide
Participating Organizations shall be responsible for
A total of 5 sessions of the "community art practice workshop"
Liaison with Teaching Artists
The direction and advice for the workshops and cultural display/performance
The appropriate venues for workshops and rehearsal
Recruitment of and Liaison with the participants
The assistance in the workshop
Simple documentation of the activities
The assistance of participants in preparation of cultural display/performance
The production cost of "Cultural Display/Performance" (including props, costumes, scenery etc.)
Transportatation
Enrollment
Please complete the Registration Form, together with the bank-in slip (TEFO bank account HBSC 813-212-719-001), or crossed cheque (made payable to "Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum Limited "), and post to Rm 95-11, 11/F, Yau Fung Building, 93-95 Lai Chi Kok Road, Prince Edward, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Please mark "Community Art Practice Workshop" on the envelope.
Application Notice
An inform email will be sent to the applicants upon receipt of the enrollment form and workshop fee. Please contact TEFO if you have no reply after 10 days.
Preference will be given to organization of marginal groups. TEFO will announce the list of participant organization by 20 Sep 2009.
Organizer will reserve the right to any final decision.
Enquires
Contact: Miss Amigo Yeung
Tel: (852) 2511 5997
Fax: (852) 3747 8894
E-mail: amigoypm@gmail.com
Hong Kong Arts Development Council fully supports freedom of artistic expression.
The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
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