Past Events
Performing Arts Symposium – Asian Transformation: New Perspectives on Creativity and Performing Arts Education
20 - 22 November 2014
School / Department : HKAPA 30th Anniversary
Category : Academy Events
To explore the unique role that Asia is playing in creative practice and performing arts education in the 21st century, the Academy will host a symposium entitled Asian Transformation: New Perspectives on Creativity and Performing Arts Education. This symposium will see internationally renowned performing arts and creative industry practitioners participating alongside their Hong Kong counterparts and Academy staff and students in a three-day event from 20 to 22 November 2014 as part of the Academy’s 30th Anniversary celebrations.
The symposium will explore in open dialogues its theme:
“21st century Hong Kong is a dynamic and diverse cultural metropolis at a unique point of intersection between Asian and Western creative practice. With Asia ascendant on the world stage, Hong Kong’s identity as Special Administrative Region of China and its rich cross-cultural influences ideally position it to explore new creative paradigms and their potential to shape the future of performing arts education”.
Keynote speakers, performances by Academy students and partners, and round-table discussions, centered around the themes of Crossing Cultures, New Paths to Creativity, Living Traditions, and New Pedagogies, will allow participants to contribute their expertise in building new approaches, methodologies, practices, and paradigms in performing arts and creative industry practice, research, and education.
Highlights of the symposium include performances by the Academy’s Young Cantonese Opera Troupe and its Schools of Drama, Dance and Music, students and faculty performers from the Shanghai Theatre Academy and student and graduate composers from Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Taipei.
With planning ongoing, and interest mounting, organisers anticipate that Asian Transformation: New Perspectives on Creativity and Performing Arts Education will prove a fitting culmination to the Academy’s 30th Anniversary celebrations.
For full details about the symposium, please visit the Academy’s symposium website at: http://www.hkapa.edu/30th-anniversary/symposium/
Academy Sunset Concert 2014
14 June 2014‖19:30
Venue : HKJC Amphitheatre (former Academy Amphitheatre)
The Heritage of Cantonese Music
13 June 2014‖18:00
Venue : Academy Concert Hall
Free admission, tickets are released at the Academy Box Office half an hour before the concert on a first-come-first-served basis
Academy Dance: Three Dances for a Celebration!
09 - 10 May 2014‖20:00
Venue : Academy Drama Theatre
Inter-school Performance : The Taming of the Shrew
09 - 10 May 2014‖07:30
Venue : Academy Lyric Theatre
30th Anniversary Launch Ceremony
23 January 2014‖17:00
Venue : HKJC Amphitheatre (former Academy Amphitheatre)