In close collaboration with the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the British Council supports the Festival Plus programme. This year, the Council has brought together specialists from the diverse UK representation at the 2009 Festival to offer you exclusive moments with Tim Crouch, Akram Khan, and artists from the English National Ballet and Theatre Royal Bath.
We are also co-presenting the annual Hong Kong Arts Festival Symposium, 'Excellence by Design', featuring keynote speaker Anthony Sargent from The Sage Gateshead.
Tim Crouch - England, My Arm, An Oak Tree
Workshops & Meet-the-Artist sessions
Workshop (1)
Topic: The Solo Performer and the Audience
Tutor: Tim Crouch
Date: 9 February 2009 (Monday)
Time: 7.00 - 10.00p.m.
Suitable for theatre practitioners
Working with ideas from Tim Crouch's monologue, My Arm, this will be an exploration into the nature of solo performance. This workshop provides creative and practical processes for creating an engaging monodrama.
Workshop (2)
Topic: Creative Writing for Performance
Tutor: Tim Crouch
Date: 10 February 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 3.00 - 5.00p.m.
For senior secondary and tertiary students
A practical introductory workshop on writing for the stage. Learn how to translate ideas into text and stage action and explore the differences between dramatic text and other forms of writing. Bring a pen!
Workshop (3)
Topic: Theatre and Young Audience
Tutor: Tim Crouch
Date: 11 February 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 3.00 - 5.00p.m.
Suitable for teachers and teaching artists
Based on Tim Crouch's extensive experience of teaching and performing for young people, this is a workshop which explores the pedagogy of theatre forms within an educational setting. Sharing exercises and strategies to get young people engaged with theatre.
Workshop (4)
Topic: An Audience’s Role
Tutor: Hannah Ringham
Date: 14 February 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 2.00 - 4.00p.m.
This workshop challenges the traditional role of the audience in theatre. A play will be created in which the audience moves through the action and plays an integral part. It will start by exploring the space, and will play with the journey, ideas, and techniques while questioning audience and the way live experience is shared. Hannah Ringham is a founder member of London’s award winning Shunt collective who produce theatre in unusual spaces.
Workshops venue:
Room 307/308, 3/F, British Council,
3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong
No. of participants for each workshop: 25
Fee: $100 per workshop
In English
Meet-the-Artist sessions (Post-Performance)
England
Date: 10 February 2009 (Tuesday)
Venue: Tang Contemporary Art
An Oak Tree
Date: 14 February 2009 (Saturday)
Venue: Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Theatre Royal Bath/Old Vic - Pygmalion
Reading Pygmalion
Date: 6 February 2009 (Friday)
Time: 3.00 - 5.00p.m.
Venue: Room 307, 3/F, British Council, 3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong
No. of participants: 20
Admission fee: $30
In English
Improve English pronunciation by reading Pygmalion with members of the Theatre Royal Bath.
English National Ballet - Alice in Wonderland
Backstage tour & Meet-the-Artist session
Backstage tour
Date: 6 March 2009 (Friday)
Venue: Backstage, Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
By invitation only
In English
Participants will be led by English National Ballet’s Company Manager, Sarah Cannon-Jones, to the music, costume, make-up and wigs departments, to learn what really happens behind the scenes.
Meet-the-Artist (Post-Performance)
Date: 5 March 2009 (Thursday)
Venue: Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
In English
Akram Khan & Juliette Binoche - In-I
Meet-the-Artist (Post-Performance)
Date: 5 March 2009 (Thursday)
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
In English
Symposium – Excellence by Design
A symposium on creating successful spaces for arts activities
Date: 13 February 2009 (Friday)
Time: 2.00-5.00 p.m.
Venue: 7/F Bank of East Asia Tower, Millennium City 5, Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon (Exit A2, Kwun Tong MTR Station)
Fee: HK$150
In English
The symposium this year addresses the following questions:
“What are the active ingredients for planning and operating successful arts spaces? What sort of input is required? From whom? And at what points in the planning process?”
Keynote Speaker
Anthony Sargent, General Director, The Sage Gateshead
Panellists
Anne Minors, Director, Anne Minors Performance Consultants Limited
Robert Essert, Founder and Director, Sound Space Design Limited
Programme Schedule
2.00 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks
2.15 p.m. Keynote
3.00 p.m. Panel discussion
3.30 p.m. Open to the floor
4.15 p.m. Summary and concluding comments
4.30 p.m. Refreshments
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