Press Release - June 29, 2004

The following is issued on behalf of Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum (TEFO, Hong Kong): -

Hong Kong will be sending a 30-member delegation to participate in the coming International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) World Congress 2004 to be held in Ottawa from July 2 to 8 in Ottawa�s Westin Hotel and various locations in Canada�s capital city.

IDEA is the biggest and the most representative organization in the world that combines the arts and educational experts, front-line practitioners, academics and policy makers together on drama/theatre education, with members from over 60 countries. Since 1992 when the founding congress was held in Porto, Portugal, four world congresses have been held once every three years. The last three world congresses were held in Brisbane, Australia in 1995, in Kenya in 1998, and Bergen, Norway in 2001.

With the strong support of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum (TEFO, Hong Kong) succeeded in obtaining the hosting right of the 2007 World Congress � the first in Asia.

In full support of IDEA 2004, the TEFO, Hong Kong will participate actively in all congress activities and will host some of the workshops and paper presentations and take part in panel discussions to share experience with other congress participants.

In addition, at the Congress�s closing ceremony to be held at 2.30 pm on July 8 at the Southam Hall of National Arts Centre, there will be an official handover of the hosting right to the Hong Kong Delegation as the IDEA 2007 host. The Hong Kong Delegation will host a Reception at 4.00 pm when details of IDEA 2007 would be announced.

At the IDEA 2007 host reception, the Theatre Silence from Hong Kong , a renewed drama group of the deaf, will give a short performance.


Note to Editors:

The following is a list of the Congress activities arranged, hosted or participated by the Hong Kong Delegation: -

Session B � Saturday, July 3 1330 � 1500 THE SALON
Room: TH312, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
The use of MSRT (Moving Sculpture Response Task) in sharing community stories
Tam, Jennifer Bik Ki (Theatre Worker/Drama Therapist)
Fung Wai Ying, Emily (Member of Chosen Power)

Session C � Sunday, July 4 0900 � 1030 PANELS
Room: MOR 250, Morisset Hall, University of Ottawa
Theatre of the deaf, the visually impaired and persons with intellectual disabilities

Panelists:
Mok, Chiu Yu Augustine (Arts with the Disabled Association)
Wai Ying, Emily Fung (Chosen Power)
Tam, Jennifer Bik Ki (theatre Worker/Drama Therapist)

Session C � Sunday, July 4 1200 �1330 POSTERS (Westin Hotel)
Poster: 1
The application of TIE in teaching: Two successful case studies in Hong Kong

Fong, Doris (Exploration Theatre)
Ng, Karley (Exploration Theatre)

Session D � Sunday, July 4 1330 �1500 PAPERS
Room: LMX 121, Lamoureux Hall, Faculty of Education
Asian experimentation with post-modernist form in performance

Tam, Kwok-kan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Yip, Terry S. (The Hong Kong Baptist University)

Session E -Tuesday, July 6 1200 � 1300 POSTERS (Westin Hotel)
Poster: 4
The mosaic land: A collage of creativity and diversity

Tam, Jennifer Bik Ki (Living Stories)

Poster: 5
Excuse me? Raising student voices in museums through drama

Yi-Man, Au (Hong Kong Drama-in-Education practitioner)

Session F � Tuesday, July 6 1330- 1500 PAPERS
Room: LMX 242, Lamoureux Hall, Faculty of Education
Sowing and nurturing seeds of drama education in Hong Kong

Lee, Susanna S. Y. (The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre)

Session G � Wednesday, July 7 0900 �1030 PAPERS
Room: VANIER 462, Vanier Hall, University of Ottawa
The discipline issue in Hong Kong: Does image matter

Shu, Jack (University of Warwick/Education and Manpower Bureau of Hong Kong)

Session H � Wednesday, July 7 1330-1500 WORKSHOPS
Room: LMX 445, Lamoureux Hall, Faculty of Education
The creative application of Theatre in Education in conventional classroom teaching environment

Ng, Karley (Exploration Theatre)

Keynote Perspective Panel - Thursday, July 8 1200 �1300 Westin Hotel Ballroom
Theatre beyond the fourth wall

DANY LYNDERSAY (THE CARIBEAN)
ROBERT MORGAN (CANADA)
CARMEN KELLY (USA)
MAUREEN MARTINEAU E (CANADA/QUEBEC)
GUS MOK (HONG KONG)
CHAIR: ANTHONY JACKSON


You are cordially invited to cover Hong Kong�s participation in IDEA 2004 in Ottawa. For enquiries, please contact Dr. P.K Cheung by phone at (852) 90545567 or e-mail at [email protected] or Mr Gus Mok at [email protected].