Artist Talk: Arts & Community Building Series ( 3 )
Jockey
Club Creative Arts Centre
Centre for Coummunity Cultural Development
Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum
Co-present
Transforming
Violation and Loss into
Community-based Solidarity and Action
Dan Baron Cohen
Dan
Baron Cohen: playwright and director, currently president of the International
Drama/Theatre and Education Association. He worked in Ireland and England as a
theatre practitioner and an academic. He has been involved in cultural
development work for the past 10 years in Brazil. He has given workshops and
lectured all over the world, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Australia.
A student of Edward Bond, Augusto Boal and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o(father of African
Renaissance), Dan Baron Cohen has developed his own pedagogical approach called
Transformance (transformation through performance) which focuses on dialogue,
community building, cultural action and change, utilizing music, dance and
theatre. Participants in his workshops will explore the history of themselves
and their communities and reflect on their present circumstances.
Dan Baron Cohen will engage those present at his talk in a dialogic experience
with an extremely interesting powerpoint of works that he did in Brazil. Brazil,
being a fast growing economy in the world, has been undergoing a process in
which communities were violated, transgressed, brutalized and Dan Baron Cohen's
work, through arts and theatre, intervenes to generate solidarity and action.
Dan Baron Cohen’s visit is funded by China - UK: Connections through Culture,
British Council.
Date: 26
November 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Venue:
L4-03, JCCAC, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Free Admission
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Enquiries:
Centre for Community Cultural Development
Tel: 2891 8488/ 2891 8482
Fax: 2891 8483
Email:
cccd@cccd.hk
Website:
www.cccd.hk
Address: L5-04, JCCAC, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon,
Hong Kong
