Talks & Events

Ms Yeh Wenwen, Executive Director of The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and Ms Erin Liao, Company Manager of Cloud Gate 2, will reveal the Group’s approach to education and community engagement work, and will share their insightful ideas in forming original and creative programmes for the community, engaging people from age 3 to 88.

Two Clore Fellows, Ms Margaret Yang and Ms Lynn Yau, along with Mr Louis Yu from West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and Arts Management Educator Mr Tseng Sun-man will come together to share with us their insights and experiences in this thought-provoking forum aiming to stimulate and recharge innovation and creative sparks.

This two-session workshop using case studies and discussion will look at strategic approaches to planning audience development through a number of different mechanisms. Social media - New media, the power of digital - Creating a ‘wow’ factor, and developing real engagement through education programmes. To use all of these tools we need to find ways of using and sharing existing data and potentially the creation of marketing consortia.

This workshop is suitable for those who are interested in developing business around a creative practice as well as for policy makers who want to understand how to create the infrastructure needed to support an environment of creative entrepreneurship.

This workshop is targeted to provide information and advice for arts administrators to assist them in handling daily financial matters with ease.

This workshop aims to introduce participants to the various options for the formation of a legal entity (from sole proprietorship to limited companies), registration of societies and the statutory requirements to comply with. Procedures on company setup in different legal formations will be introduced, and practical knowledge on how to apply for tax exemption and charity status will also be covered.

The Chief Executive of Hallé Concerts Society, Mr. John Summers, is going to share with arts practitioners at this talk and networking event, the award winning success of Hallé Orchestra in corporate engagement.

Meet the man himself in this relaxed luncheon talk, with Graham Sheffield sharing with you his arts experiences from London, his innovative programming ideas, his views for arts education, community participation and learning in the arts as well as the development of Hong Kong’s cultural ecology.

We are delighted that Mrs Maisie Shun Wah, Head of Public Affairs, John Swire & Sons (HK) Ltd will share with us the subject on partnership with the arts community, drawing references from the association between Swire and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Topics covered would include, among other things, the criteria for success, the challenges and solutions. For practical use, participants are also encouraged to share their own experiences for mutual learning.

In this forthcoming talk cum workshop, the speaker will share with us the fundamental concepts of arts promotion/marketing as a means to communicate with audience and to entice them. There will also be a workshop provided where participants are invited to bring along past promotional materials from their own organizations for sharing and discussion, and to learn how they can be improved based on the feedback from both the expert and among peer marketers.