Serendip - Making Sense: Shapes & Patterns WorkshopThe Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection

All of us can be creative with a basic understanding of the arts, through practice and experience. digiAFTEC® "Serendip" is a fun and interactive online learning programme that has videos, a Serendip tote bag and face-to-face workshops to develop one’s cognitive and creative thinking skills. The "Serendip" programme begins with an animation of the ancient Persian tale of The Three Princes of Serendip and ends with the key message that arts are everywhere around us. A family-friendly programme, Serendip offers 7 Tools & Skills for the public to understand that arts are crucial in the development of knowledge and creative thinking.

Apart from the free online videos, the programme also provides two live workshops. Each lasts around two hours. Two different artforms will be introduced to the participants. Under the directions of the instructors, you can experience art creation and the joy of interaction with other participants in the artmaking process.

Each purchase of the workshop ticket can enjoy the online video course and get a Serendip tote bag free.

24 June 2023 - Dance and Visual Arts (Tutors: Pewan Chow & Tingmei Cheung & Joyce Ngan)
25 June 2023 - Drama and Music (Tutors: Kenny Poon & Priscila Chu)

Tutors Info:
Tingmei Cheung
After graduating from HKIEd in Art, Tingmei participated in experimental teaching and formal teaching for 11 years. She was a guest lecturer in the Early Childhood Education of HKIEd. From founding Bloomkids Creative in 2008 till now, through teaching, interactive exhibitions, and corporate cooperation, she advocates the concept of “Dare to dream, Live with passion”. Her works have been selected for the RWS Contemporary Watercolor, IWS Malaysia, Philippe Charriol Foundation Art, etc.

Pewan Chow
Pewan Chow was among the first cohort of graduates from the School of Dance, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). She was awarded a scholarship by the London Contemporary Dance School to pursue further study in choreography and performance in 1988. Upon her return to Hong Kong, she taught contemporary dance at the HKAPA from 1991 to 2007, during which she received a Master of Arts in Choreography from the Laban Centre, London in 2003.

As an independent choreographer and performer, Chow endeavours to contribute to the study, education and creation of dance at Passoverdance. Her choreographic works include The taming of the shrew,10gether,Grey Area, In Search of Space in a Cramped City: A Moving Exhibition – Urban Bottling, Maze, Homecoming, Xin Xiang, Solo Act, Searchlight, and Execute I, II, II -- Accomplish. She received the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Production for Homecoming, and in 2013 for Outstanding Independent Dance Production for Maze. Chow is also the recipient of the Hong Kong Dance Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Youth and Community Dance for In Search of Space in a Cramped City: A Moving Exhibition – Urban Bottling in 2016, and Outstanding Dance Education for In Search of Motion in a Virtual City: Grey Area in 2018. Chow was awarded Artist of the Year (Dance) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) in 2017 and awarded Honorary Fellow by Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2022.

Joyce Ngan
Joyce graduated from School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, major in product design. She has wide knowledge in design materials and has been participated in projects like origami home deco and wooden toys design, she pays attention to the process of brainstorming, experimenting and execution. She’s also experienced in painting and graphic design, working as a multimedia illustrator and participated in workshops and wall painting events at the Bloomkids Creative.

Priscila Chu
Priscila Chu is a composer and arts educator. She graduated from York University in Canada majored in Music. Later on, she received a teaching diploma and a Master's degree researched on Music for Autism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also earned a Ph.D. at Hong Kong Baptist University concentrated in music composition and researched on Collaborative (Integrated) Arts.

In recent years, she has taught a wide range of collaborative arts education programs including SmArt Youth Program(2012-2020), In Search of Voice in a Cramped City (2019- 2021), Re-born (2020), and Compassion Children Pilot Program (present). She also composed music for musical ensembles, dance, theatre performances, and documentary film productions. She founded the organization AlpPla and Arts Platform to research, curate and produce arts programs. Her recent creative works include original New Music Theatre Battle (2016, 18), Pseudo Food @ Pseudo World (2019). 10gether for Passoverdance (2019), Feeling of the Atmosphere for Martin Piliponsky (2019), Falling into Place for TELEPHONE Project (2021), Art as Research Project As Flower, as Water, as Mother, (2020-21), and 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦: 𝘙𝘦-𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 (2022).

Kenny Poon
Kenny received Master of Applied Theatre and Drama Education from Griffith University and BSc (Hons) in Psychology from The University of Nottingham. He was full-time Actor/Tutor at Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. Besides, he has also worked with over 30 educational, social welfare and non-profit organisations, including Heifer Hong Kong, UNICEF Hong Kong and WWF Hong Kong in educational programmes. Participants of these programmes range from pupils at kindergartens to adults at all levels.

He is now an adjudicator for the Hong Kong School Drama Festival, freelance drama educator, voice-over artist and actor.

- Approx 2 hours long
- Suitable for ages 8 or above
- In Cantonese

- To avoid disturbance, latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable time during the workshop
- AFTEC reserves the right to postpone, cancel, modify the programme format or substitute artists.
- The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region