*本環節以英文進行，不設傳譯服務。
*Conducted in English, no simultaneous interpretation service will be provided.
Round Table 1
| Cultural Appropriation & Cultural Protocols
15:00 - 15:50, October 31st
Round Table 2
| Where are the resources of hope today that point to a Good Living future?
15:00 - 15:50, November 7th
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What is "Good Living”? In Portuguese it says "Bon Vivo”and it is an indigenous Latin American concept that has been made contemporary signifying a sustainable reciprocal relationship between species - between mother nature and human beings. Dan Baron holds a set of interviews with cultural activists in Taiwan and Brazil that shows how this work and focus spreads across the world. Dan has been working in Hong Kong at various times over the last 15 years and has a strong partnership with CCCD.
Dan Baron Cohen is a community performance educator and eco-cultural activist of Welsh-Quebecois origin, living in the Brazilian Amazonian city of Marabá. After doctoral research in Oxford University, Dan collaborated with young people in post-industrial and conflicted communities at risk in northern England, South Wales and the North of Ireland. In 1998, a visiting professorship launched collaborations with landless, indigenous, trade-union and university communities across Brazil. His past 22 years have been dedicated to developing 'transformance pedagogies' in African, Asian, American and European communities. Since 2008, Dan has developed cultural action, citizen security, solar power, literacy circles and medicinal plant gardens in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco, recycling ing awards into scholarships for nurturing young performance education activists and collectives. Dan contributed to the Latin America Arts for Transformation Network and World Social Forum (2001-12). and presided the International Drama-Education Association and World Alliance for Arts Education (2006-10).
Round Table 3
| Early career researcher sharing hub
15:00 - 15:50, November 14th
Early career researcher sharing hub
The early career researcher sharing hub aims to facilitate collaboration between practitioners and early career researchers who are interested in community music practice. The discussion aims to encourage and promote multidisciplinary interaction, broadening the scope of experience and to enhance opportunities for local researchers. During the session,Early Career Researchers Gigi Lam, Magdalena Tang, Melody Chan; Music Therapist Michelle Tsang and Diana Chan will share their insights on research and practice landscape of community music development in Hong Kong.
Getting It Right: discussing cultural appropriation and cultural protocols Cultural Appropriation & Cultural Protocols Cultural appropriation can be understood as the surface level consumption of elements of one culture by another. It is using culturally rich practices out of context and without lived understanding, which can lead to some disastrous consequences for both parties. Another important thing to consider here is the use of these elements to make money for the appropriator. The commodification of culture. From festival wear, to sampling of sacred music and use of language in the creation of music and teaching through music education. First Nations and diverse communities have talked about the blurred lines between appropriation vs appreciation but who has the experience and leadership to make the final call on what is culturally relevant or insensitive? The presenters will unpack some of the current ideas around cultural appropriation and cultural protocols to consider in the context of formal and informal education. This discussion will look into ways on how we can respectfully and ethically acknowledge complicated histories when creating our work and teaching others.
Round Table 4
| Imagine Together
15:00 - 15:50, November 21st
In this session we'll explore how creativity, play, and imagination are resources for conjuring, imagining, and dwelling temporarily in alternative worlds. Developmentally, we play as children to make sense of our experiences and to try and connect things - to imagine and exist in a world that we have greater control in, in order to build the skills for living in (and changing) the real world. In our adult lives these same skills can help us to cope with the present hardship and precarity by providing tools for both imagining an alternative world, and getting to temporarily exist within that world. According to eminent musicologist Christopher Small, dance and music exist as ways for humans to dwell temporarily in a world of 'right' or ideal relationships. When we music, we bring this world, and the values we value within it, into existence temporarily, in order to experience it, learn from it, and in time transfer that learning to the actual world. In this way, music and arts engagement can provide us with tools for changing our world. From peacebuilding to displacement/resettlement, community music programs put the call for change into musical form, inviting others to imagine with you.