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.

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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).

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