*本環節以英文進行，不設傳譯服務。
*Conducted in English, no simultaneous interpretation service will be provided.
Workshop 1
| Finding peace through interactive community music-making
| Kumi Masunaga - Drum Jam HK
15:00 - 15:50, October 31st
Virtual events may be limited but our imagination is infinite. Facilitated drum circles with an intention to make connections opens doors to engage individuals and build community – even ONLINE! In this 30-min interactive session, you will learn some wellness practices that are based on HealthRHYTHMS, evidence-based group drumming to boost your immune system, uplift your mood and find peace within. Please have a musical instrument of your choice including a box or a bucket, and a scarf/handkerchief of any colour, and turn your video on for this fun-packed, experiential programme!
Kumi MASUNAGA Japan/Hong Kong
Percussionist, Community Music Facilitator and Educator
Music, especially rhythmical music is simply defined as sounds organized in time. We are biologically, neurologically and mentally connected to rhythm. In this fun-packed workshop-style presentation, Kumi Masunaga, Japanese percussionist and community drum circle facilitator based in Hong Kong, uses some of her large collection of drums and world percussion instruments to demonstrate key elements to creating a successful group music-making. The workshop allows participants to use the key elements in a supportive learning environment. The participants will experience an effortless, informal way to play music, a state of flow and collaborative creativity that is accessible, inclusive and sounds really great.
Workshop 2
| The role of community music in social service
| Aki Chan
15:00 - 15:50, November 7th
Make a difference – community music in social services in Hong Kong This workshop aims to share my experiences in applying community music with clientele in different social services in Hong Kong and to let participants experience some of the process.
The key features are as follow:
1. How I create music with different clientele?
1.1) Warm up process
1.2) Safe space development
1.3) Characteristics of Cantonese
1.4) Characteristics of poem in Chinese
2. How were the experiences working with different clients? What impact does it make?
2.1) Single parent
2.2) Ethnic minority children
3. How I use music as a means for discussion
3.1) What is a happy family?
3.2) What is an ideal retired life?
Chan Kai Pong, Aki (BSSc, RSW, HK, PTG, USA) Playback Theatre Graduate from Centre for Playback Theatre (USA), Registered Social Worker in Hong Kong, Founder and Director of Free Association Limited, CASH member, Founder of Band Union. Former Centre in charge of Applied Drama Centre and Community Creativity Learning Centre, BGCA, to promote integration between human services and arts. Recently, work with different schools, NGOs and Corporations, create community music with different groups of people, e.g. single parent, domestic violence survivor, children and family, elderly people and ethnic minority group. Producer of an album《In between ocean and river》, to promote conservation of Fishermen’s Ballads. Aki has been actively participated in the field as director, scriptwriter, actor, MC, narrator, puppeteer, composer, musician, arranger and producer, etc.
Workshop 3
Giving ourselves the permission to give and receive: Welcoming wellbeing
| Charulatha Mani
15:00 - 15:50, November 14th
AKI CHAN
Hong Kong
Social Worker
Charulatha Mani shares her learning experience as she works with women from many cultures in an antenatal context in Brisbane where music and singing are combined with the development of health and wellbeing. A Carnatic singer from Chennai, India, Charu has discovered the joy of sharing her skills as a singer, listener and communicator in this community music context where lullabies allow the women to share their culture, their language and their unique voices. ‘When we ask for songs, they just sing and I listen with all my heart”. In this workshop Charu will get you singing songs from India, Somalia, Burma, and Kenya, will ask you to get creative through sharing words and feelings, and will finally unpack her learning journey thus far.
She notes: "Through this workshop I will try to slow down those moments between which a song is shared by a participant for the first time in their language, and it is sung by the group, together. We can together try to reflect on the processes and politics of listening, repeating, learning, teaching, and ownership, and the capacities musical and linguistic that are required in the immediacy of that demand.”
Workshop 4
| Nga Taonga Puoro (Maori Musical Instruments)
| Warren Warbrick
15:00 - 15:50, November 21st
Dr Charulatha Mani is a singer /researcher woman of colour from Chennai, India, and is currently based in Brisbane, Queensland. Her work examines the role of music in complex socio-cultural contexts. Her fields of interest include aesthetics, critical race theory, interpretivist philosophy, and decolonised ontologies. She performs, lectures, writes, and leads research initiatives involving marginalised communities. She is currently Centre Manager at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University.
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NGA TAONGA PUORO (MAORI MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS) Presented by Warren Warbrick, New Zealand Maori (Rangitāne ki Manawatū, Te Arawa)
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Warren has led demonstrations and workshops in ngā taonga pūoro around New Zealand over the past 20 years. In 2018, he led demos in Colombia and Scotland; as a participant of the Medellin International Poetry Festival (by invitation) and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as part of Toi Warbrick’s run of 'KONO, Song Cycle of a New Town'. A member of the peak Māori musical instrument research group, Haumanu, since the mid-1990s, Warren is a renowned maker of ngā taonga pūoro and his workshop is an introduction to key instruments from the various whanau (families) of instruments. All the instruments presented in the workshop are hand-made by Warren. He will give narratives and demonstrate the playing of: Tumutumu (2), Nguru, Koauau (2), Pūtorino, Pūtatara, Porotiti, and Pūkaea (2). The workshop will begin with a brief background on the traditional practice and the modern revival of ngā taonga pūoro.
Warren Warbrick
New Zealand
Performer
A member of the peak Māori musical instrument research group, Haumanu, for thirty years, Warren is a renowned maker of ngā taonga pūoro and one of approx. 100 living Māori artists of all artforms entitled to use the Toi Iho trademark. His work is held in public and private collections around the world, including the National Museum of Scotland. Warren is Tohunga Whakairo (expert carvers) for his iwi (tribe) and undertakes a range of cultural practice. In 2018, Warren represented New Zealand at the Medellín International Poetry Festival, Colombia. He has performed with the NZ String Quartet, Voices NZ Chamber Choir, and is a member of Toi Warbrick.