Day 1 Schedule

Day One

Time

Activity

0930hr

Registration and Reception

1000hr

Opening Session

1015hr

Keynote Lecture 1 and Q&A

Theory and Method of the Empowerment of Cultural Industries in Rural Revitalization of China

XIANG Yong, Professor, School of Arts, Peking University (Mainland China)

Prof. XIANG Yong

Xiang Yong is a Professor of the School of Arts at Peking University (SAPKU) and Dean of the Institute for Cultural Industries at Peking University (ICIPKU), where he is leader of Cultural Economics and Creative Management Project. He joined the PKU cultural industries research group in 2003. He taught the courses, Studies on the Management of Creativity, Strategy and Management of Culture Industries etc. at School of Arts, PKU. His academic interest is focusing on cultural & creative industries, management of the art, culture and creativity, and human resource development & management. Prof. Xiang has visited some universities in USA, UK, Italy, Australia, Japan, South Korea in these years. He was Academic Visitor, Judge Business School, the University of Cambridge (2010-2011), and visiting scholar at Faculty of Economics Marco Biagi, University of Modena, Reggio Emilia (Otc.2010), Italy. He is Honorary Visiting Professor of Business School at London Metropolitan University since 2010, Guest Professor to The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2019. He is a senior cultural and creative industries (CCIs) consultant to the governments, companies and institutions in China and UNCTAD. He was awarded one of the Top 10 Excellent Scholars of CCI in China in 2012. He is co-editors of China Cultural and Creative Industries Reports 2013, which is published by Springer, 2013 and is a joint founder of the International Association of Culture and Creative Industries (London, Hong Kong), Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development under the auspices of UNESCO Since 2019.

Keynote Lecture 2 and Q&A

Growing in a Post Pandemic World: The Case Study of The TENG Company from Singapore

Samuel WONG, Creative Director, The TENG Company (Singapore)

Dr Samuel WONG

Dr Samuel Wong is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of The TENG Company, a not-for-profit Major Grant Arts Company in Singapore. TENG is one of the largest traditional arts companies in Singapore. He spearheads the company’s Artistic Innovation, Social Impact and Industry Empowerment Divisions and re-invents the possibilities of Chinese music by fusing tradition, innovation and a unique Singaporean identity. Samuel was awarded The Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award (2009), The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Singapore Foundation’s Culture Award (2009) and Singapore Institute of Management’s Teaching Excellence Award (2012) for his work in Music and Education. In 2021, Samuel was listed in Prestige Magazine’s “40 under 40” list of Singapore’s most successful, influential and innovative young people

1230hr

Lunch

1400hr

Panel 1: Emerging Practices in Cultural Management

The survival of Hong Kong’s small and medium-sized performing arts groups in the post-epidemic period

Eirene CHEUNG, Part-time Lecturer, HKU SPACE Community College (Hong Kong)

Cheung Yuk Fan holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts in Bilingual Studies from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a part-time lecturer at HKU SPACE Community College. She has over fifteen years of experience as a financial consultant and beauty and make-up instructor. She is the chair of the Gip Percussion Ensemble’s Literary and Visual Arts Development Committee. She has been an art guide for One Month One Art.

Her personal photography work “Renew a new normal” ( 《重新·日常》) was chosen as one of the participating works in the “A Collection of Coeng-ping Images 65.”

Rethinking Theatre Values in the Post-Pandemic China

GONG Yidan, PhD Student, Taylor’s University (Malaysia)

GONG Yidan graduated from the MACM Progrmame of CUHK in 2016 is currently a PhD student of Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Her research interests are mainly on theatre audience experience, arts management and cultural policy. With her great passion to theatre, she has been worked as a theatre practitioner in Guangzhou and Chengdu for around 8 years during which she undertakes responsibilities of various roles, from producer to marketing planner. She is now the producer and vice-director of Children’s Theatre and Theatre Education Centre at the Sichuan People’s Arts Theatre and also a freelance project planner.

Research Advances in the Post-Pandemic Arts Management Education

Natalia GRINCHEVA, Program Leader, Arts Management, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (Singapore)

Dr Natalia Grincheva is a Program Leader in Arts Management at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne. She is an internationally recognised expert in innovative forms and global trends in contemporary museology, digital diplomacy and international cultural relations. Her professional engagements include her dedicated work for the International Fund for Cultural Diversity at UNESCO (2011) and International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (2011–2015), her research industry placement at ACMI X creative hub at the Australian Center for the Moving Image (2017–2019) as well as service for the international Cultural Research Network (CRN) (2018–2020).

Analysis of some key words of Art Management: public welfare, non-profit and publicity

GAO Yinggang, Professor of Art Management at School of Arts, Director of the Research Center of Public Culture, Shandong University (Mainland China)

Gao Yingang，Professor of Art Management at School of Arts，Director of the Research Center of Public Culture，Shandong University

1540hr

Tea Break

1600hr

Panel 2: Critical Reflections in Cultural Conservation and Transmission

Building Resilience and Capabilities for Arts and Culture through Innovative Practices

Jervais CHOO, Deputy Director, Organisational Design and Innovation, National Heritage Board (Singapore)

Jervais Choo is the Deputy Director for Organisational Design and Innovation (ODI), and currently heads the Innovation Programme office at the National Heritage Board. The division is responsible for business and digital transformation through creative solutioning to identify and incubate innovative solutions for the heritage sector, and explores new and frontier technologies and works with organisations, companies and agencies to explore the application of digital concierge/AI-chatbot solutions for museum experiences, autonomous robotics/IoT, and explorations in virtual and immersive environments.

Jervais founded the DigiMuse programme in 2017, an initiative aimed at building a vibrant cultural sector that is invested in digital innovation and has held other portfolios in the past decade including Programme Director for the Singapore Night Festival and the Singapore Heritage Festival, and Deputy Director of the National Museum of Singapore.

Menempa Tari Tradisi: Preservation and Transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Traditional Malaysian Dances

Joseph GONZALES, Professor, School of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Hong Kong）

Professor at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts since 2016, and Dean of Dance at the National Arts Academy, Malaysia (1998-2015). He has performed/choreographed professionally in multiple genres of dance and theatre since 1981 including the UK National Tour/West End The King and I, Kuala Lumpur Dance Theatre and St. Moritz Gold Band in Malaysia. He is a researcher, author, choreographer, curator and festival director. He held office as Co-Chair of Asian Dance Committee, South Korea; President of MyDance Alliance; SEA Vice President for World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific. He is Founder/Artistic Director of ASK Dance Company (est. 2011).

Nature and Heritage of Death Preservation: Exploring Sustainable Synergies in Post-Pandemic Singapore

David OCON & YOUNG Wei Ping, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (Singapore)

Dr David Ocón is an interdisciplinary cultural historian and anthropologist who works on Asian cultural heritage’s intersections with preservation, tourism, digitalisation, nature, gastronomy, and sustainability. He also analyses cultural diplomacy and cooperation in the Asian region, particularly between China, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN countries.

David has twenty years of experience in the arts, culture, and heritage sectors. As a practitioner, he led departments at organisations such as the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF, Singapore), ENCATC (Belgium), and Cervantes Institute (Beijing, China), where he was the head of culture.

David is currently an Assistant Professor at Singapore Management University’s School of Social Sciences, where he teaches and researches Culture and Heritage Management, Cultural Diplomacy in Asia, Urban Cultural Anthropology, Arts Marketing, and Art, Culture and Society. He is also a visiting faculty at University of Barcelona’s International Cultural Cooperation and Management Postgraduate Programme and has previously worked

David regularly provides strategic advice and support for Kong and James Cook University. cultural organisations worldwide.

YOUNG Wei Ping is an independent researcher and archaeologist with research interests in environmental archaeology, food histories, sustainability, and how natural and cultural systems intersect.

She is currently a Research Assistant for the Singapore Management University, investigating sustainable conservation approaches to death spaces in Asia. As a cultural heritage practitioner, she has supported historical and archaeological work in Singapore through the ISEAS -Yusof Ishak Institute and the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), and has participated in fieldwork in the Southeast Asian region and abroad.

Open Ends’ as Making Art Public in Singapore

Adrian TAN, Co-founder, The Artists Company (Singapore)

An artist and co-founder of ‘The Artists Company’ (TAC), Adrian’s research centres on art history with a focus on urban, museum and cultural studies. His PhD thesis (2023) at NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) argued for a critical examination of acts of performativity, exhibitions and itinerant art events taking place in public space as ‘operations’ that disrupted and renewed the role of artists in society. Adrian holds adjunct appointments at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of Arts Singapore; and NTU’s School of Humanities where he is course coordinator for ‘Cities, Bodies, Memories, Art, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Singapore’.

1745hr

End of Day One