2017社群藝術論壇 (FCA 2017)

With the increase of the aging population in Hong Kong and many parts of the world, much attention has been paid to the social welfare and the physical well-being of senior citizens. In 2017, the annual forum on community arts of CUHK focuses on the artistic endeavor of senior citizens, not as a social welfare, but as valuable cultural potential to be valued and explored. Emphasis is given to identifying their cultural strength and potential, such as a sense of history and the accumulation of experiences, for the cultivation of a distinctive arts form with vocabularies that has not been formally recognized as art.

Since 2014, MA Programme in Cultural Management and the Centre for Cultural Studies have been organizing forums on community arts, with the mission of exploring concepts, philosophies and the skills of implementation in community arts. The forum is to facilitate knowledge exchange between academics and practitioners, strengthen academic network between local and oversea scholars in community arts, encourage active participation, and to nurture new practitioners in community arts.

人口老化是本地和全球正共同面對的處境，本地主流的討論中，長者的安置和福利是主要關注。從另一方面看，他／她們雖從勞動崗位退下來，但憑着豐富的社會經驗和人生閱歷，一眾「老友記」除接受福利和等待安置外，更應該是具有活力和文化資本的「金齡族」，退休生活可以更多姿多彩和有意義，甚至可以他／她們的藝術潛質回饋社會。有見及此，香港中文大學文化管理碩士課程及文化研究中心合辦了「社群藝術論壇：藝術老友記」，邀得來自英國、日本、台灣和本地的長者藝術策劃人，分享和討論其策劃經驗，透過與長者的接觸和觀察，探討和肯定「金齡族」的文化優勢，包括其特有歷史感和社會經驗，並由此開發一種尚未被肯定的獨特藝術形式。

文化管理碩士課程及文化研究中心於2014年開始舉辦「社群藝術論壇」，希望探索社群藝術的概念、哲學和實踐方法，並透過論壇和工作坊，促進學術界和社群藝術工作者之間交流，加強本地和海外學者在該領域的學術聯繫，並鼓勵新一代積極參與社群藝術。不久我們將會推出社群藝術的網頁，希望提供讓本地社群藝術工作者互相交流學習的平台。