It's not an easy time for all of us global citizens. It's a challenging time for us theatre teachers and academies to sustain teaching and learning activities for our students. It’s especially challenging for us teachers to conduct quality teaching and arrange assessment through new mediums while taking care of our vulnerable families and communities, not to mention our own selves.

When most of the academies switched to online teaching and learning platforms like Zoom, Webex or Google classroom, are there methodologies and experiences that could be shared and enabling a global learning and unlearning for us theatre teachers?

While enjoying all the free online programmes generously offered by world renowned theatre companies, is virtual activities the solution to theatre teaching and learning in view of the pandemic?

We believe theatre art shall not be confined by the pandemic. Together we shall continue to live a theatre life with compassion. Together we shall create theatre art with love. Together we shall overcome with joy.

Following the Global Dialogue with theatre artists on World Theatre Day 2020, The School of Drama, HKAPA and Hong Kong Dramatists are hosting an online global dialogue with theatre academies to connect theatre educators around the world, to share the situation of theatre academies in different countries, to support each other in solidarity, and to look forward to what theatre teaching and learning means to us human and nature.

Theatre educators from every corner of the world are all welcome to join the dialogue. Please let us know a bit of yourself and we shall send you the link to the dialogue. Let's connect!

POON Wai-Sum
Dean of School of Drama
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts