Tea House Student Matinees: 2024–2025

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Tea House Student Matinees get a fresh look in academic year 2023–2024 with a new programme that allows students to explore the art of xiqu and traditional Chinese culture in a stimulating, inter-disciplinary way. Through narrated performances, traditional Cantonese music demonstrations, interactive facilitator-led discussion sessions and post-performance workshops, students experience the beauty of xiqu, develop positive values and reflect on their relevance to daily life. The programme is extended to primary students for the first time. Group applications are welcome from local primary and secondary schools.

To support further teaching and learning activities in schools, the programme includes teacher training workshops and a rich variety of digital learning materials* such as learning packs, game-based learning modules and teaching slides.

To help students apply the knowledge and lessons learned from the programme to their daily life, selected primary and secondary schools will be invited as partners to co-develop creative curricula that incorporate Cantonese opera elements into different subjects. Teachers and young Cantonese opera practitioners will be paired up to co-create teaching and learning experiences that are tailor-made for each school.

Programme for October–December 2024

Primary School Version
Date:
2 October 2024 (Wednesday)
20 November 2024 (Wednesday)
21 November 2024 (Thursday)
11 December 2024 (Wednesday)

Time:
2:30pm–5:15pm (includes the performance and post-performance workshop)

Secondary School Version
Date:
9 October 2024 (Wednesday)
10 October 2024 (Thursday)
13 November 2024 (Wednesday)
14 November 2024 (Thursday)
12 December 2024 (Thursday)

Time:
2:30pm–5:30pm (includes the performance and post-performance workshop)