Talk
Art Chat

1.Round: What is German Theater?

Fri, 03.03.2023
7:30 PM - 21:00 Goethe-Institut Hongkong Library

Goethe-Institut Hongkong has been working closely with various independent bookshops in the recent years. By hosting cultural events inside the Goethe-Institut as well as at the bookshops located in different parts of Hong Kong, we hope to reach out a broader community.

Starting this March, we will be collaborating with Bookorner and Mi Spacium Culture, two local cultural units promoting arts and literature, in hosting a series of “Art Chat” at the Goethe-Library.

Admission fee will be charged for this series of event, in order to support local independent cultural units.

To kick start the series, Uncle Salt from “Corrupt the Youth” will be speaking with Yan Pat-to about contemporary German Theater on 3rd March (Friday).

Date: 03.03.2023 (Fri)
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Library, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Moderator: Uncle Salt (Corrupt the Youth)
Guest speaker: Yan Pat-to
Language: Cantonese
Admission fee: HK$100
Registration: www.art-mate.net

About the Guest Speaker:

Active in Hong Kong and German Theatre. Playwright, Director, Educator. Artistic Director of Reframe Theatre. House Author of Germany Nationatheater Mannheim (2021-2022 Theatre season).

Graduated from the University of Hong Kong, majoring in English Literature; the Chinese University of Hong Kong, MA in Sociology; Royal Holloway, University of London, MA in Playwriting.

His play in English A Concise History of future China is selected by 2016 Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt as one of the five theatre works presented. It is the first ethnic Chinese play ever selected. His play in Cantonese White Blaze of the morning is awarded Best Play, the 8th Hong Kong Theatre Libre. Six of his plays were translated into German and performed. His works were commissioned or invited by the following institutions: Munich Biennale - New Music Festival, Mannheimer Sommer Festival, Munich Residenztheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Stadttheater Giessen, Theater Freiburg, Staatsschauspiel Saarbrücken, Lubeck Theater,  Landestheater Linz, Motreal CINARS Biennale Official Programme, Swedish Radio, South Korea Asia Playwright Festival, Taiwan Quanta Arts Foundation, Hong Kong New Vision Festival, International Arts Carnival, Tai Kwun, Fringe Club, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and On & On Theatre Workshop, etc.   

His recent works include Posthuman Condition, The Damned And The Saved, A Poem In Jail, Happily Ever After Nuclear Explosion, Goldfish Of Berlin, After The Flood Floods, Stream Of Consciousness, The Year Of Jin Feng, How To Present Lovelife of Hong Kongers to Aliens, etc.

Suhrkamp Theater Verlag represents the copyright of some of his plays.

About the Moderator:
Yeung Chun-yin, known as Uncle Salt, graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong and the Department of Philosophy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He then finished his PhD study at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the King's College London. He is now teaching philosophy and critical thinking courses at various tertiary institutions. In 2016, he founded "Corrupt the Youth" with his comrades, and hosted a series of TV Talk Show "Philosophy Night" on RTHK 31, which aim to introduce philosophy to the general public.