Jockey Club Learning Chinese Culture through Arts Tech Theatre Programme
Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and organised by the local professional arts company Zuni Icosahedron, a series of theatre and art programmes on Chinese culture is in the making.
Through immersive children arts-tech theatre performances, community workshops, capacity-building workshops, and Chinese Culture “Play to Learn” education resources, the programme engages people from every walk of life to get closer to Chinese culture and explore our traditions, aesthetics and wisdom through Arts Tech.
In 2025, it will centre its theatre and art programmes on The Forbidden City 36500, bringing everyone the “Chinese Culture: Play to Learn” experience. Stay tuned!
2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Palace Museum. Over the past 36,500 days since its establishment in 1925, the Palace Museum has transformed from an imperial palace into a cultural treasure trove, housing millions of precious artifacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its architectural design and spatial layout are imbued with the Chinese scholarly wisdom of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the Yin-Yang Five Elements, and the 24 Solar Terms. The 12 Earthly Branches – Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai – are not only used to chronicle years but also mark the 12 (two-hour) periods of a day, the 12 months of a year, and 12 Chinese compass points, reflecting the traditional Chinese understanding of space and time.
The Jockey Club Learning Chinese Culture through Arts Tech Theatre Programme – Calligraphy has won the Bronze Award (Integrated Design) at the 2024 KTK Design Award – Global Chinese Design Competition!
The list of winners was unveiled on 4 January, 2025. The Jockey Club Learning Chinese Culture through Arts Tech Theatre Programme – Calligraphy underwent two rounds of judging and finally made its mark amidst fierce competition among over 14,000 entries!
Zuni Icosahedron
Co-Artistic Directors: Danny Yung, Mathias Woo
Founded in 1982, a Hong Kong-based international experimental theatre company and a non-profit charitable cultural organisation, Zuni is one of the nine major professional performing arts companies in Hong Kong which has produced more than 260 original productions, and been invited to more than 80 cities in Europe, Asia and America for cultural exchange and performances.
Zuni’s theatre has always stayed on the cutting edge of media technology in presenting the interactive and artistic relationships between multi-media and theatre, as well as in probing the possibilities of the notion “form is content” in ’theatre space’ through experimentation and exploration.
Zuni is keen on approaching Chinese cultural traditions and theatre through the integration of Arts Tech, and developing new and sustainable strategies for performing arts and art education, articulating the creative expressions and contemporary significances of Chinese culture in various artistic expressions.
Zuni Icosahedron
zuniseason.org.hk
+852 2566 9696
+852 6023 8688
Room 203-4, 2/F., Cheong Tai Commercial Building,
60-66 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong