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Members of the public are invited to the final performance of the Schools Creative Music Showcase 2011/12, which will be held on January 20 (Friday) at the Auditorium of Sha Tin Town Hall. The performance will be held in two sessions - the primary and secondary sessions - at 3pm and 7.30pm respectively. Twenty-two outstanding school teams will stage their creative performances and compete for various awards.
The Schools Creative Music Showcase is co-organised by the Education Bureau (EDB) and the Hong Kong Composers' Guild , sponsored by the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), and supported by Youth.gov.hk of the Efficiency Unit of the Chief Secretary for Administration's Office. It aims to promote music making and stimulate students' creativity so that students will be able to express themselves through creative music and multi-media art.
Arts education can help students develop holistically in the domains of ethics, intellect, physique, social skills and aesthetics by engaging them in creating, thinking, exploring and self-learning. The annual Schools Creative Music Showcase is an initiative to promote arts education.
In the final performance, each primary school team will select one of this year's three designated sound projects, namely "A MTR Trip", "Shadow" and "The Feast of Sounds" and interpret the selected project in a performance of not more than five minutes.
The secondary school teams are divided into two groups - the Elite Group and the Premium Group. Each school team will present their original music with movement, mime or dance performances within five minutes (Elite Group) and seven minutes (Premium Group). All the creative projects this year have distinctive themes. Most of them attempt to reflect real-life problems.
The 22 creative projects were selected during a preliminary selection in early December 2011. The primary and secondary school teams participating in the final performance are as follows:
Primary
* Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Primary School
* Fuk Wing Street Government Primary School
* Fukien Secondary School Affiliated School
* G.T. (Ellen Yeung) College (Primary Section)
* PLK Riverain Primary School
* SKH Kowloon Bay Kei Lok Primary School
* SKH Wing Chun Primary School
* TWGHs Wong Yee Jar Jat Memorial Primary School
* Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Primary School
* YLPMSAA Ying Yip Primary School
Secondary (Elite Group)
* Heep Yunn School
* Methodist College
* Munsang College
* PLK Wu Chung College
* Rosaryhill School (Secondary Section)
* Shatin Pui Ying College
* St. Stephen's College
* St. Stephen's Girls' College
* Wah Yan College, Kowloon
Secondary (Premium Group)
* The HKTA Ching Chung Secondary School
* Shatin Methodist College
* SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School
Prizes including "The Best Musical Notation Prize", "The Best Music Prize", "The Best Creative Ideas Prize" and "The Best Performance Prize" will be awarded to original and outstanding creative works.
Principal Education Officers of the Curriculum Development Institute of the EDB, Mr Tam Koon-che and Dr Kwan Siu-kam, and Chairman of the Hong Kong Composers' Guild, Dr Joshua Chan, are invited to officiate at the prize presentation ceremonies.
Free tickets for the final performance are now available on a first-come-first-served basis. For enquiries, please call 3698 3533.
Ends/Thursday, January 12, 2012
Issued at HKT 15:04
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