Community Oral History Theatre Project

After the “Community Oral History Project: Sham Shui Po District” in 2009, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department continues co-organizing the “Community Oral History Theatre Project” with performing arts and district institutions in the form of partnership collaboration.

Through organizing a series of workshops, the project aims at gathering the personal experiences and valuable recollections of the elderly in certain districts and writing scripts with the oral information so collected, providing an opportunity for the elderly to act out their stories on stage themselves.  The project also aims to promote arts and culture in the community and encourage active participation in arts and cultural activities by the elderly.  It is also hoped that young people will be able to gain an understanding from these performances by elderly people of how the older generation grew up, and reflect on their own lives as a result.

Districts participated or in participation in the project -

Sham Shui Po District (October 2009 – May 2012)

Kwun Tong District (October 2011 – January 2014)

Islands District (Tai O) (March 2013 – November 2014)

Eastern District (April 2014 – January 2016)

Sha Tin District (October 2015 – April 2017)

Central and Western District (February 2017 – January 2019)

Sai Kung District (July 2018 – May 2021)

Kowloon City District (December 2019 – September 2022)