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23rd February, 2013 Hong Kong International Schools Black Box Theatre

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5125 0721 ndoto.hk@gmail.com

Roy Horan
Founder of Innovea Ltd., was a key developer of the Multimedia Innovation Centre at HK PolyUs School of Design. He specializes in enhancing and assessing creativity/innovation potential and achievement. Roy has conducted research into the neuropsychology of creative thinking and is published in the Encyclopedia of Creativity and the Creativity Research Journal. He designed a unique system for measuring creativity, based on the concept of creative momentum. His neuroscientic work on creative contemplation indicates that complex creative problems are solved in a relaxed, alert mental environment similar to meditation. Roy developed new meditation techniques which s u p p o r t c re a t i v e e n d e a v o r t h ro u g h t h e transcendence and integration of information. Prior to the PolyU, Roy worked, for 20 years, in Hong Kongs lm/video/ television industries. He has acted in both Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee movies. In 2010, he was a Key-Speaker at the TEDx Pearl River Delta Conference on THE HEART OF CREATIVITY.

Stephen Chung
Secrettourhk

Jami Gong
TakeOut Comedy

Stephen Chung graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Journalism. During university, he has been on exchange to Finland where he aroused the keen interest of traveling and meeting new people. Before starting up the organization, he worked in advertising agencies. Their vocational background fosters his new ideas generated towards tourism, which brings clashes to this conventional industry. Secret Tour HK Secrettourhk was founded in 2011, based in Hong Kong. It is an innovative and alternative organization, which offers various tours or events to individuals, schools, companies, and organizations. Target participants include both locals and expats. The services offered are aimed at showing secret spots and hidden stories of Hong Kong, hoping to display something non-stereotypical and essential of the dwellers livelihood. Moreover, interactions between people are especially highlighted as it is hoped to evoke emotions for the city eventually.

Founder of TakeOut Comedy and The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong. From New York City, he has performed all over the USA and has appeared on Late Night with Conan OBrien. After two years of research, he took the leap of faith and moved to HK to open The TakeOut Comedy Club HK, The FIRST Fulltime Comedy Club in Asia, where there are regular English and Chinese standup comedy shows, Improv shows with Peoples Liberation Improv (HKs ONLY regular performing Improv Troupe), and regularly ies in professional American comedians. Jami also conducts Standup Comedy workshops and does corporate training using standup comedy. He produces all the TakeOut Comedy events including The Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival every October. Jami says its amazing to hit an untapped market, to create a whole new comedy scene from scratch and to discover new talent bringing more laughter to HK and beyond!
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ndoto.con HK
creativity. innovation. change.

Date Where

23rd February, 2013 Hong Kong International Schools Black Box Theatre

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5125 0721 ndoto.hk@gmail.com

Dr. Marty Schmidt and Mike Kersten HKIS teachers Marty Schmidt and Mike Kersten will take you behind the scenes to understand the unique web of teacher and student interactions with local issues and global connections that come together to form the curriculum of Humanities I in Action, a course which aims to develop social conscience in students. Using footage and interviews shot during the course, this video will show the genesis, planning, and implementation of innovative lessons that have inspired many students in the course.

Anita Lam and Margaret Lok

Woof

Howard McCrary
Howard McCrary is a Grammy Nominee, recipient of The ASCAP Duke Ellington Award, has recorded and worked with such artist as Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Nina Simone, Ringo Starr, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Julio Iglesias to mention a few. He has also appeared in such movies as Tom Hanks Lady Killers and composed and performed with Jose Carreras and The Beijing Orchestra for China's Green Peace, Hear My Plea. He has also worked with Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer on the lm The Power Of One, and done production work with teen idol Jennifer Love Hewitt, soul diva Sandra St. Victor, gospel great Helen Baylor and successful R&B group Changing Faces. As well as composed the rst song in the world to be sung by one million VStar Children called Change The World. He has also performed consecutively for the past three years for the United Nations Vesak World Peace Day from Hanoi, Vietnam to Sydney, Australia. Along with his World Peace For Life Partner Ms. Ivy Chan, they hope to inspire others through music and sharing the many benets of meditation on a daily basis and how it can produce inner peace which can lead ultimately to World Peace. He has now made his home in Hong Kong.
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Chiengora is a type of wool made out of dog hair rst used many centuries ago by the Europeans and the Mayans. Social enterprise Woof aims to raise human compassion for and change attitudes towards animals through the sales of chiengora accessories. Also, through its Wooferine canine animal welfare educational projects, Woof hopes to raise awareness among the public of the plight of animals as well as the need to respect all life. Woof! was founded by PolyU MDes Strategies student Anita Lam and graduate Margaret Lok. The Woof project took the HKSEC 2011 Championship as well as the Award for Best presentation.

ndoto.con HK
creativity. innovation. change.

Date Where

23rd February, 2013 Hong Kong International Schools Black Box Theatre

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5125 0721 ndoto.hk@gmail.com

Kris Sawatzky

Kacey Wong
Kacey Wong experimental art project investigates the poetics of space between men and their living environment. Kacey was born in Hong Kong in 1970. He was the winner of Best Artist Award in 2010, Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award given by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2003. Kacey studied architecture in Cornell University and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Chelsea School of Art and Design and Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is now an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universitys Environment and Interior Design Discipline. Kacey curated many art exhibitions exploring issues of space and city: Home (1999), Personal Skyscraper (2000), City Space (2001), & Drift City (2001, 2002, 2010) and exhibited both local and internationally. Kacey started his Drift City photo series since year 2000, dressing up as a skyscraper traveling from cities to cities in search for utopia and published the photo book Drift City 10 Years (2010). His mobile home tricycle project Wandering Homes was selected to be feature at the 2008 Venice Architectural Biennale and his oating house Paddling Home that performed on Victoria Harbour was the star feature in 2010s Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture exhibition.

Mike Hill and Jay Forster

Clockenap Jay Forster As co-founder of Clockenap Music & Arts Festival, Jay curates the visual art installations and directs the festival branding. In its sixth year, As the rst annual event at the West Kowloon Cultural District, Clockenap is the largest event of its kind in Hong Kong, with 20,000 people attending in 2012. Robot Magazine, founded by Jay, hit the streets of Hong Kong in 2004 - providing a much needed dose of alternative urban insight and off the wall fashion photography - shot and directed by Jay. In response to the URAs outdated plan to redevelop Hong Kongs oldest outdoor street market, situated at Graham Street and Peel Street, Jay conceived and produced High&Dry, an exhibition celebrating this signicant aspect of Hong Kongs heritage. With over 50 local artists taking part, the exhibition attracted over 4,000 visitors over a two-month period. Jay is also a working artist.
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Party With A Purpose

Party With A Purpose, a non-prot society for all conscious-minded party animals, was created in Hong Kong, April 2011, to organize nightlife party fundraisers that help stimulate awareness for nonprot ocean conservation charities. Founder and part-time DJ/Producer, Kris Sawatzky, developed the concept from his love of the oceans and of house music. "The inspiration came after watching the documentaries The Cove, Sharkwater and The End of The Line... I thought how cool it would be to throw a fundraiser party where everything from the venue through to the website is provided by local businesses and artists who believe that protecting ocean ecology is not just a conservation issue, but a humanitarian one as well." Party With A Purpose presented Oceans 12, its second annual ocean awareness fundraiser event June this year, shedding light on the plastic vortex, unsustainable shing, and cetacean slaughter.

ndoto.con HK
creativity. innovation. change.

Date Where

23rd February, 2013 Hong Kong International Schools Black Box Theatre

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Nury Vittachi

Bobsy Gaia
Mana!
Born Beirut, Lebanon. Social eco-entrepreneur, yogi, campaigner and public speakerbottom line is this: to be living a vocation that is socially responsible, ecologically conscious and of service to humanity & the planet. Pioneering socially responsible business in Hong Kong since 1992. Founded Gaia Eco fashion-design company 1993...co-founded Able Charity 1994 ...cofounded the Bookworm Caf 1997...on going planting of the Lamma Forest since 1997...co-founded Positive News HK 2004...co-founded Life Caf 2004...founder Save the Human! Dont eat the planet! Campaign 2008. Founder of Mana! Fast Slow Food 2012...currently working towards creating Babylon! The Gathering of the Tribe - An inspired caf. Lounge & community...Motto: Live the change that is already happening in the world today.

Charlotte and Robin Hwang

Foodlink Charlotte Hwang:
Charlotte returned to Hong Kong from Boston University in 2008 and started thinking of ways to help her mother with Foodlink Foundation, which has been dormant since the SARS epidemic in 2002. She started reheating leftover foods from banquets and buffets at home and delivering them door to door. Many improvements have happened since, and she now has the job of Fundraising Director, helping Foodlink grow in its name, raise funding for our staff and daily operations, and raise awareness of the food waste situation in Hong Kong. At the same time Charlotte runs a jewelry and accessories store based out of Central called The9thMuse, featuring local and international brands, some with proceeds that benet Foodlink, WWF and self-sustainable communities in Colombia.

When novelist Nury Vittachi was born on the island of Ceylon in 1958, civil war broke out. He claims the two facts are not connected. But people who know him are not so sure. Nury is famed for stirring up trouble, and this led him to become one of Asias best known journalists. He writes between four and six columns a week, often provocative and funny, printed in many countries. His MrJam.org website is popular regionwide. He has written many books for major publishers, which are available in many languages around the world. His latest book, The Curious Diary of Mr Jam, relates his eye-opening experiences in travelling around Asia trying to make people laugh.

Robin Hwang:
Robin joined Foodlink Foundation Limited in 2010. As Executive Director, she is responsible for overseeing the strategic mission and growth of Foodlink as well as seeking the support of sponsors and donors in order to uphold Foodlink's charitable objectives. Aside from volunteering at Foodlink Foundation, Robin works in the real estate market after having received her B.A. from Williams College and her M.Sc. in Real Estate Investment and Finance from The University of Hong Kong.
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