Mok Chiu Yu is a community cultural development worker, people’s theatre worker, performance artist and the founder of The 70’s Biweekly , Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society, Centre For Community Cultural Development (CCCD) and Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival. He is a writer, translator, part-time lecturer at Lingnan University, independent filmmaker, awardee of Achievement Award in Drama by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1999, conference organiser (including the World Congress of International Drama/Theatre & Education Association 2007 and many arts-related therapy conferences in Hong Kong), advocate of community music, playback theatre, playforward theatre, theatre of the oppressed, SAORI and inclusive arts, etc. He is editor of The Big Wind, The Black Sky (books of Asian People’s plays), 1984/1997 , Voices from Tiananmen Square , The Revolution is Dead; Long Live the Revolution , etc.
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