Mr KOK Heng Leun
hengleun@gmail.com
Artistic Director
Dramabox, Singapore

Heng Leun is the Artistic Director of Drama Box, one of few effectively bilingual theatre practitioners.

Under his helm, Drama Box has become known for its exciting theatrical works that are staged at major theatre venues and community housing estates. These works often address social issues that are relevant to Singapore society.

A well-known Arts Educator in Singapore, he has taught drama and theatre students, teachers and social workers, conducted workshops and created forum theatre workshops with Senior Citizens, Out of School Youths, Migrant Workers, Survivors of Domestic Violence, amongst others.  He is the only teacher actively promoting Drama In Education in Chinese Language Teaching in Singapore.

Heng Leun has also been invited to conduct workshops/lectures/talks internationally, in Greece, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Shanghai, India amongst others.

Heng Leun was the recipient of the Young Artist Award 2000 from the National Arts Council (NAC), Culture Award 2003 from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and 2006 Outstanding Youth Award (Honoree).

The Green Project

“The reigning economic system is founded on isolation…  The origin of the spectacle lies in the world’s loss of unity.” 

From Guy Debord, 
The Society of the Spectacle

The isolation of individuals, through production systems, economic systems and political systems, has contributed to the feeling of powerless to make changes.  This is especially felt in adults who are in the working world.

Youths are being prepared by the current education system for future isolation, trained to be a passive observer and participant in the world, and only looking at his/her own needs and gains.  But youths have abundance of energy, and instinctively want to make changes.

On the other hand, senior citizens, seen by the economic system as no longer productive, withdrew completely from any active participation.  However, life’s intelligence tells the senior citizen that something is just not right.

It is easy to ignore the intelligence of the senior citizen and privilege the energetic youth.  But I believe that perhaps we need to activate both of them, the ‘yin’ and the ‘yang’, to break away from isolations, to unite.

The youths and the seniors, have a sense of urgency, competing for time, to do more, to make changes. They can create a synergy demonstrative and affective enough to activate the working adults to break away from further isolation.

I call this project GREEN - about life, hope, and sharing with every living things, young or old, the importance of collaboration and co-existence.

GREEN is a project that engages the youth and the elderly and aim to reach out to the working adults, through artistic work, through social work, through educational work. 

郭慶亮先生

郭慶亮先生是新加坡少數精通中英雙語的劇場工作者，他也是新加坡戲劇盒(Drama Box)的藝術總監。更是新加坡唯一以中文推行戲劇及薈藝教育的工作者。他常獲邀到處演講及講學，曾獲新加坡國家藝術局年青藝術家獎(2000年)、日本商工會所頒發的文化獎(2003年)。

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