Career Advice Career counselling, advice and guidance

Search Article

Tag: Arts

VSA makes music beautiful

Kraig Sackmann, head of music at Victoria Shanghai Academy (VSA), began his teaching career in New York. It had always been his passion to work with students and he believed he was capable of more than just classroom teaching, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

A different direction

Adam Wong is credited with changing the course of Hong Kong cinema, but he had to go to the US to appreciate his home’s film culture, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Teacher gives top performance

Rye Bautista, senior teacher for performing arts at Kids’ Gallery, was a professional dance artist and stage actor in the Philippines before coming to Hong Kong to work as a cast member at Hong Kong Disneyland, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Performing arts tutor learns to take the lead

When Mary Atkinson moved to Hong Kong six and a half years ago from the UK with her Chinese husband, she joined Kids’ Gallery because she was passionate about teaching and art, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Toying with the impossible

One Plus Partnership co-founder believes designers have to dream big to excel, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Gallery founder lets artists blossom

Many Hong Kong people consider a career in art to be an uphill battle and opt instead to put their interest aside in favour of jobs that actually ... ...

A passion for performance

Lindsey McAlister, founder and artistic director, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation (HKYAF), always knew that she was destined to do something arts-related – even though the school she went to ... ...

Spotlight on drama jobs

Teaching drama to school kids at the Faust International Youth Theatre is certainly not ... ...

Absolutely fabulous chance in drama

To be a drama educator with The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection (AFTEC) covers a lot more than teaching diction, movement and ... ...

Theatre directors must have a passion to learn

Having directed more than 120 productions in the past 30 years, Lindsey McAlister, founder of the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, sees a passion to ... ...