Vision & Mission
The arts are far more powerful and potent than meets the eye. Our vision is to inspire young people and everyone to engage their minds, passions and spirits in living a full, creative and multi perspective life. The approach is through quality arts-in-education experiences and meaningful encounters with diverse collaborative partners.
About Us
The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection
The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection (AFTEC) is the pioneer and specialist in creative learning and teaching in Hong Kong. As an award-winning bilingual Learning Theatre™, AFTEC is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of young people and creative learning professionals. We believe in the power of the arts to inspire, motivate, and transform, and use an integrated arts-in-education approach to enhance education and encourage creative learning. Our acronym A.F.T.E.C. also stands for Arts For Transformative Educational Change.
Established in 2008 as a registered charity, we have reached over 283,000 audience members and participants through our diverse cross-disciplinary projects. Since 2009, we have been the Venue Partner of the Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre under the LCSD Venue Partnership Scheme. AFTEC was a recipient of HK Arts Development Council’s Award for Arts Education 2014 & 2017, and Arts Promotion 2020, as well as a two-time recipient of the Springboard Grant under the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme (2015 & 2017) and a grantee of Art Development Matching Grants Scheme (2021-2024) of the HKSAR Government. AFTEC pioneered Relaxed Theatre and the performing arts module of Medical Humanities developing STEAM as a teaching & learning approach.
Board of Directors
Co-Chairpersons
Mrs Marissa Fung Shaw
Honorary Advisor
Directors
AFTEC TEAM
Artistic Director | Dr Vicki Ooi |
Chief Executive Officer | Lynn Yau |
Admin & Finance | |
Accountant | James Wong |
Office Clerk | Panny Chan |
Honorary Legal Advisor | Gabriela Kennedy |
Creative Catalysts | |
Director of Teaching and Learning | Jenny Ng |
Deputy Director of Creative Catalysts | Ebona Yeung |
Head of Administration | Calvin Co |
Project Manager | Eleanor Lam |
Project Manager | Vivien Lee |
Senior Project Officer | Cat Lai |
Senior Project Officer | Maggie Xiang |
Project Officer | Melody Chan |
Project Officer | Jodie Fong |
Project Officer | Dara Ho |
Marketing | |
Assistant Marketing & Publicity Manager | Tammy Poon |
Marketing & Publicity Officer | Wilkins Cheng |