Open Public Forum – West Kowloon Cultural District “How We Can Make A Success Of It”

Date: 18 April 2009
Venue: The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

A two-session open public forum on the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD), which was organized and moderated by Sir David Tang Wing-cheung, was held at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Art on 18th April 2009. The forum, which was partly sponsored by the Home Affairs Bureau, invited an expert panel of eight top executives from world-renowned performing arts venues and museums to share views and answer questions on how to make the West Kowloon Cultural District a success. It also attracted various local artists and the general public to participate and share their views in the forum.

Expert Panel Members:

• Sir Clive Gillinson - Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall
  
  
• Sir Nicholas Serota - Director of Tate, London
  
  
• Julia Peyton-Jones - Director of the Serpentine Gallery, London
  
  
• Tom Krens - Director of Guggenheim Museums
  
  
• Mark Jones - Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
  
  
• Charles Saumarez Smith - Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts
  
  
• Michael Lynch - Director of the South Bank Centre, London
  
  
• Tim McFarlane, Managing Director of The Really Useful Company, Asia Pacific

Video & Transcripts - Open Public Forum “How we can make a success of it”

Cultural expert panel members, moderated by Sir David Tang Wing-cheung, share views on ways to make the West Kowloon Cultural District a success.

Audience at the Forum

(From left) Charles Saumarez Smith – Chief Executive of Royal Academy of Arts, Tom Krens, Director of Guggenheim Museums, Tim McFarlane, Managing Director of The Really Useful Company, Asia Pacific, Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of Serpentine Gallery, Sir David Tang Wing-cheung (moderator), Sir Clive Gillinson – Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, Mark Jones – Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum