Ms Olivia Yan
Speaker
Culture and Sustainability in the Countryside
📅 8 November 2025 (Saturday)
🕛 1530 - 1630
Ms Olivia Yan is a well-rounded playwright, director, performer, educator, author, and artistic director. With over 30 years of experience in artistic creation, teaching, and theatre company management, she has created over 50 stage works and is highly recognised in the field. Her book titled BAD ACTiNG was published in 2024 which topped the bestseller at Hong Kong’s Eslite Bookstore.
In recent years, she has established “Lost Child Project HK”, a charitable organisation that advocates in youth mental health issues through performing arts. She has earned the Arts Development Award from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2021. In 2024, she launched Hong Kong's first large-scale immersive theatre experience combining nature and sustainability, the ÉLAN Eartheatre – Regain The Lost Wings, successfully fostering the innovative integration of art, natural ecology, sustainable development, and mental wellbeing.
Ms Yan is currently the Founder and Artistic Director of O Theatre Workshop and "Lost Child Project HK." She has also been appointed as a member of the Performing Arts Committee of the West Kowloon Cultural District and member of the Art Form Sub-Committee (Festivals) in Performing Arts that advise the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) of Hong Kong on programme strategies, plans, resource allocations and the support of budding and small-scale performing arts groups.
Organisation Description
"Lost Child Project HK" began in 2018 as an art initiative under O Theatre Workshop, specifically curated for youth and children. It was officially registered as a charitable organisation in 2021, with a focus on using performing arts as a bridge to nurture the mental well-being of young people and children, aiming to restore their inner values and rekindle their joy.
In 2024, with support from the Hong Kong Government's Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme the organisation collaborated with Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden as an ecological education and venue partner to host Hong Kong's first large-scale immersive theatre experience integrating nature and sustainability—the ÉLAN Eartheatre – Regain The Lost Wings. This initiative actively promotes the innovative integration of art, natural ecology, sustainable development, and mental wellbeing.
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