Professor Benny Lim

Cultural Practices and Sustainability (East and Southeast Asia)

📅 8 November 2025 (Saturday)

🕛 1130 - 1300

Professor Benny Lim is an Associate Professor of Practice in Cultural Management and Director of the MA in Cultural Management Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He has served in governance and advisory roles for various arts organisations. He is a member of the Programme Sub-committee of The TENG Company in Singapore and the Advisory Board of the University Arts Centre, CUHK Shenzhen. In 2023, he was appointed by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as Arts Advisor (Arts Administration) and Examiner (Drama) for a three-year term. He has also had collaborations with Macao, including developing the first certificate programme in Performing Arts Events Management for the Institute of Tourism Studies (now Macao University of Tourism) in 2015, which ran in 2016 and 2017. He was a trainer for the Macao Fringe Festival 2022 and was involved in selecting programmes for the 2025 edition. Since 2001, Benny has worked as producer and director on numerous original theatre productions and arts festivals, often addressing issues affecting marginalised communities. In 2021, he initiated the ‘Art and Aging’ project and has since launched a series of drama workshops and developing a Cantonese-language Arts Resource Hub for seniors.

Organisation Description

The MA in Cultural Management (MACM) programme is the leading postgraduate programme in cultural management in Hong Kong. Through an open, flexible, theoretically grounded curriculum including practical fieldwork experience, students are taught to meet the challenging demands of our ever-changing cultural and creative industries. A core value of the MACM programme is the act of cultural mediation that touches on issues such as professional ethics, cultural rights, cultural identity, and the social dynamics within cultural representation. Students learn to interpret, define, communicate, and advocate for the dignity, values and cultural rights of all members of society. The Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS) serves as a platform for the promotion of research activities in the field of cultural studies. Both the MACM programme and CCS are housed within the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Learn More:

https://www2.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/macum/introduction

https://ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/main/