Hong Kong is a highly urbanized metropolitan, yet it still preserves many traditional Chinese cultural practices. One of the most significant practices is Bamboos Shed Cantonese Opera.

Cantonese Opera is the first Hong Kong item to be inscribed in the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity. Education is an important means to inherit and further develop this intangible cultural heritage. The education reform of New Senior Secondary (NSS) curriculum offers new opportunities for integrating Cantonese opera into formal curriculum. It is time for utilizing the critical element of Bamboo shed of local Cantonese opera to transform its cultural space into a learning space, and let students learn about the local arts and culture from different dimensions.

Since 2006, the HKU Cantonese Opera Education and Research Project Team worked together with partnering schools to integrate Cantonese Opera into the secondary school curriculum and on related researches. The Bamboo Shed Cantonese Opera Education and Publication Project is one of the sub-projects, funded by the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, which guides students to explore the cultural space of Bamboo Sheds, to learn how to appreciate and treasure their own culture and traditional art form, to recognize Cantonese Opera as an intangible cultural heritage, and to fulfill their social responsibility as members of the global community to preserve their own cultural heritage by participating actively in promoting its sustainability. The Project is chosen to be one of the ten highlights in the 20th anniversary of the Trust.

The book Bamboo Shed Cantonese Opera and School Education: From Cultural Space to Learning Space (戲棚粵劇與學校教育──從文化空間到學習空間) is the research output of the Project. It includes various studies of project-based learning of Bamboo Shed Cantonese Opera, which also serves as a reference for educators and teachers on how to integrate Cantonese Opera and ICH into formal curriculum. The hard copy will be available for schools and education parties as reference for free. The digital version will also be accessible at our blog (http://yuejuedu.blogspot.com) for wider circulation.

To read the book "Bamboo Shed Cantonese Opera and School Education: From Cultural Space to Learning Space": https://issuu.com/yuejuedu

Project details：https://www.lordwilson-heritagetrust.org.hk/tc/projects/project_listing/project_details/10-182.html

The Project was selected as one of the 10 items to be presented at the roving exhibition of "20th Anniversary of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust"：https://youtu.be/tklzgJ6iAuo