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Executive Director
Hello/你好 (pronounced nei hou)! I’m Janet Tam (she/her). I have over 20 years of experience in the creative industry as an administrator and maintained my own theatre practice in scripted theatre and Playback Theatre.
My areas of expertise are in non-profit management and governance, crisis management, strategic planning, inclusive cultural programming and practice, stakeholder engagement as well as fundraising. I particularly enjoy building platforms and infrastructures to facilitate better access and more diversity in the arts.
Prior to joining STAF, my professional life was mostly at the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK) since 1999, and I served as ADAHK’s Executive Director from 2007-2015 and 2020-2021. Amidst various challenges and crises, I was fortunate enough to have been a part of the work that gave rise to its growth and the creation of pioneering programmes, catalysing changes among persons/artists with disabilities and even paradigm shifts in society, such as the establishment of the Jockey Club Arts Accessibility Service Centre in Hong Kong.
I have worked with disability / community arts organisations and exchanged with artists and facilitators from different countries such as the VSA network, Arts & Disability Ireland, Centre for Playback Theatre, Quest Visual Theatre, DADAA, Centre for Community Cultural Development.
Being a migrant in the UK, of a working-class background, and a cancer survivor have informed my working practice and belief that sickness and disability is a universal experience and expression of the human condition.
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