School Interactive Education Theatre

School Interactive Education Theatre 2026-2027 is now open for application

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Background

Since 1995, the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) has been collaborating with local professional troupe on the School Interactive Education Theatre Programme, which is one of the major education and publicity campaigns to spread smoke-free messages among children and teenagers. In over 30 years, the Programme has delivered over 2,400 performances reaching over 660,000 students and teachers. The previous performances were well received by students and teachers. According to our evaluation report, majority of students rated the performance as good and wished to participate in the Programme again. Improvements on tobacco-related knowledge and perceptions were observed.

Promoting smoke-free messages in an interactive way

Through collaboration with schools and local professional troupe, COSH encourages the children and youth to promote the development of a smoke-free culture and tobacco control. Past drama performances include “No Smoking Where My Son's Learning”, “Journey To The Health”, “Smoke-free Detective”, “Smoke-free Dream Adventure”, “Smoke-free Rangers”, “Smoke-free Detective Adventure”, “Smoke-free Family”, “Where is Daddy”, “Smoke-free Alliance”, “Game On Smoke Off” and “Smoke-free Magic Boy” etc. The smoke-free messages are delivered along with music, stage effects and interesting presentation. Through the performance, students learn about the harmful effects of smoking, secondhand smoke, third-hand smoke and alternative smoking products, and receive positive messages such as fallacies about smoking, how to refuse smoking and the benefits of a smoke-free environment. This aims to help students build a smoke-free and healthy lifestyle at an earlier age and encourage smokers to kick the habit.

This year, the Programme is co-organized by the Education Bureau and collaborated with iStage Theatre to produce and deliver a new drama “Smoke-Free Adventure: Direct Message from Your Organs”. In addition to helping primary school students understand the dangers of tobacco and letting them know the importance of rejecting the first puff of cigarettes, it also reveals the harm of secondhand and third-hand smoke to non-smokers. Students are invited to encourage their families and friends to quit smoking and support a tobacco-free Hong Kong.

iStage Theatre

iStage Theatre Limited (iStage) is a non-profit-making art organization and One-Year Grant arts group of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

iStage was founded by two experienced performers Elton Lau and Gigi Cheng in 2007. The team has produced a number of qualified drama performances with distinct themes and life elements which many sets of works have been awarded and were nominated in the Hong Kong Drama Awards and the Hong Kong Theatre Libre.

Regardless of the performing form and script management direction, productions from iStage embrace creativity and artistry. iStage as well concerned about the role of arts in the society and thus they are bringing “Smoke-Free Adventure: Direct Message from Your Organs” on stage, attaining an ‘Inclusive Society’ and promoting ‘Inter-cities Collaboration’.

In addition, iStage is committed to promoting performing arts among the young generation. Since 2014, they have accumulated more than 1,500 school and community tour experiences.

Learn more about iStage Theatre