The eight-member group, the Rustic Chickens from Haja Production School in Seoul, set traditional Korean folk songs to lively Brazilian-inspired rhythms.

"We chose the name because we want to be healthy and good-looking like chickens running free in the countryside," the band leader told local and overseas arts educators gathered at HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in Kowloon Tong.

Their performance included a chant used to ensure blessings from the sea goddess and finished with a foot-stomping number that told of "wishes and hope trying to break out from pain and despair".

The three-day Creative Education Summit 2008, which concludes today, was organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture in collaboration with Hong Kong Institute of Education, Polytechnic University and Lingnan University.

HKICC chairwoman, Ada Wong Ying-kay said the challenge for the conference was to forge a consensus on how to implement innovation in the classroom in practice. "Everyone says that learning must be more creative, but we have different ideas about what it means to be creative."