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The Home Affairs Bureau today (February 7) announced the results of applications for the 2011 Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme. A total of 18 successful applications, nine for Springboard Grants and nine for Project Grants, will be funded under the Scheme.
Speaking at the announcement ceremony today, the Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Raymond Young, said, "The response of the arts sector to the Funding Scheme is good. We have received a total of 98 applications. As the required amount of funding for worthwhile applications exceeds the original provision of $30 million, we have allocated an extra $9 million for this round of the funding exercise, enabling more quality applications to be funded.
"Springboard Grants, which provide funding support for arts groups on a matching basis, are new to the arts sector. We aim to cultivate a supportive culture for the arts and provide incentives for the arts groups to explore different sources of funding so that they may operate in a more financially self-sufficient and sustainable manner in future. I appeal to the community to lend your support to the development of the arts and culture," Mr Young said.
The Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Arts Development, Dr Chung Shui-ming, said, "The successful applications cover a wide range of art forms, including music, dance, drama, visual arts, arts administration, arts education and multi-disciplinary arts. The successful applicants have demonstrated their strengths in contents development, audience building, arts education and capacity development. The Committee hopes that with the funding support, these groups would be able to launch their initiatives smoothly and write a new chapter in local arts and cultural development."
1) Successful applicants for Springboard Grants under the 2011 Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme:
(In alphabetical order)
Name of organisation Title of proposal
Hong Kong Arts Centre Arts Xperience
Opera Hong Kong Limited Enhancing Opera
Development in Hong Kong
Para/Site Space Limited An Integrated Strategic
Program for Developing
Para/Site's Additional
Platforms for Research,
Education and Publication
Premiere Performances of Hong Kong International
Hong Kong Chamber Music Festival
2013
Shakespeare4 All Shakespeare Our
Company Limited Contemporary: Learning &
Participation
Tang Shu-wing Theatre Theatre Research and
Studio Limited Creation Project
Wind Mill Grass Theatre Wind Mill Grass Theatre
Company Limited Grassy Plain Project
Wuji Ensemble Images of Dunhuang
Yat Po Singers Yat Po Singers
2) Successful applicants for Project Grants under the 2011 Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme
(In alphabetical order)
Name of organisation Title of proposal
Arts with the Disabled The 2nd Festival of
Association of Hong Kong Inclusive Arts (FIA)
Asia Art Archive Limited Art History, its
Exhibitions and Other
Sites of Display-An
International Academic
Conference & An Art
Documentary Film Festival
Edward Lam Dance Theatre Enlightening Hong Kong,
Limited Nurturing Our Talents
Fotanian Fotanian Arts Promotion
Program
Hong Kong Arts Fellowships for Arts
Administrators Association Management Experience
Lumenvisum Company Limited 18 x 24 Photo Adventure
in Hong Kong
On and On Theatre Workshop Contemporary New Writing
for Theatre (2012-2014)
Soundpocket Sound Collecting for
Online Sound Library
Unlock Dancing Plaza Serial Dance Theatre -
Limited WALLS 44
The Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme is a new funding scheme launched by the Home Affairs Bureau last June, with the Advisory Committee on Arts Development giving advice and conducting assessments on applications. Under the Scheme, there are Springboard Grants, with matching elements, as well as Project Grants. The Funding Scheme aims to enhance capacity development of local arts practitioners and arts groups. It also seeks to encourage the community and the private sector to support and sponsor arts and cultural initiatives, opening up new funding avenues for activities/projects of a large scale and/or of a long time frame and providing new funding opportunities for initiatives to enhance overall capacity development.
Ends/Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Issued at HKT 17:12
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