Results of applications for 10th-round funding exercise of Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme announced
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Response to the 10th-round funding exercise was overwhelming with a total of 121 applications being processed. The successful applications are of a high standard and with diverse representation across genres covering music, dance, theatre, visual arts, arts education/appreciation/promotion, multi-disciplinary arts and arts technology.
The successful applicants (in alphabetical order) are as follows:
| Name of organisation | Title of proposal |
| Artocrite Theater Limited | Venaissance |
| Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong | "Arts with the Disabled in Hong Kong" Online Channel and Archive |
| The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd | The Sixth Hong Kong International Piano Competition/ Joy of Music Festival - 2022 |
| City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong Limited | Space Symphony |
| Hong Kong 3 Arts Musical Institute Limited | UPSTREAM - Musical Theatre Enrichment Project (tentative title) |
| Hong Kong Open Printshop Limited | Beyond Paper |
| Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association Limited | Chuen Lung Storyboard - Visualising a Community and its Cultural Heritage |
| Institute of Chinese Martial Studies Limited* | Transforming Lingnan Martial Arts as a Movement and Performing Art through Digital Pedagogy, Interpretation and Performance |
| Joint Publishing Cultural Fund Limited | Understanding Chinese Painting and Calligraphy |
| Machine and Art NOW Ltd. | The Missing Link (tentative title) |
| No Discipline Limited | Alone Together in Different Realities - in search of new aesthetics in expanding performative and experiential in media-making (tentative title) |
| Osage Art Foundation Limited | HKACT! Acts 11-13 |
| PROJECT21st Limited | #MusicisMore 1st edition |
| R&T (Rhythm & Tempo) Limited | Hong Kong Tap Festival 10th Anniversary Series |
| Theatre de la Feuille | Back on the Global Stages |
| Toolbox Percussion Limited | TICA & Mainland Tour |
| Unlock Dancing Plaza Limited | #DANCELESS Festival 2023 |
Note: The award of grants is subject to the successful applicants' signing of funding agreements with the Government.
In the 10th-round funding exercise, apart from the nearly 30 applications submitted under the new category of "Arts Technology", a great number of applications under other categories have incorporated the element of technology application in varying degrees, showing an active integration of technology into artistic creation. On the whole, the result is encouraging.
Introduced in 2011, the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Home Affairs Bureau is administered on the advice of the Advisory Committee on Arts Development. Members of the Committee take part in the assessment of applications together with Expert Advisers. The funding scheme aims to provide funding support for innovative and impactful proposals that contribute to the objectives of capacity development, programme/content development, audience building and arts education. It also seeks to provide an avenue of support for large scale and cross-year arts and cultural initiatives/activities so as to enhance capacity development for promising arts groups and arts practitioners as well as to encourage the community and the private sector to support and sponsor the arts.
Ends/Thursday, July 22, 2021
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