Results of applications for 14th-round funding exercise of Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme announced
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The successful applications of the 14th round are of a high standard, with a diverse representation covering arts education/appreciation/promotion, community arts, dance, media arts, multi-disciplinary arts, music and theatre. The successful applicants (categories and names of organisations in alphabetical order) are as follows:
| Name of organisation | Title of proposal | Category |
| Springboard Grant | ||
| Hong Kong Open Printshop Limited | Beyond Ordinary - The Contemporary Book Art | Arts Education/Appreciation/ Promotion |
| The Hong Kong Virtuoso Chorus Limited | Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival 2026 | Arts Education/Appreciation/ Promotion |
| Project Grant | ||
| The Conservancy Association x Fragrant Village Creative Limited (joint applicant) |
Polishing the Pearl: Shen Zhen Hong Kong Rural Arts Renewal Project at Kat O | Community Arts |
| H.D. X International Festival Limited | Hong Kong Dance Exchange | Dance |
| HongkongDance-FLSH Limited | Dynamic Dance Dialogue 2026 | Dance |
| Passoverdance Limited | Fleeting Moments – Stories of Cities and Bodies | Dance |
| Dimension Plus Limited | Unravelling A.I. Bias with Generative A.I. in Arts | Media Arts |
| No Discipline Limited | Whatever Wherever Expanded | Multi-disciplinary Arts |
| King's Harmonica Quintet Limited | 2nd Hong Kong International Chromatic Harmonica Competition | Music |
| Music Lab Company Limited | Music Lab Projects 2026-2027 | Music |
| Opera Box Limited | Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea | Music |
| Alice Theatre Laboratory Limited | An Experimental Project on Symbolist Theatre | Theatre |
| Hong Kong 3 Arts Musical Institute Limited | GOTTA DANCE - Musical Theatre Project (tentative title) | Theatre |
| Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio Limited | The 2nd edition of the Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival | Theatre |
The 14th-round funding exercise continues to implement the Incentive Matching Sum, an initiative introduced in the 13th round to encourage successful Project Grant applicants to seek non-government sponsorship and/or donations during project implementation, offering each successful applicant an extra matching sum up to a ceiling of $800,000.
Introduced by the Government in 2011, the ACDFS aims to provide funding support for innovative and impactful proposals that contribute to the objectives of capacity development of arts practitioners, arts groups, art forms and/or the arts sector; programme/content development; audience building and arts education. The funding scheme 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. A total of 89 applications were assessed in the 14th-round funding exercise.
Ends/Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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