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The Home Affairs Bureau today (June 2) announced the results of applications for the fifth-round funding exercise of the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme. A total of 13 successful applications will be funded with Springboard Grants or Project Grants at a total funding amount of around $29.7 million.
The funding scheme has been met with an encouraging response from the arts sector and a total of 54 applications were received for the fifth-round funding exercise. The successful applications are of high standard and with diverse representation across genres covering music, dance, theatre, visual arts, media arts, arts education and multi-disciplinary arts.
The successful applicants (in alphabetical order) are as follows:
Name of Organisation Title of Proposal
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Contemporary Musiking "Sonic Brood"
Hong Kong Limited Sound Art Cultivation
in High Schools
HDX International HDX International
Festival Limited Festival
Hong Kong Arts Centre * Cultural Masseur
Hong Kong Open The Legendary Pulp
Printshop Limited
Musica Viva Limited Hong Kong International
Vocal Competition 2017/18
Musicus Society Musicus Society -
Limited * Continuous Development
orleanlaiproject Project ELSE -
interdisciplinary/cross
artform experimentation
series
Passoverdance Maze: Pushing Boundaries
Prism Creation Limited Pilot Scheme for Online
New Senior Secondary
Visual Arts Curriculum-
linked Supplementary
Teaching Aids Database
(Extended Programme of
"arts-news")
Rooftop Institute Asia Seed 2016-2018 -
Arts Learning & Cultural
Exchange Programme for
Hong Kong Youth
Shakespeare4All From Impact to
Company Limited * Innovation: The i2i
Theatre Project
Theatre Horizon Arts New Directors' Movement
Limited
Wong Fai Puppet Not The Puppets You Used
Shadow Company Limited To Know
* Successful applicants for Springboard Grant
Note: The award of grants is subject to the successful applicants' signing of funding agreements with the Government.
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 the Expert Advisers. Under the Scheme, there are Springboard Grants, with matching elements, as well as direct Project Grants. 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 open up new funding avenues to support 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, June 2, 2016
Issued at HKT 12:15
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