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The Home Affairs Bureau (HAB) will hold two briefing sessions, to be held tomorrow (April 15) and on Sunday (April 17), on the arrangements of the 2016 Nomination of Representatives of Arts Interests for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) (the Nomination Exercise). All interested parties are welcome to attend.
The HKADC is a statutory body set up to promote the development of arts in Hong Kong. The Chief Executive may appoint up to 10 persons nominated by the specified arts interests as members of the HKADC. The 10 specified arts interests are Arts Administration, Arts Criticism, Arts Education, Chinese Opera (Xiqu), Dance, Drama, Film Arts, Literary Arts, Music and Visual Arts. The current term of office of the HKADC members will expire on December 31, 2016. Eligible arts organisations and individual arts workers may apply to participate in the Nomination Exercise to nominate representatives of the respective arts interests for the Chief Executive's consideration for appointment as members of the HKADC for the next term.
Details of the briefing sessions are as follows:
Briefing Session (1)
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Date: April 15 (Friday)
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum,
10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Language: Cantonese
Briefing Session (2)
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Date: April 17 (Sunday)
Time: 11am
Venue: Mong Kok Community Hall, L2,
Mong Kok Complex,
557 Shanghai Street, Mong Kok
Language: Cantonese (with simultaneous English interpretation)
The Nomination Exercise began on March 29. Eligible arts organisations and individual arts workers who would like to participate in the Nomination Exercise are invited to submit applications to the Nomination Agent (Note) on or before 5pm on May 27.
"Since the establishment of the HKADC in June 1995, this year marks the ninth nomination exercise for arts representatives. More information about the arrangements of the Nomination Exercise will be explained in the briefing sessions to the arts organisations and individual arts workers," an HAB spokesman said.
Those who are interested in joining the briefing sessions or have any other enquiries may contact the Nomination Agent: Ms Phoebe Sou at 3791 2286 or Ms Cherry Lau at 3791 2289, or email hkadc@instinctif.com.
For more information about the Nomination Exercise, please visit www.voteforhkadc2016.hk.
Note: The HAB has appointed Instinctif Partners (Hong Kong) Limited as the Nomination Agent of the 2016 Nomination Exercise.
Ends/Thursday, April 14, 2016
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