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Over the past 26 years, more than 500 arts groups from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America have used the premises for cultural exchanges.
In 2010, the Fringe presented the annual urban City Festival that covers an array of interests and activities, including performing and visual arts, cultural exchange projects, heritage and living history programmes, workshops and urban studies. A highlight was 'Spotlight Guangzhou', featuring a joint exhibition by 16 Hong Kong artists and 15 China artists, a symposium on Lingnan Culture, and bands from Guangzhou. The Fringe also organised a Guangzhou Arts Tour for Hong Kong arts managers.
During the year, the club also assisted visits by Hong Kong artists to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Taipei, Seoul and Vancouver. In October, it took part in the Hong Kong Week at the Shanghai Expo with Saturday Night Jazz Orchestra, and a contemporary jazz band featuring Ted Lo and Eugene Pao.
The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre
Opened in 2008, the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC) is an innovative arts project that involved converting a nine-storey decommissioned factory estate at Shek Kip Mei into a multi-disciplinary artists' centre. It is a self-financed, registered charity that promotes the arts and culture and helps nurture creative arts talent.
The JCCAC has well-equipped exhibition facilities and a black box theatre, and houses over 100 art studios for a wide array of art forms, from painting, sculpture, ceramics, glass art, printmaking, installation, to photography, animation and video production, music, dance and drama. These facilities are open to hire by artists and arts groups. In the year 2010, the major events presented by the JCCAC were the seasonal JCCAC Arts & Crafts Fair, and the co-presented festival events which included the Hong Kong Dance Festival 2010 and Hong Kong Photo Festival 2010.
Major Performing Arts Groups
Chung Ying Theatre Company
Established in 1979, the Chung Ying Theatre Company is a non-profit-making professional theatre company dedicated to creating high quality theatrical productions and to promoting the theatrical arts, exploring cultural exchanges and enriching cultural life. It is a venue partner of the Kwai Tsing Theatre and Yuen Long Theatre.
In 2010, the company staged a number of classic pieces by famous writers and playwrights including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein adapted from the famous scientific fiction written by the British novelist, Mary Shelley, Daniel Keyes's science fiction short story, Flowers for Algernon, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, as well as the well-received productions Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Bet of My Dead Aunt. It also co-presented the musical Old Master Q with the Spring Time. Group.
The company's outreach and professional education programmes are designed to connect people through stage performances and drama education.
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