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Recreation, Sport and the Arts
In 2012, the Cantonese Opera Development Fund granted about $8.5 million to support various Cantonese opera projects, including the Venue Partnership Schemes at Yau Ma Tei Theatre, Yuen Long Theatre and Sha Tin Town Hall. A total of $55 million had been approved for some 470 Cantonese opera projects since its inception in 2005. It will continue to provide funds to preserve, promote and develop Cantonese opera.
Funding for the Major Performing Arts Groups
In 2011-12, HAB provided about $264 million in regular funding for nine major performing arts. groups: the Chung Ying Theatre Company, the City Contemporary Dance Company, the Hong Kong Ballet, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Dance Company, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Zuni Icosahedron.
Capital Funding
An upfront endowment of $21.6 billion has been granted to the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to develop the West Kowloon Cultural District, to meet the long-term infrastructural and development needs of the arts and culture.
Hong Kong Arts Development Council
The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) plans, promotes, funds and supports the broad development of the arts in Hong Kong. Besides encouraging public participation in the arts and advocating arts education, the HKADC also endeavours to advance arts criticism, raise the standards of arts administration and strengthen arts policy research. It also operates various grant schemes.
The HKADC helps groom talented people and cultivate budding artists by providing them with opportunities to receive training and to take part in competitions, cultural exchanges and internships in Hong Kong and abroad. Besides offering the Hong Kong Scholarships on the Clore Leadership Programme and organising the Visual Artist-in-Residence Programme, the HKADC launched the Mori Art Museum Internship, the Arts Administration Scholarships and the HKADC Critic's Prize in 2012.
The HKADC held a number of big arts promotion events in 2012, notably the Hong Kong Arts. Development Awards 2011; the 4th Arts Ambassadors-in-School Scheme and the Fresh Wave 2012. To bring arts closer to the public, the HKADC and RTHK co-presented Artspiration, a weekly TV series introducing art and cultural events in Hong Kong and around the world. It also co-presented ArTour, a TV segment with Cable TV at the programme Close to Culture once a month, featuring local young artists.
The HKADC participated in the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition and the 7th Liverpool Biennial. Together with the Manhattan School of Music, it presented the Manhattan Hong Kong Music Festival which showcased Hong Kong's best composers and musicians in New York. The HKADC also held the 4th Arts Forum for Cross-Straits, Hong Kong
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