ENG-2012 — Page 402

19

Recreation, Sport and the Arts

the first manned rendezvous and docking of China between the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft and the Tiangong-1 space laboratory.

Some 790,000 people visited the museum's exhibitions and shows in the Space Theatre while 24,800 people took part in the educational and extension programmes in 2012.

Art Promotion Office

Projects organised or supported by the Art Promotion Office in 2012 included 'Park D'eco Cornwall Street Park', 'ArtAlive@Park2012' at Tsim Sha Tsui East Waterfront Podium Garden, Tai Po Waterfront Park and Stanley Promenade, 'New Look for Public Places: Shanghai Street Public Art Project, 'Art@Government Buildings 2012-13', and 'Awakened Sleepers Transformed Places Hong Kong International Sculpture Symposium 2012' at Quarry Bay Park. Two solo exhibitions by local artists and one by a local art group were held under the 'Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme V' to bring high quality art exhibitions to different districts of Hong Kong.

The Art Promotion Office also jointly curated '2012 Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennial: Sculpting Space - Hong Kong Public Art Design' with the Hong Kong Sculpture Society at the Beijing World Art Museum, The China Millennium Monument in September.

In 2012, the Art Promotion Office started refurbishing No 12 Oil Street, a Grade II red-brick historic building, as a visual arts exhibition and activity centre which will open in 2013.

Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

Managed by the Art Promotion Office, the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre focuses on art training and promotion, and provides facilities for hiring. It has eight art studios, a lecture theatre, an exhibition hall and two multi-purpose rooms. The centre organised a series of programmes in 2012 including 'Art Specialist Course 2012-13', the 'School Programme Series' and 'Art Summer@VAC:

Hong Kong Film Archive

The Hong Kong Film Archive acquires, preserves, catalogues and documents Hong Kong films and related materials. The building houses a cinema, an exhibition hall, a resource centre and four temperature-controlled storerooms for the films and related materials. It has more than 12,527 films and 1,079,769 related materials. Major acquisitions in 2012 included 1,250 film items donated by Hong Kong Film Services, 35 pre-print film materials dated from 1992 to 2002 donated by Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment Company Limited, 42 film items dated from 1976 to 2010 donated by Seasonal Film Corporation and around 57 film prints dated from 1937 to 1973 acquired from Mr Jack Lee Fong in San Francisco, USA.

Hong Kong Film Archive events in 2012 included a variety of exhibitions and screening programmes.

334