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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

also provides continuous funding to support the training programmes organised by the Cantonese Opera Academy of Hong Kong.

Intangible Cultural Heritage

The government supports the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through various means, including the identification, documentation, research, preservation, promotion and transmission of such heritage. The first inventory of Hong Kong's ICH with 480 items was announced in June 2014. An online ICH database with information on the inventory items was launched in December and an exhibition on Hong Kong's ICH was organised as part of Hong Kong Week 2014 in Taipei.

Lord Wilson Heritage Trust

The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust aims to preserve and conserve the human heritage of Hong Kong by organising activities and providing funding support to community activities and research projects related to heritage.

The trust approved 15 heritage-related projects in 2014, bringing the total to 177 since its establishment in 1992.

Conservation Office

The Conservation Office performed conservation treatment on 994 museum artefacts, including paintings, prints, historical documents, textiles, metals, ceramics, sculptures, organic objects and archaeological finds. Prior to the treatment work, scientific research and analyses were conducted to identify appropriate modes of treatment.

The office organised 34 workshops and behind-the-scene laboratory tours for 681 students and members of the public in 2014, and recruited 117 volunteers who contributed over 8,652 service hours.

More than 500 participants from over 30 countries attended the 'International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works 2014 Hong Kong Congress' in September 2014, with the theme 'An Unbroken History - Conserving East Asian Works of Art and Heritage. It was the institute's first congress held in Southeast Asia.

Nurturing talent

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund awards scholarships to enable candidates with outstanding talent to pursue post-diploma or post-graduate studies or professional training in music or dance at world-renowned institutions or to undertake less formal studies, projects or creative work outside Hong Kong.

The fund awarded five scholarships in 2014, bringing the total to 293 since its establishment in 1980.

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