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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

Culture and Arts Organisations

Hong Kong Arts Development Council

The Hong Kong Arts Development Council operates grant schemes and plans, promotes, funds and supports the overall development of the arts. It is a beneficiary of the bureau's Art Development Matching Grants Scheme and implements its own matching fund scheme to help small and medium-sized arts organisations.

The council grooms artists, curators, arts administrators and other arts professionals by providing opportunities for training, cultural exchange, internship and attachment locally and abroad. In 2019, it offered 14 talent nurture schemes, including artistic internship schemes for music, dance, drama and xiqu, and a scholarship for professional attachment to public programmes at Tate Modern in Britain.

Large-scale promotional events under the council include the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, Arts Ambassadors-in-School Scheme and Jockey Club New Arts Power. The council also supports local artists and arts groups to participate in events elsewhere; in 2019, they took part in the Meet in Beijing Arts Festival, China International Youth Arts Festival, Festival Hong Kong 2019 - A Cultural Extravaganza@Shanghai and Classical: Next Music Expo in the Netherlands. In addition, the council worked with M+ to take part in the International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and organised the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition - Hong Kong Response Exhibition jointly with the Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation and the Planning Department.

The council runs an Arts-in-School Partnership Scheme to foster cooperation between arts groups and schools while promoting better use of school premises as arts space. It also operates one arts space each in Aberdeen and Tai Po, and two in Kwun Tong.

Arts research and policy advocacy are part of the council's main tasks. Through an annual survey, it collects data on performing arts, visual arts, film and literary arts activities. Publications on the arts are produced yearly in collaboration with professional and academic groups.

Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts offers professional education, training and research facilities in the performing arts: Chinese opera, dance, drama, film and TV, music, and theatre and entertainment arts.

During the year, 865 students enrolled in undergraduate and post-secondary programmes in the six performing arts disciplines. Another 130 students were pursuing master's degree programmes in dance, drama, film and TV, music, and theatre and entertainment arts. The academy also admitted more than 630 students to its junior programmes and over 3,200 students to its Extension and Continuing Education for Life programme.

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