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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

The Academy for Performing Arts runs the city's first Cantonese opera degree course. The Arts Development Council funds training programmes conducted by the Cantonese Opera Academy of Hong Kong.

Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Intangible Cultural Heritage Office organises activities to enhance public knowledge of the items listed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hong Kong. It launched the first round of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Funding Scheme in 2019 to engage the community in safeguarding and promoting intangible cultural heritage.

The office's Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre at Sam Tung Uk Museum holds exhibitions and other programmes to raise public understanding of intangible cultural heritage. It recorded over 91,000 visitors in 2019.

Lord Wilson Heritage Trust

This trust aims to preserve and conserve Hong Kong's human heritage by organising activities and funding community organisations and individuals to implement heritage-related projects. It approved 15 heritage-related projects in 2019.

Conservation Office

The Conservation Office conducts conservation treatment on museum artefacts, including paintings, prints, historical documents, textiles, metals, ceramics, sculptures, organic objects and archaeological finds. Scientific research and analyses were carried out to complement the conservation work for 376 artefacts in 2019.

The office held 30 educational workshops and behind-the-scenes laboratory tours, including demonstrations on artefact conservation during Muse Fest HK. It received around 700 participants including students, and recorded about 6,800 service hours contributed by 147 volunteers.

Nurturing Talent

Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund

Scholarships are awarded to candidates of outstanding calibre to pursue postgraduate studies in music or dance at degree-awarding tertiary education institutions in Hong Kong; professional music or dance training at world-renowned institutions; or less formal studies, projects or creative work outside Hong Kong. The fund awarded 15 scholarships in 2019.

Arts Administrator Trainee Scheme

The scheme aims to nurture a pool of arts administrators to support the development of performing arts. Trainees undergo two years of training in venue operation, facility management, event promotion and the organisation of performing arts programmes, carnivals, arts festivals and cultural exchanges. There were 37 LCSD trainee placements in 2019. The department also sponsored its 22 venue partners and the Hong Kong Arts Festival to run similar

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