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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

Fringe Club

The Fringe Club is housed in what used to be a cold-storage warehouse built in 1890, now listed as a Grade 1 historical building and adapted for use as a contemporary arts space. It houses three theatres, and holds regular exhibitions in different spaces throughout the building.

The Fringe Club adopts an open access policy to nurture budding artists and promote mature artists by providing venue and publicity support as well as opportunities for overseas tours. Because of the pandemic, in 2020 the club held only 20 per cent of its usual number of

activities.

Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre

The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary arts village and arts centre housed in a converted nine-storey decommissioned factory estate in Shek Kip Mei. It leases studio facilities to more than 140 artists and cultural organisations, and provides exhibition and performance facilities, including the Central Courtyard, galleries and the Jockey Club Black Box Theatre.

Apart from arts education activities for schools, there are large-scale programmes for the public, including the annual JCCAC Festival, the quarterly Handicraft Fair, open-air film screenings, exhibitions and docent guided tours. The programmes attracted over 230,000 visitors in

2019-20.

Major Performing Arts Groups

Chung Ying Theatre Company

The company is a professional theatrical arts group. In 2020, it staged Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein: Relive. Due to the pandemic, the company presented its productions and courses online for the first time.

City Contemporary Dance Company

The company is a professional modern dance group that nurtures creative dance talent in the context of contemporary China. In addition to two live productions on stage, the company presented programmes through live streaming in 'CCDC Digital Dance Season!

Hong Kong Ballet

This is one of Asia's premier ballet companies. In 2020, it presented Don Quixote, Lying Together (a new short film in collaboration with Corey Baker Dance) and 'This is Wan Chai' (an art installation in collaboration with multimedia artist Jevan Chowdhury). The company also launched the HKBALLET@HOME online channel and its 'WearDance' project won two Special Awards at the HKMA/TVB Awards for Marketing Excellence.

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