​The Home Affairs Bureau today (June 28) announced the results of applications for the seventh-round funding exercise of the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme. A total of 13 successful applications for Project Grants will be funded to a total amount of around $24.97 million.
A total of 43 applications were received for the seventh-round funding exercise. The successful applications are of high standard and with diverse representation across genres covering music, dance, theatre, visual arts, media arts, arts education, community arts and multi-disciplinary arts.
The successful applicants (in alphabetical order) are as follows:
| Name of Organisation | Title of Proposal |
| The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Limited | The Fifth Hong Kong International Piano Competition/Joy of Music Festival 2019 |
| Drip Music | Ensemble Transience: Composition & Improvisation |
| H.D. X International Festival Limited | Hong Kong Dance Exchange |
| Hong Kong New Music Limited | CARAVANSERAI |
| Hong Kong Open Printshop Limited | IMPACT 11 International Printmaking Conference Print Art: a Hub of Legend and Legacies @ JCCAC |
| Institute of Chinese Martial Studies Limited | Safeguarding the Community: A New Media Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition (working title) |
| Kunst EXA Limited x Kunst Intermodal Arts Therapy Centre |
Art Flow in Senses |
| Make a Difference Institute Limited | Community Record Company |
| Opera Hong Kong Limited | To Foster Cultural Exchanges between Hong Kong and the Mainland through Hong Kong Young Talents |
| Pants Theatre Production Limited | Theatre in Society: 2nd Documentary Theatre Festival |
| Rooftop Institute Limited | Hok Hok Zaap (HHZ): 15 Initiatives of Engaged Learning in Art |
| Theatre Space Foundation Limited | The Detective House of Agatha Christie |
| Wong Fai Puppet Shadow Company Limited | Not The Puppets You Used To Know – Chinese Traditional Puppet Festival |
Note: The award of grants is subject to the successful applicants' signing of funding agreements with the Government.
Introduced in 2011, the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Home Affairs Bureau is administered on the advice of the Advisory Committee on Arts Development. Members of the Committee take part in the assessment of applications together with the Expert Advisers. The funding scheme aims to provide funding support for innovative and impactful proposals that contribute to the objectives of capacity development, programme/content development, audience building and arts education. It also seeks to provide an avenue of support for large scale and cross-year arts and cultural initiatives/activities so as to enhance capacity development for promising arts groups and arts practitioners as well as to encourage the community and the private sector to support and sponsor the arts.
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