Arts-in-School Partnership Scheme

Target Beneficiaries: Primary: Students (Primary, Secondary, and Special Schools) and Local Arts Groups/Individual Artists. Secondary: Teachers, Parents, and the local neighborhood community. Eligibility Criteria for Applicants: Arts Units: Local arts organizations or individual artists with a proven track record in artistic creation or arts education. Schools: Local primary, secondary, or special schools willing to lease facilities (e.g., school halls, classrooms) to arts units. Partnership Requirement: Applications must be submitted as a joint proposal between one arts unit and one school.

Organisation applicant - Small and medium-sized arts groups/organisations that are registered and operating in Hong Kong, including grantees of HKADC Year Grant, Eminent Arts Group Scheme and Literary Arts Platform Scheme, arts organisations with sponsorship/successful application from LCSD Venue Partnership Scheme or HAB Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme, arts organisations with existing school partners or experience in implementing arts activities in schools, as well as arts organisations with the ability and experience of organising high-quality arts activities. Applications by organisations which are in the process of being registered, sole proprietorship or joint submission by more than one organisation are not accepted. Individual co-partnership applicant - HKADC accepts co-partnership application submitted by two to four individual artists with an appointed producer/curator/administrator. Each individual applicant should be Hong Kong resident aged 18 or above, currently practising in arts and with relevant experience in arts education. Each co-partnership applicant will enjoy equal rights and undertake equal liabilities in respect of the application and the partnership agreement. School - All primary, secondary and special schools registered under the Education Ordinance (Cap.279) in Hong Kong.