Support for SMEs

Government Funding Schemes

Cantonese Opera Development Fund
CSTB
Objective

To provide funding support to projects and activities relating to the study, promotion and sustainable development of Cantonese opera.

Details

Cantonese Opera Development Fund mainly uses and gives priority consideration in allocating its resources for supporting the following projects or activities:

  • nurturing young talents or supporting middle-tier professional artists;
  • stage performances of full-length Cantonese operas or full-length plays which are experimental / creative in nature or of high archival values;
  • premiere or rerun of quality newly written / adapted Cantonese operas;
  • promoting and sustaining the development of Cantonese opera in the schools, the community or the disadvantaged;
  • professional training programmes for Cantonese opera practitioners;
  • setting up Cantonese opera exchange platforms or arranging exchange visits or outbound exchange programmes or promoting Cantonese opera to the Mainland / Overseas;
  • researches and studies, seminars, talks or workshops in relation to the development and inheritance of Cantonese opera;
  • collecting, preserving, arranging or publishing literature on Cantonese opera in Hong Kong, Cantonese opera scripts or other related materials worthy of preservation, including oral history of Cantonese opera and audio-visual materials, etc.; or
  • other new projects in sustaining the development of Cantonese opera.
Eligibility and Requirement

Local registered organisations, local Cantonese opera practitioners or Hong Kong residents.

Application Procedure

Cantonese Opera Development Fund does not accept application all year round. Please visit the Scheme's website for the application periods and application procedures.

Implementation Agent
Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau
2024-08-12