To promote and enhance the accessibility of the performing arts in a community environment, local arts practitioners are selected to act as Community Cultural Ambassadors to conduct outreach activities. The Scheme intends to facilitate specific sectors of the community to explore and develop interests in the performing arts. Some of the activities are targeted at students.
Activities of the Community Cultural Ambassador Scheme 2007/08
Brief Introduction to Selection Mechanism (2007/08)

To promote appreciation of performing arts among students and to stimulate their creativity, the Department joins hands with professional performing arts groups with proven experience and artistic standard in launching different projects under the School Arts Animateur Scheme on a yearly basis.
Details of School Arts Animateur Scheme 2008/09

To promote Cantonese Opera in the district level and provide performance opportunity for the young artists to develop their skills through provision of performing venues, publicity and financial support to the amateurish Cantonese Opera troupes.

By co-ordinating a wide range of arts educational activities for students in the Department's performing venues, museums and libraries, the School Culture Day Scheme, with the support of the Education Bureau, aims at broadening our young people's vision, developing their interest in arts and fostering their creativity.

Under the Scheme which will last for one school year, participating schools will be able to organize students to participate in the innovative and interesting programmes especially designed for them during school hours.
Details of School Culture Day Scheme 2008/09

To enhance senior secondary students' appraising skills and foster in them a life-long interest in the arts through a series of in-depth performing arts programmes and help schools prepare for the implementation of Aesthetic Development in the NSS Other Learning Experiences in the 2009/10 school year.
Details of Experience the Arts - Pilot Scheme for Senior Secondary Students 2008/09

The Department is open to suggestions for collaboration in audience building activities with cultural organizations and educational institutions.
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To promote culture and arts, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department welcomes arts enthusiasts to join us as volunteers in our activities.
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Audience Building Office
Tel: 2268 7367
Fax: 2370 8295