Established in 1995, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) is a statutory body set up to promote the development of arts in Hong Kong. The HKADC comprises 27 members, of which a Chairman, a Vice-chairman and not more than 22 other members shall be appointed by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Of the 22 other members, up to 10 are nominated by specified arts interests. The 10 specified arts interests are Arts Administration, Arts Criticism, Arts Education, Chinese Opera (Xiqu), Dance, Drama, Film Arts, Literary Arts, Music and Visual Arts.
The terms of office of the HKADC current members will expire on 31 December 2010. The HAB is conducting an exercise to nominate representatives of 10 arts interests for the next term of the HKADC commencing 1 January 2011.
Following the completion of the candidate nomination process for the captioned exercise, there are a total of 29 eligible candidates standing for nomination this year. Among the 10 arts interests, one candidate in the arts interest of Drama is running uncontested while no nomination was received for the arts interest of Arts Criticism. Therefore, no polling will be conducted for these 2 arts interests. Nominations for the other 8 arts interests (Arts Administration, Arts Education, Dance, Film Arts, Literary Arts, Music, Visual Arts and Chinese Opera (Xiqu)) will be determined by polling.
Polling will be held from 17 to 19 September 2010 at the Hall of The Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association, 136A Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. A “cross-interest voting” system will continue to be adopted this year. Voters from all the 10 arts interests may cast votes for candidates standing for nomination in the 8 contested arts interests. Candidates for the respective arts interests are as follows:
A candidate forum will be held on 4 September (Saturday) from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Y-Studio, 2/F, Youth Square, 238 Chai Wan Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong. You are cordially invited to attend. More details are available here. If you wish to attend the forum, please register with Ms Virgini Fung or Ms Mary Wong at 22323981/ 22323932, or fax the reply slip to 25624827, or email: info@voteforhkadc2010.hk.
