For Cantonese Opera

[link_to | http://www.coac-codf.org.hk/en/cantonese_opera_development_fund/index.html | Cantonese Opera Development Fund (CODF)]

Objective: Set up and run by the Home Affairs Bureau, CODF is to support and fund research and programmes/ events aim to promote and sustain the development of Cantonese opera.

Application period / deadline: Three rounds every year.

CODF will mainly use and give 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.