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Hong Kong is a creative powerhouse with more than 136,000 practitioners engaged in fields ranging from design to publishing, interactive games to animation and comics, advertising to architecture, and music to film and TV production.
Funding and policy support for vibrant creative ecosystem
v The CreateSmart Initiative provides funding for projects that enhance our creative industries.
A series of programmes to reinforce Hong Kong’s status as a city of design excellence in Asia includes the Business of Design Week, the DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award, the Design Incubation Programme, and the Fashion Incubation Programme;
v CreateHK’s First Feature Film Initiative supports new Hong
Kong directors in their first feature film projects.
Heritage buildings revitalised to become creative hubs
v A historic building (previously a yacht clubhouse) has been transformed into an art space called Oi!;
v 7 Mallory Street, in a cluster of revitalised pre-war historic buildings in Wan Chai, offers a creative space for Hong Kong’s comics and animation artists;
v PMQ, a historic building used to serve as a police married quarters, has become a creative industries landmark and a home for artists- in-residence.
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