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Individuals / artist collectives / groups / organisations must be nominated by at least one nominator in order to compete for an award. There is no special qualification requirement for the nominator.

There is no upper limit on the number of nominators, who may submit nominations on his / her own personal capacity or on behalf of an organisation.

The assessment panels comprise of professionals in the arts sector, including representatives from various art forms. They will be responsible for assessing nominations received for the following five awards: “Artist of the Year”, “Award for Young Artist”, “Award for Arts Education in Schools”, “Award for Arts Promotion and Education” and “Award for Arts Sponsorship”. The recommended awardee list will be submitted to the chief adjudication panel for consideration.

Individual, each member of the Artist Collective nominee should be a holder of Hong Kong Identity Card while group / organisation nominees should be registered in Hong Kong. If necessary, nominees will be required to provide a copy of their HKID or Certificate of Registration as proof.

“Artist collective” refers to constant and long-term collaboration of arts creation units, whose works are released in the form of collaboration and under the name of the artist collective during the assessment period (and in the past).

Each member in the Artist Collective should be 40 years of age or below on the date nomination closes. Each member needs to provide HKID copy for verification when submitting the nomination.

Registration of user account is applicable to NOMINEES only, nominators are not required.

(i)Nominators fill in details and submit first
Upon the completion of nomination details, an automatic email link will be sent to nominees based on email address provided by nominators, inviting nominees to fill in and submit documents’ section of the form through the System. For more information, please refer to the user guide.

(ii)Nominees register first
Upon the completion of registration, an automatic email link will be sent to the nominators based on email address provided by the nominees, inviting nominators to fill in and submit the nominator's section of the form through the System. For more information, please refer to the user guide.

Remarks: Both parties must complete the relevant information before submitting a complete nomination.

Should there be any questions regarding the “Hong Kong Arts Development Awards Online System”, please refer to the user guide, or contact HKADC via email at [email protected] or by phone at 2820 1048.

Please refer to the Submission Guideline in “Hong Kong Arts Development Awards Online System” or physical form. Please ensure that the format and requirements of the submitted documents comply with the document submission instructions. In the interests of fairness, additional information may not be referenced.

To ensure the assessment is conducted in an open and fair manner, the various assessment panels will be formed only after all the nominations have been received and confirmed. This will help avoid any conflict of interest concerning nominees and assessment panel members. The assessment process will be conducted in strict confidentiality.

Names of all nominees will not be disclosed and the assessment process will be conducted in strict confidentiality.

The project may consist of a single programme or a series of programmes implemented in phases. Please select one project only to compete for an award if you have implemented several projects during the assessment period.

Each recipient of “Artist of the Year” will receive a cash award of HK$50,000 while recipients of “Award for Young Artist” will receive a cash award of HK$25,000 for supporting his / her / the artist collective’s creative work, arts projects or further studies. All awardees will receive a trophy.

Awardees and their nominators will be notified of the results by post in April to May 2024. Unsuccessful nominees will also receive notification in April to May 2024.