Since its launch in 2008, the Arts Ambassadors-in-School Scheme (AAiSS) has amassed around 13,000 ambassadors from primary, secondary and special schools. A variety of arts activities is organised for arts ambassadors to demonstrate their talents and explore the possibility of arts. AAiSS encourages arts ambassadors to share the joy of artistic creation with their peers in order to live out the cooperative spirit of ‘Live in Art, Thrive in Sharing’.

Youth Arts Week, a new initiative in the past edition, has received overwhelming response. Themed on “Arts x Tech”, AAiSS in its 14th edition will continue to organise a wide variety of exciting online and offline arts activities for arts ambassadors.

The nomination process has gone online. Each school can nominate two arts ambassadors via the online system.

Ambassadors who are financially in need can apply for the allowance to subsidise travel expenses, admission fees and other expenses for participating in arts activities.

Eligibility:

• All nominated students from special schools.
• Nominated students who are eligible for "Comprehensive Social Security Assiatance (CSSA) Scheme" or "Working Family Allowance Scheme" (Low-income Working Family Allowance Scheme) can apply for a $500 activity allowance. Eligible students should submit relevant supporting documents together with the nomination form.
• Students who are solely eligible for School Textbook Assistance Scheme (Full grant/ Half grant), Student Travel Subsidy or Subsidy Scheme for Internet Access Charges are not qualified for the allowance.

Subsidy will be disbursed by bank transfer after students have completed the compulsory arts activities and the nominating teacher has confirmed the fulfilment of pledges on promoting arts in school by the end of academic year. Please fill in the bank's account details accurately and upload supporting documents of bank details (e.g. copy of bank card/extracts of bank statement).

All nominated ambassadors should fulfill the following requirements within the academic year in order to obtain a certificate:

• Promote arts at school as the fulfilment of pledges and being confirmed by the nominating teachers.
• Attend two core activities.
• Ambassadors who are unable to attend the compulsory activities are required to submit documents to the HKADC Administration Office within one month after the event.
  • Leave Application Letter with teacher’s signature and school chop, and
  • Arts performance/ exhibition review according to the requirements

Youth Arts Week will launch an array of activities including opening ceremony, "Arts X Tech" interactive exhibition, online and offline arts workshops during summer holiday, allowing arts ambassadors to experience the joy of arts creation with friends.

New initiatives include:

• "Arts X Tech" Workshop – to teach arts ambassadors how to apply innovative technology to artistic creation
• Docent Training - arts ambassadors can receive training to become docents of the exhibition, playing a key role in explaining the curatorial concept and exhibits to the audience. Arts ambassadors will also have the chance to deepen their understanding of the creative concept of the exhibits and the operation of an exhibition

Please stay tuned with the scheme website for details and registration.

"Creative+ Arts Camp" is another core activity which will be held during Easter holiday in 2022. Through workshops of different art forms including visual arts, drama, dance and music, arts ambassadors can experience different types of artistic creations. Arts ambassadors from different schools are encouraged to exchange and create their works through observing the community.

Note: In view of the latest development of the pandemic, we will implement different measures for offline activities or change them to online whenever deemed appropriate. Please stay tuned with our announcement.

• The nomination process has gone online. Each school can nominate 2 students and have maximum 2 teacher-in-charge
• For past participating schools, you may login the system to complete the procedures. Login details can be found on the invitation letter
• For newly-joined schools, please contact Ms Sindy Lam at 2820 1036 or via email (sindy_lam@hkadc.org.hk) to obtain the login details

• Criteria of nomination: strong interest in arts, proactive, willingness to share and readiness to serve the society with artistic talents
• Student's artistic expertise: expertise in any art form is welcome

Launch scheme booklet | Nomination guideline | Nomination online

Nomination Deadline (extended) : 28 January 2022 (Friday)

Enquiry: 2820 1036 / 2820 1095