Since its launch in 2008, the Arts Ambassadors-in-School Scheme (AAiSS) has amassed around 16,000 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’.

With the theme of “Chinese Traditional Culture x Modern Arts”, AAiSS in its 16th edition will continue to organise an array of fabulous arts activities for arts ambassadors to explore and learn about traditional Chinese culture, bridging the past and present while fostering creativity.

To join the scheme, each school can nominate two arts ambassadors via the online system.

Youth Arts Week will host an array of arts activities including opening ceremony, arts exhibition, workshops and bazaar in summer, allowing arts ambassadors to experience the joy of arts creation with friends.

Activities included:

• Multi-disciplinary Arts Exhibition and Training
• Docent Training - arts ambassadors will 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 be able to learn from the artists and deepen their understanding of the creative concept of the exhibits and the operation of an exhibition, broadening their artistic horizon.
• Arts Bazaar – to invite past ambassadors to participate the bazaar, organise workshops and act as a tutor.

"Creative⁺ Arts Camp" is another core activity which will be held during Easter holiday in 2024. 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.

To encourage arts ambassadors to participate in different arts activities, a new edition of Arts Training Enhancement Courses will be held between February and July 2024. Please stay tuned with the details announced on the scheme website.

Jointly organised by the Education Bureau, Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Hong Kong Arts Development Council, “Arts Buddies” will allow arts ambassadors to gain an in-depth understanding of arts and culture, as well as the works of local artists through a series of arts programmes including arts appreciation course, conservation talk and curation of exhibition workshop.

Details: https://bit.ly/3sVAYtl

In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, an Arts and Cultural Exchange Tour will be organised during summer holiday, to facilitate the exchange between the arts ambassadors and local students and allow arts ambassadors to expand their horizons by learning and experiencing the rich culture of China.