" Anti-epidemic Fund " 4.0 "Arts and Culture Sector Subsidy Scheme - Providing subsidies to individual art practitioners and freelancers"

A. Preface
In view of another wave of COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong in November 2020, performance venues need to be closed again, and the livelihoods of individual art practitioners and freelancers are once again severely affected. On December 21, 2020, the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council approved another injection of funds into the Anti-epidemic Fund, including an allocation of HK$40 million to the "Arts and Culture Sector Subsidy Scheme - Subsidy to Individual Arts Practitioners and Freelancers" (hereinafter referred to as the "Program"), which will be used to provide one-off subsidies (HK$7,500 per person) to individual arts practitioners and freelancers under the scheme.

B. Funding Eligibility
The Bureau now entrusts the Association to distribute a subsidy of HK$7,500 per person to 415 practitioners (see the attachment for the list) among the 786 practitioners who have received funding from the "Cantonese opera Industry Support Scheme" but have not received funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (hereinafter referred to as the "ADC").

For the remaining 371 practitioners who have received a one-off subsidy of $5,000 from the HKADC's "Arts and Culture Sector Subsidy Scheme", their funding in this round of the "Arts and Culture Sector Subsidy Scheme" will be distributed by the HKADC.

C. Distribution arrangements
Subsidized practitioners can collect the subsidy check in person at the following times and locations with their original ID cards. Location: 2/F, Fu Heng House, 170 Tung Choi Street, Prince Edward (Cantonese Opera Academy of The Chinese Artists Association of Hong Kong). Subsidized practitioners must receive the subsidy check on or before March 31, 2021. Those who fail to receive the subsidy check after the deadline will be deemed to have given up the subsidy.