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Hong Kong: the Facts Leisure and Culture Hong Kong residents have access to a wide range of sports, the Department of Health jointly organised the Healthy recreational and cultural facilities. Many of these are built and Exercise for All Campaign. Due to the impact of COVID-19, managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department only 382 out of 1 000 planned programmes could actually be (LCSD). The main objective of the department is to enrich the organised in 2020-21. These attracted around 17 000 community’s quality of life through the promotion and participants in total. Those programmes included Dance Night provision of recreational and cultural facilities and activities. under Dance for Health, QualiWalk, Hiking Scheme, Rope Skipping Activities, Fitness Training Courses for Children and Leisure Services: The LCSD provides facilities to foster Outreach Fitness Programmes for Persons with Disabilities public participation in recreation and sports activities and and the Elderly. Besides, health education and physical organises a wide range of programmes. It also beautifies the exercise-related materials were produced in the form of DVDs, environment through planting of trees and other plants in leaflets and booklets, and uploaded onto a dedicated public parks and amenity areas. webpage in the LCSD website so as to encourage a healthy lifestyle through regular participation in physical activities and Recreational and Sports Venues: There are a great number sports. of facilities to provide leisure services, including 25 sports To intensify the promotion of Sport for All in the grounds, 44 swimming pool complexes, 41 gazetted bathing community and to support the National Fitness Day, the LCSD beaches, 102 sports centres, 83 turf pitches, 234 hard- organised the Sport For All Day in August 2020. To align with surfaced mini-soccer pitches, 531 basketball courts, 252 the Government-wide anti-epidemic measures, the LCSD tennis courts, 292 squash courts and 665 leisure venues webcasted a series of physical fitness exercise demonstration providing children's playgrounds. Other facilities such as videos via the dedicated website and the LCSD Edutainment hockey pitches, horse riding schools and golf driving ranges Channel, with a view to encouraging members of the public to are also provided. The LCSD also manages five water sports exercise at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. centres (Stanley Main Beach, St Stephen’s Beach, Chong The Sports Subvention Scheme provides financial Hing, The Jockey Club Wong Shek and Tai Mei Tuk) and four assistance to National Sports Associations (NSAs) and Sports holiday camps (Lei Yue Mun Park, Lady MacLehose Holiday Organisations (SOs) for organising sports programmes and Village, Sai Kung and Tso Kung Tam Outdoor Recreation training athletes. In 2020-21, the scheme provided Centres). To tie in with the Government’s preventing and subventions for NSAs and SOs to organise some 4 650 sports combating COVID-19 measures as well as to alleviate the promotion events for about 303 790 participants. The scheme effects of the public health emergency triggered by COVID-19, includes the Young Athletes Training Scheme to identify the four holiday camps were converted into quarantine centres talented young players and District Sports Teams Training and temporary accommodation in January 2020. Since then, Scheme for enhancing a stronger sense of belonging among they have been used to facilitate the medical surveillance of residents. those who may have been exposed to the risk of contracting The School Sports Programme and the Community COVID-19 but who are nonetheless asymptomatic. The Sports Club Project, launched by the department, have been 12 500-seat Hong Kong Coliseum and the 3 500-seat Queen further promoting sports and cultivating a new sport culture in Elizabeth Stadium are the focal points for important indoor Hong Kong. The aim of the two programmes is to provide sporting events while the 40 000-seat Hong Kong Stadium is more opportunities for students and members of the public to a major venue for staging large-scale sporting and spectator participate in sports. Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in events. 2020-21, the number of activities organised under the School Sports Programme was reduced to 815 with 248 990 students Recreation and Sports Activities: The LCSD organises and participating. Subsidies were granted for community sports promotes various leisure activities for people of all ages. In clubs to organise about 960 sports development programmes 2020-21, the department organised some 7 400 recreation for some 20 230 participants. and sports activities for 400 000 participants of all ages and abilities. Hong Kong Games (HKG): With a view to further promoting To encourage the public to improve their health through Sport for All in the community, the LCSD collaborated with the participating in physical activities and sports, the LCSD and Sports Commission and its Community Sports Committee, 18 GovHK Website: http://www.gov.hk Leisure and Cultural Services Department July 2021 Information contained in this publication may be freely used. Home Page address: No acknowledgement is necessary. http://www.lcsd.gov.hk District Councils, the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee venue attracting overseas leading artists and local major of Hong Kong, China and the relevant NSAs to hold the HKG performing companies, and a prime performance venue for biennially from 2007 onwards. The 8th HKG, originally large-scale arts festivals. It houses a 1 971-seat Concert Hall, scheduled to be held from 2020 to 2021, was postponed for a a 1 734-seat Grand Theatre and a 303-496 seat Studio year to 2021 and 2022 due to COVID-19. An online mascot Theatre. voting activity was conducted in 2020 which attracted more than 3 000 votes and resulted in ‘Cheering Larry’ being Hong Kong City Hall: Established in 1962, the Hong Kong selected as the mascot of the HKG. Two out of three webinars City Hall is the first multi-purpose cultural complex built to of the Hong Kong Games – The New Normal of Sports and enhance the quality of life amongst the Hong Kong Wellness Series were launched in this period with a total community. Its classic Bauhaus-style of architecture has attendance of 2 142 to disseminate exercise and health made it one of Hong Kong’s landmarks since inception. The messages to the public. complex was designated as a Grade 1 historic building by the Antiquities Advisory Board in late 2009. Hong Kong City Hall Horticulture and Landscape Services: The LCSD is plays an important role in popularising the arts and promoting responsible for improving the environment with landscape Eastern and Western cultures. Its facilities include a 1 430- planting, beautification schemes and tree preservation. It seat Concert Hall, a 463-seat Theatre, a Recital Hall, an manages 1 674 parks and gardens of various sizes, including Exhibition Hall and an Exhibition Gallery. 26 major parks throughout Hong Kong. Since 2000, the LCSD has been holding the annual Hong Yau Ma Tei Theatre: The Theatre was constructed in 1930 Kong Flower Show at Victoria Park. The show is a highlight in and is a Grade 2 historic building. The Theatre and the the local horticultural calendar. It provides a good opportunity adjacent Red Brick Building (Grade 1 historic building) have for hundreds of thousands of local citizens and plant lovers been revitalised as a performance base dedicated to Chinese from all over the world to appreciate the beauty of flowers and opera performances and activities, and as a training and share their experiences in horticulture. Featuring gorgeous performance venue for budding Cantonese opera talents. It landscape displays and beautiful floral arrangements, the was reopened in 2012 to house a 300-seat Theatre. show also offers a rich diversity of fringe activities for the enjoyment of visitors of all ages including music and cultural Hong Kong Coliseum and Queen Elizabeth Stadium: performances, floral art demonstrations, guided tours, Opened in 1980 and 1983 respectively, the 3 500-seat Queen horticultural talks, drawing and photo competitions, green Elizabeth Stadium and the 12 500-seat Hong Kong Coliseum activities workshops and fun games. However, the Hong Kong are two well-equipped multi-purpose indoor stadia most Flower Show 2021, originally scheduled to be held from March suitable for large-scale sports, cultural and entertainment 12 to 21 at Victoria Park, was morphed into exquisite garden programmes. The Coliseum in particular is a leading venue for plots displayed at designated parks across the 18 districts and major international sports events, cultural and entertainment presented virtually online from March 19 to April 19, 2021 for spectaculars such as pop concerts. a new browsing experience due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The total page-view was over 240 000. Other Venues: Other performance venues in the territory To enhance public awareness about greening the including Sha Tin Town Hall, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Tuen environment, a series of interesting and educational green Mun Town Hall, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Yuen Long Theatre, activities such as Green Volunteer Scheme, Greening School Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre, Ngau Subsidy Scheme, ‘One Person, One Flower’ Scheme, Chi Wan Civic Centre, Ko Shan Theatre and New Wing, North Community Garden Programme, Community Planting Day, District Town Hall and Tai Po Civic Centre are the foci for Horticulture Education Exhibition, horticultural courses and cultural activities in the community level. seminars are also organised for public participation every year. Cultural Festivals and Performances: Cultural life of Hong Kong is enriched by the year-round cultural and entertainment Cultural Services: The LCSD provides a wide range of programmes organised by the LCSD. The LCSD strives to performance facilities, cultural and entertainment present world-class programmes by top-notch overseas programmes to promote the development and appreciation of artists to broaden the horizons of audience and arts performing and visual arts.
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