YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL
青年藝術節 2024
Promote youth participation in local cultural and artistic creation, fostering personal quality development.
Provide a platform for young people to exchange and learn from each other, promoting cultural and artistic exchange among all young college students and primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong.
Event Introduction
Activity objectives
The fusion and creation of
Chinese and Western art
Provide a platform for young people who love calligraphy and painting to showcase their works, and bring excellent pieces into the community, allowing art to integrate into the lives of citizens. Promote the creation of Chinese and Western artistic culture, and facilitate artistic exchanges and integration across different cultural backgrounds.
Cultural exchange and quality cultivation
Build a platform for communication and mutual learning, promote cultural exchanges among young people, and cultivate personal qualities and innovative abilities. Facilitate artistic exchanges among youth in different educational stages across Hong Kong, and expand the influence of art education.
Community Art Promotion
Bringing cultural arts into the community through artistic activities enhances the cultural atmosphere of the community and promotes the popularization of community arts.
Provide opportunities for youth to showcase their talents.
Encourage young people to showcase and sell their handmade creations and skills, provide initial entrepreneurship experiences, and form teams for youth who love dancing, demonstrating their vitality and creativity.
Organizer
Supporting unit
Sponsor
Calligraphy / Chinese Painting / Western Painting
Calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, and Western painting activities are a convergence of art and culture.
Calligraphy conveys the essence of Chinese culture with brush and ink, showcasing the artistic charm that penetrates the page; traditional Chinese painting captures the harmony of nature and humanity with ink and colors, conveying profound Eastern philosophical thoughts; Western painting, on the other hand, explores the diversity of Western art with oils and canvas, presenting the interplay of color and light.
Youth Market
The Youth Market is the creative hub of the 'Youth Arts Festival', gathering a group of passionate and innovative young creators. Here, you can find a diverse range of stalls featuring handicrafts, independent design, and creative cuisine, each piece of work infused with the creator's effort and story.
The market not only provides young people with an opportunity to showcase and sell their works but also creates a space for participants to exchange ideas and share creativity, while also injecting new cultural vitality into the community.
Dance Performance
The dance performance activity brings the freedom and energy of dance to the streets.
These flash mob activities organized by young people who love dance usually perform suddenly in crowded public places, attracting the attention of passersby in unexpected ways. Participants showcase their creativity and vitality through various forms of dance, while also bringing surprises and joy to the public, making dance a part of urban culture.
Calligraphy / Chinese painting / Western painting
Competition Group
The competition is divided into 5 categories, and the eligibility to participate is for youths aged 6 to 29 in Hong Kong.
Primary Junior Group (6 years old to Primary Three)
Senior Primary Group (Grade 4 to Grade 6)
Junior Secondary Group (Form 1 to Form 3)
Senior Secondary Group (Form 4 to Form 6)
Open Group (ages 17-29)
Preliminary round
Deadline for receiving entries: October 7 (Monday) based on the postmark
Conduct preliminary judging work: October 14 to 20
Participants will first submit their entries to the competition by mail. After review by the judging panel, a total of 125 participants will be selected for the finals (5 age groups, 25 people each). Finalists will be individually notified via email, and the list of finalists will also be announced on the event's Facebook page.
Final
Final competition date for calligraphy, Chinese painting, and Western painting projects: October 26 (Saturday) tentatively.
The finals topic will be announced in advance. Finalists must complete their works in accordance with the rules at the designated location and time on the finals day. The winners will be announced on the same day, and the jury will provide feedback on the works, allowing all participants to gain insights and improve.
touring exhibition
Award Ceremony and Touring Exhibition: Tentatively scheduled for mid-December (Sunday)
Youth Arts Festival 2024 Touring Exhibition: From December 2024 to January 2025
Calligraphy
Competition rules
Topic: Participants must write according to the competition topic on the specified paper, size, and format.
Title: All participants must write their names and titles on the work.
Paper: Nine-grid paper or rice paper; the dimensions are specified after the competition title according to the group.
Font: No restrictions
Format: Written in Traditional Chinese, from top to bottom, and from right to left.
Group: calculated for the 2024–2025 academic year
Preliminary competition questions for each group
Primary junior group (6 years old to grade 3)
Title: 客心爭日月 來往預期程 秋風不相待 先至洛陽城
唐 張說詩 《蜀道後期》
Paper: 玉扣紙綠線水印 nine-square grid (small square 5x5cm)
Senior primary group (Grade 4 to Grade 6)
Title: 天上碧桃和露種 日邊紅杏倚雲栽 芙蓉生在秋江上 不向東風怨未開
唐 高蟾詩 《上高侍郎》
Paper: 玉扣紙綠線水印 nine-square grid (small square 5x5cm)
Junior Secondary Group (Form 1 to Form 3)
Title: 紫陌紅塵拂面來 無人不道看花回 玄都觀裏桃千樹 盡是劉郎去後栽
唐 劉禹錫詩 《元和十年自朗州至京戲贈看花諸君子》
Paper: 宣紙 - not exceeding half sheet (14 inches x 26 inches) / (14 inches x 52 inches)
Senior Secondary (Form Four to Form Six)
Title: 百畝庭中半是苔 桃花淨盡菜花開 種桃道士歸何處 前度劉郎今又來
唐 劉禹錫詩 《再遊玄都觀》
Paper: 宣紙 - not exceeding half sheet (14 inches x 26 inches) / (14 inches x 52 inches)
Open Group (ages 17-29)
Title: 蘭陵美酒鬱金香 玉碗盛來琥珀光 但使主人能醉客 不知何處是他鄉
唐 李白詩 《客中行》
Paper: 宣紙 - not exceeding half sheet (14 inches x 26 inches) / (14 inches x 52 inches)
Entries from previous years
Chinese painting
Preliminary contest question
For the 2024-2025 academic year, participants can choose one of the topics from their group.
Elementary and Advanced Groups: Dream Garden（夢幻花園） / Ideal Village（理想的村莊） / Underwater World（海底世界）
Junior and Senior Secondary Groups: The flowers bloom in spring（春暖花開） / Joyful and harmonious（樂融融） / Looking at the quiet mountains（遠望群山靜）
Open Group: The bright moon shines between the pines, clear springs flow over the stones（明月松間照 清泉石上流） / The bright moon rises over the Tianshan Mountains, amidst the vast sea of clouds（明月出天山 蒼茫雲海間） / Bird language and floral fragrance bring rich spring feelings（鳥語花香春意濃） / The moon and flowers make one dreamy（花月使人迷）
Use paper
Material
To achieve a bleeding effect in the painting, you can choose from raw rice paper, including: pure single rice paper, special pure, mixed rice paper, sandalwood paper, etc.
If the work does not require a soaking effect, you can choose熟宣或半生熟宣, including: alum paper, cicada clothing, mica, imitation ancient rice paper, general fan card paper, etc.
Size
2×2 feet
A 2×4 feet open four sheets (i.e., four open)
One 2×4 feet open three sheets (which is four feet three open).
A 2×4 feet sheet cut into two pieces (i.e., half cut)
Entries from previous years
Western painting
Preliminary competition topic
Each group is calculated based on the academic year 2024-2025, regardless of the grouping, and participants can choose one of the topics on their own.
60年後的世界 - The world in 60 years
驟雨中的陽光 - Sunlight in a sudden rain
離鄉背井 - Leaving home and going far away
Paint
Advertising colors / Watercolors / Pastels / Acrylics / Colored pencils (the above pigments can be mixed)
paper
drawing paper
Size: Double crown (23 inches x 15 inches) or Quad crown (11.5 inches x 15 inches)
The final competition paper will be provided by the organizers. Participants must prepare their own brushes, paints, containers, and canvas, among other tools.
Entries from previous years
Dance Family
青年快閃舞
Dance audition
Selection requirements
Participants must be secondary school students aged 29 and younger.
The body and health condition are normal, able to handle a series of dance rehearsals and outdoor street performances.
Willing to attend the rehearsals and performances arranged for the conference.
Selection content
The instructor will arrange a dance test on the spot to assess the participants' dance ability and sense of rhythm.
Test participants' basic activity ability
Registration deadline
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Selection date and location
July 7, 2024 (Sunday)
Room 2, 12th Floor, Wah Shing Industrial Centre, 11 Cheng Yip Street, Kwun Tong
Reward
Selected participants will receive a certificate of appreciation.
Selection Time
Please arrive for registration 15 minutes before the selection time.
Selection 1: 17:00 – 17:50
Selection 2: 17:50 – 18:40
Selection 3: 18:40 – 19:30
Other remarks
Bring your own pen, water, and towel.
During the selection process, participants may prepare their own one-minute freestyle performance.
Selected participants will be individually notified by July 10, 2024, and will be published on our Facebook.
The organizer reserves the right to revise and interpret all competition rules and guidelines at any time. The event has the right to retain winning works for exhibition, publish special editions, or provide them to the government and other organizations for non-commercial publication.
Flash performance
Dance performance date: August 25 (Sunday) Performance will take place
Location: Various areas in Hong Kong
(The above information is subject to confirmation)
touring exhibition
Award Ceremony and Touring Exhibition: Tentatively scheduled for mid-December (Sunday)
Youth Arts Festival 2024 Touring Exhibition: From December 2024 to January 2025