History & MissionThe Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong was formed as a non-government organization in 1986 following the success of the first Hong Kong Festival of Arts with the Disabled. Since its inception, it has been promoting the idea that Arts are for Everyone that is everyone has potential for creativity and a right to enjoy to the beauty and vitality of the arts.
Arts & LifeADA believes that persons with disability should have equal opportunity to enjoy, partake in and have access to the arts. It organises exhibition, stage performances and festivals to enable persons with disability to demonstrate how they use different artforms to express their own experience of life and react to the social environment. ADA takes a broad definition of art. Art is not just drama, dance, music, literature, film, video or visual arts. Thus, ADA also organises other activities related to leisure and living skills including floral arrangement, kite-design and flying, cookery and waste re-use. These are the arts of the everyday life.
WorkshopsADA also runs training classes and workshops across all artforms. The objective is to generate interests, teach skills, instill confidence, unleash imagination, release creativity and empower the individual and the community.
To promote cultural exchange and training. ADA commits itself to sending artists with disability abroad to take part in regional and international events such as Very Special Arts Festivals, Wataboshi Music Festivals, International Abilympics. ADA also invites cultural specialists and artists from abroad for similar purposes. ADA is an affiliate of VSA arts.
Scholarship & SponsorshipADA provides sponsorship and scholarship to groups and individuals with and without disabilities to promote artistic excellence, training and further studies in arts with the disabled.
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