2007 International Year of Dolphin Art and Design Competition

2007 International Year of Dolphin

Art and Design Competition

2007國際海豚年美術設計創作比賽

為進一步推動香港美術教育，本局每年均舉辦世界性美術設計創作比賽，今年已踏入第八屆。去年舉辦之《2006國際沙漠及荒漠化年美術設計創作比賽》，吸引了不少本港及海外的學校參加，共有十四個不同地區或國家、四百多個參賽單位、約二千二百份參賽作品，水準之高，令人鼓舞非常，足見各界對美術比賽的支持。

有見及此，本局將於今年十一月再次主辦世界美術設計創作比賽。由於聯合國將今年訂為「國際海豚年」，故將是次比賽命名為《2007國際海豚年美術設計創作比賽》，教育局、香港教育學院、香港城市大學及香港美術教育協會亦將繼續與本局合作協辦是項比賽，希望藉此提高學生保護海豚的意識，並使其學懂保護人類與海豚共同的家──地球。

Po Leung Kuk, together with the Education Bureau, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Society for Education in Art, are delighted to launch the captioned competition, and is now calling for students’ participation.

The 8^th Art and Design Competition aims at promoting art education, improving the standard of art in Hong Kong and facilitating cultural exchange. Last year, there were over 1,400 entries for Hong Kong Competition whereas there were more than 400 schools from 14 countries/regions with about 1,100 entries for International Competition.

With 2007 declared the “Year of the Dolphin” by the United Nation, the competition is named “2007 International Year of Dolphin Art and Design Competition”, which will be held in the coming November. It is expected that students would learn how to protect the wild dolphins and maintain the shared habitat of dolphins and human being, our “Earth”, through this competition.