The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym) has concluded the assessment of the 2016 Community Arts Projects Support Programme applications, with six organizations to receive funding from IC this year.

The six selected projects are: 'Old Friends are not Old Community Arts Project' by the Dream Theatre Association in co-operation with the Macau Saint Anthony's Church; 'This is My Street' by the Macau Designers Association; 'The Merry-Go-Round of the Park of Tales' by the Strawberry Fields Arts Education Workshop; 'Telling Stories Out Loud' by the 'Comuna de Pedra' Arts and Culture Association; 'The New Language of the Butterfly Valley' - One Person One Story Plan' by the Zero Distance Co-operative from the Community Cohesion Programme; and 'Community Theatre - We also have Stories' by Macau Experimental Theatre.

This year, the programme received 32 applications. In assessing them the jury considered content, creativity, budget, participation of residents or social groups, the capabilities of the associations as well as the correlation between the projects and the goals of the Community Arts Projects Support Programme of each application. The jury judged a first assessment round of the applications submitted, a second assessment round of interviews with several associations, and a final round of discussion and evaluation, selecting, in the end, six projects which will receive IC funding, to be launched in 2016.

The list of selected associations and related information can be downloaded from the IC website at: www.icm.gov.mo.