Library Guides: Library Support for Remote Learning during Campus Closure: Home

Online Book Request Service

To support online teaching and learning, the Library will continue to provide the Online Book Request Service to all Academy staff and students. You can now place online requests for circulating books and audiovisual materials on day loan and pick them up from our Library staff outside the Facilities Service Centre at Wanchai Campus on weekday afternoons.

Please refer to the User Guide on how to request, pick up and return the Library materials.

Should you have any enquiries regarding, this service, please email to library@hkapa.edu or WhatsApp us at 2584-8524.

Library Online Resources

Electronic Databases
All the Library's electronic resources can be found under the Database A-Z. Chinese databases are listed under #.
Digital Collection
HKAPA Digital consists of documents, images, audios and videos of the Academy’s productions, theses, special collections and local performing arts resources. Information can be accessed any time through the Internet.

Free Learning Resources during Coronavirus Pandemic

JSTOR & Artstor
Free access to journals and primary sources
New York Public Library
300,000+ e-books from the NYPL for free
Publishers Weekly
Free access to digital edition of Publisher Weekly from 16 Mar 2020 issue

CCDC Arts Channel
The City Contemporary Dance Company's new "CCDC Art Channel" is a live channel on arts and culture dedicated to hosting various programmes each week, including interviews with artists, the latest on new productions and the Company’s classic works.
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque Connect is the new digital platform by Cirque du Soleil that is putting on live show recording, it is showing ZED! which was only performed in Tokyo. Other shows are available for viewing on Cirque du Soleil's YouTube channel.
Culture in Quarantine
BBC launched Culture In Quarantine across television, radio and online, to give the nation access to the arts at a time when it needs it the most. Providing extraordinary access to shuttered exhibitions, performances and museums, a virtual book festival and much more.
HKBALLET@HOME
Hong Kong Ballet launched an exciting free online channel featuring interactive ballet content.
香港芭蕾舞團宣佈推出「港芭@家」，把舞蹈員、藝術和演出，以親民的方式帶給觀眾。有關詳情及節目時間表，可參閱此網站。
Live From Lincoln Center
Live From Lincoln Center brings the best of the world-class performances captured on Lincoln Center’s campus to audiences at home. Its glittering archive features mesmerizing concerts recorded over the past 40 years by Lincoln Center’s resident companies and hundreds of the world’s greatest artists.
Royal Opera House's Live from Covent Garden
The Royal Opera House announces ‘Live from Covent Garden’, a series of three unique performances as part of thier #OurHouseToYourHouse series to be broadcast live via YouTube and Facebook.
Sadler's Wells Digital Stage
Sadler’s Wells presents a programme of full-length dance performances, films and workshops online while it is closed. (Some of the programmes are only available for UK only)

Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
All the broadcasts start at 7 p.m. Moscow time, each one recording will be available for 24 hours from the end of the broadcast.
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque Connect is the new digital platform by Cirque du Soleil that is putting on live show recording, at the moment it is showing ZED! whihc was only performed in Tokyo.
Culture in Quarantine
BBC launched Culture In Quarantine across television, radio and online, to give the nation access to the arts at a time when it needs it the most. Providing extraordinary access to shuttered exhibitions, performances and museums, a virtual book festival and much more.
Live From Lincoln Center
Live From Lincoln Center brings the best of the world-class performances captured on Lincoln Center’s campus to audiences at home. Its glittering archive features mesmerizing concerts recorded over the past 40 years by Lincoln Center’s resident companies and hundreds of the world’s greatest artists.
National Theatre Live
Starting April 2, you’ll be able to stream National Theatre Live productions through the launch of National Theatre at home.
West Kowloon YouTube channel
An Invitation: On Empty Theatre
In response to lockdown closures and cancellations, Freespace and Edward Lam Dance Theatre invited 30 Hong Kong-based actors to reflect on the meaning of theatre in the absence of audience and performers.The result is a series of intuitive, heartfelt, short solo videos
人約吉場後
九文化區自由空間與非常林奕華合作，邀請三十位本地演員參與《人約吉場後》拍攝計劃，不經綵排，逐一走入自由空間大盒，面對空無一人的觀眾席，直白抒發心中最真實的感受。三十條短片現已上映。
ZLive 活
“ZLive 活”, Zuni Icosahedron's (進念．二十面體) YouTube Channel is a platform that promotes creativity with technology through online live broadcasts and live activities.

香港青苗粵劇團 — 粤劇折子戲演出【網上節目】

康文署為大家送上「香港青苗粵劇團」四齣折子戲－－《孝莊皇后》之〈密誓〉、《打金枝》、《鐵馬銀婚》之〈釋嫌〉同《獅吼記》之〈跪池〉，由青年演員杜詠心、王潔清、關凱珊、林子青、吳立熙、飛鳳兒、袁善婷、陳紀婷和吳國華演出。

一桌兩椅慈善基金YouTube頻道
今回網上籌款粵曲演唱會陣容鼎盛，演出的老倌包括：蓋鳴暉、陳鴻進、龍貫天、尹飛燕、王超群、王潔清、何偉凌、吳仟峰、吳立熙、吳美英、宋洪波、李沛妍、李秋元、李鳳、李龍、杜詠心、阮兆輝、阮德文、梁心怡、梁兆明、梁煒康、陳咏儀、陳嘉鳴等。

所有演出已預早錄影，有關片段已於10月15日開始播映，直至11月1日，每天播放1首曲目。

Collectif Jeune Cinema
250+ experimental films from Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit is streaming his documentaries free worldwide every Tuesday
Films For Action
4500+ Social change documentaries
IDFA
300+ free documentaries of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Contemporary Music Score Collection, UCLA Music Library
The Contemporary Music Score Collection includes the digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
DSO Replay by Season is now free for viewing online.
Live From Lincoln Center
Live From Lincoln Center brings the best of the world-class performances captured on Lincoln Center’s campus to audiences at home. Its glittering archive features mesmerizing concerts recorded over the past 40 years by Lincoln Center’s resident companies and hundreds of the world’s greatest artists.
LPOnline: Summer Sessions
LPO presents four hour-long recitals filmed at Henry Wood Hall. The 2020 sessions celebrate each section of the Orchestra, and the final concert in the series is an all-Beethoven programme to celebrate the composer’s 250th anniversary. The recitals will be streamed fortnightly beginning on Wednesday 15 July, via our YouTube channel.
The Marinsky Online
Online broadcasts of recordings of the Mariinsky Theatre's finest productions and concerts in Saint Petersburg, Russia
OperaVision
Opera Vision is a streaming platform for opera coordinated by Opera Europa, the organisation for professional opera companies and opera festivals. It offers enriched content drawn from a 30 theatre partners.
Opéra national de Paris
The great opera classics available online for free
Royal Opera House's Live from Covent Garden
The Royal Opera House announces ‘Live from Covent Garden’, a series of three unique performances as part of thier #OurHouseToYourHouse series to be broadcast live via YouTube and Facebook.
The Show Must Go On
"The Shows Must Go On" YouTube channel bringing you showtunes, backstage access and full performances from some of the best loved musicals in history!

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