Open Stage Scheme and West Kowloon Street Performance Scheme are the closest mechanisms Hong Kong have to a licensing system

(an outdoor performance scheme for qualified performers to showcase their talents) 

Facts about the City of Chicago Street Performer License 

It talked about the rules street performers have to follow plus the penalty, their time and noise limit.

To weed out acts of poor quality.

Under the scheme, applicants are assessed on the content, artistic level and safety of their performances. The assessment panel includes a member of the cultural sector, a district councillor and a representative of the LCSD. (The street performance will become standardized , losing its uniqueness and variety. What about people who doesn’t really take street performance as a profession. Street performance should be a right not a competition. It is a culture we don’t need judges to tell us who is good and who is not ,audience will decide itselves. )

2) promote the appreciation of street performance 

A 27-year-old musician JL, has been performing at Time Square for more than four years and he thinks buskers are often treated like beggars on the street. A well-structured licensing scheme which would recognize street performers and give them an identity.

encourage street performers to make use of public space 

(many limitations to the performers and the locations were far away from the crowd)

 well-structured licensing scheme  

4)  Police inspections will be easier 

Now anyone can perform as long as they have the HKID card but you shouldn’t forget that there are foreigners who also busk in Mong Kok , and because they don’t have the HKID they are often stopped by the police. Don’t they have the right to perform or street performance in hong kong is only for hong kongers  

(Buskers shouldn’t be regulated through official policies they can  regulate themselves instead by coordinating among themselves to prevent problems such as noise or the occupation of public space. Street performance should be natural and that any third party intervention should be avoided.”)   (If there is a complaint about the noise level then the police can control the situation much better whereas now police is often ignored by people.) 

First speaker

Good afternoon ladies and gentleman.Today our motion is that THBT the HK government should license street performers.Let me start by defining the motion.According to oxford dictionary license means “Authorize the use, performance, or release of (something)”.

Second speaker

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.  First of all, I would like to respond to the negative team.  They claimed that…However…

 

Now back to my case, our team line is that…

 

From the culture POV, street performances culture can be spread in a legal way after applying the license. According to a street performer, JL, he claimed that one of the biggest problems buskers face is being treated like beggars on the street. (rebuttal) Therefore, one way to overcome this is for there to be a well- structured licensing scheme which recognize street performers and the government should give them an legal identity. Hong Kong called street performances to busking and they always perform in Causeway Bay or Mong Kok so as to finding more audience. It not only can take a break from our busy lives, but also becoming a culture for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a diverse city with different with different kinds of artists so busking is a form of expression and a platform that helps budding talent people. As a result, the government should give them the identities so that the performers will be increases their acceptability by the public and let them to spread our busking culture to worldwide.

From the social POV, the government licenses street performances can benefit different skates. According to Hong Kong 01, a Japanese street performer called Mr. Wally who was stopped by the police from performing in Mong Kok because he is no local. Although he had a working holiday visa, he was still driven away by the police. According to the Immigration Department, all holders of working holiday visas do not have to apply for a Hong Kong ID within 180 days. Therefore, it definitely not fair to the oversea performers who want to perform in Hong Kong. Mr Wally is a well-known performer in Hong Kong and Hong Kong like his performances very much. Hong Kong people felt very angry after listening this bad news. As a result, the government should license the street performances to let oversea performers apply this and perform in Hong Kong. 

As you can see, today’s motion must stand.

Prevent having same type performance to guarantee performers’ income