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vA!
Latest Opening Arrangements
Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (vA!) has been reopened. Admission quotas have been implemented to limit visitor flow. Public programmes have been resumed gradually. Please visit our website for updates.
Visitors to vA! are required to scan the "LeaveHomeSafe" QR code before being allowed to enter, and comply with the requirement of the Vaccine Pass.
Exhibition Hall, Lecture Theatre, Multi-purpose Rooms/Studios, Art Studios have been opened for hire. For details of special booking arrangements, please see here, or contact Booking Office (Tel: 3101 2736).
Visitors to vA! are subject to temperature checks and need to use hand sanitiser before admission. They also need to wear their own masks. Enhanced cleaning and disinfection measures are conducted at vA!.
vA! will pay close attention to the latest developments of the pandemic, and review or revise the above reopening arrangements in due course.
For other enquiries, please call 2521 3008 .
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About vA!
Laying the groundwork for homegrown artistic innovation
Located at the top of Hong Kong Park, the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre – vA! – is housed in Cassels Block, which was built in the first decade of the 20th century as an extension of the British Army's Victoria Barracks to provide married quarters for officers. The barracks were handed over to the government and incorporated in the Hong Kong Park project in 1985. A new wing with a glass canopy was added when Cassels Block was converted into vA!. The Centre was opened in 1992.
Constructed in a cascade down the hillside, the Grade I historic building originally comprised four three-storey quarters with a brick, limewashed façade and a triangular gable in an ancient Greek style between the blocks. The east and west sides featured open colonnaded verandas typical of the Edwardian Classical Revival style.
vA! is an open, multi-directional art space that focuses on art education, research and exchange. Fitted with specialist equipment, the venue is home to exhibition space and an invigorating creative ambience. Whether you are a full-time artist, an amateur enthusiast or just an interested member of the public, vA! is a place nurturing your artistic talent and providing opportunities to create art yourself. We also invite artists to come and conduct cross-disciplinary art experiments, to explore the possibilities of applying technology and knowledge from other disciplines in the creation of art and to identify new directions in projects ranging from digital creation to site-specific and multimedia installations.
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Mission
To promote the fun of art learning
To support creative art making and encourage experiments in art
To support creative art making and encourage experiments in art
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Floor Plan
Barrier-free
Facilities
To strive for a barrier-free art space, vA! is committed to providing equal access for all to ensure that everyone can fully participate and enjoy art. We shall offer suitable assistance to the persons with disabilities if needed in using venue facilities.
Currently, barrier-free facilities and services provided at vA! are:
- Automatic door, barrier-free ramps and Braille and tactile floor plan at the entrance from Kennedy Road
- Barrier-free ramps and tactile guide paths at the public area of each floor
- Tactile-braille indicators and voice-announcement device in the passenger lifts
- Accessible toilets on 2-5/F
- Information counter suitable for wheelchair users on 5/F
- Hearing loop system for hearing-impaired at the information counter on 5/F
- Designated spaces convenient for wheelchair users at the Lecture Theatre on 4/F
- Barrier-free ramps at the entrance from Hong Kong Park
- Audio and visual signals of the emergency alarm system
Access Officer
You are welcome to contact Mr. Geoffrey WONG, Assistant Curator I of the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre at (852) 3101 2733 or the Duty Officer at (852) 2521 3008.
Inclement Weather
Arrangements
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above
Opening :
• If Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above in force before the Centre's Opening Hours, the Centre will be closed.
• If Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above is issued during the Centre's Opening Hours, the Centre will be closed.
• The Centre will resume service within 2 hours if the signal is cancelled or lowered to Signal No.3 or below 3 hours or more before the normal closing time as conditions allow. The Centre will remain closed if the signal is cancelled or lowered to Signal No.3 or below less than 3 hours before the normal closing time.
Black Rainstorm Warning Signal
Opening :
• If Black Rainstorm Warning Signal in force before the Centre's Opening Hours, the Centre will be closed.
• If Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is issued during the Centre's Opening Hours, the Centre will remain open.
• The Centre will resume service within 2 hours if the signal is cancelled 2 hours or more before the normal closing time as conditions allow. The Centre will remain closed if the signal is cancelled less than 2 hours before the normal closing time.
* Extreme Conditions
In the case of serious disruption of public transport services, extensive flooding, major landslides or large-scale power outage caused by a super typhoon, the Government will make an announcement of "extreme conditions".
Opening :
• If "extreme conditions" in force before the Centre's Opening Hours, the Centre will be closed.
• The Centre will resume service within 2 hours if "extreme conditions" is cancelled 3 hours or more before the normal closing time as conditions allow. The Centre will remain closed if "extreme conditions" is cancelled less than 3 hours before the normal closing time.
Programme arrangements # :
Family, children, kindergarten, primary school, special school, child centre, elderly centre, other similar organisation :
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.3 / Red or Black Rainstorm Warning Signal
Programmes not yet held will be cancelled. Programmes already in progress will continue.
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above
All programmes scheduled for that day, including those due to taking place after the signal has been lowered, will be cancelled.
Adult, secondary school, post-secondary school, other similar organisation :
Black Rainstorm Warning Signal
Programmes already in progress will continue. If the signal is in force within three hours before the programmes commence, the activity will be cancelled.
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above
All programmes scheduled for that day, including those due to taking place after the signal has been lowered, will be cancelled.
# Cancelled programmes will be postponed or fees refunded.
For enquiries, please contact us at (852) 2521 3008 or listen to announcements on TV or radio.
Programme arrangements # :
Family, children, kindergarten, primary school, special school, child centre, elderly centre, other similar organisation :
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.3 / Red or Black Rainstorm Warning Signal
Programmes not yet held will be cancelled. Programmes already in progress will continue.
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above
All programmes scheduled for that day, including those due to taking place after the signal has been lowered, will be cancelled.
Adult, secondary school, post-secondary school, other similar organisation :
Black Rainstorm Warning Signal
Programmes already in progress will continue. If the signal is in force within three hours before the programmes commence, the activity will be cancelled.
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above
All programmes scheduled for that day, including those due to taking place after the signal has been lowered, will be cancelled.
# Cancelled programmes will be postponed or fees refunded.
For enquiries, please contact us at (852) 2521 3008 or listen to announcements on TV or radio.
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Hiring Information
Booking Arrangements and Procedures
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Booking Arrangements and Procedures
Download Hiring Application Forms:
Exhibition Hall
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Booking Form
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Exhibition Hall Floor Plan
Art Studios /
Lecture Theatre /
Multi-purpose Room /
Multi-purpose Studios
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Booking Form
* The completed application form, together with all the supporting documents should be sent to the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (Address: 7A Kennedy Road, Central, Hong Kong; Fax :2501 4703). Completed e-fillable pdf form with supplementary documents can also be submit to the GovHK PDF Form Submission System.
* The Ceramics Studios at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre will be temporarily closed between July to November 2022 for renovation works. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.