The Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) bookshop in the Foo Tak Building, Wan Chai. ACO manages spaces in the buildings let at below market rate to emerging artists and grass-roots organisations. Photo: Tory Ho The Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) bookshop in the Foo Tak Building, Wan Chai. ACO manages spaces in the buildings let at below market rate to emerging artists and grass-roots organisations. Photo: Tory Ho
The Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) bookshop in the Foo Tak Building, Wan Chai. ACO manages spaces in the buildings let at below market rate to emerging artists and grass-roots organisations. Photo: Tory Ho
Lifestyle /  Arts & Culture

Hong Kong building that’s a hotbed of political thought amid the protests, and how cheap rents allowed artistic community to flourish there

  • Flats let at below-market rates to emerging artists and community activists have transformed a Wan Chai block. Critics have labelled it a base for rioters
  • Public-policy researchers, an artists’ collective, and an online publisher talk about what they do in the Foo Tak Building in Wan Chai

Topic |   Hong Kong protests
Christina Ko
Christina Ko

Updated: 6:38pm, 25 Nov, 2019

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The Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) bookshop in the Foo Tak Building, Wan Chai. ACO manages spaces in the buildings let at below market rate to emerging artists and grass-roots organisations. Photo: Tory Ho The Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) bookshop in the Foo Tak Building, Wan Chai. ACO manages spaces in the buildings let at below market rate to emerging artists and grass-roots organisations. Photo: Tory Ho
The Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) bookshop in the Foo Tak Building, Wan Chai. ACO manages spaces in the buildings let at below market rate to emerging artists and grass-roots organisations. Photo: Tory Ho
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