An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum . An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, workshop areas, educational facilities, technical equipment, etc.
6-532: The Queens Park Arts Centre is an independent arts centre and theatre in Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire , England. Queens Park Arts Centre offers more than 100 workshops on a weekly basis, covering artistic disciplines such as pottery, painting & drawing, drama, dance, music, woodwork, textiles and jewellery making. Additional classes run during the school holidays, whilst other one-off workshops explore more specialised subjects such as blacksmithing. Queens Park
12-565: Is also the home of the Limelight Theatre, a 120-seater venue which offers live music, theatre and comedy on Friday and Saturday nights. Acts who have performed at the theatre include Eddie Izzard , Jo Brand , John Otway , Wild Willy Barrett and Chris Ramsey . Additional facilities at the Centre include multiple exhibition spaces, a Coffee Shop, licensed bar, and a shop selling art supplies and resources. The Centre regularly holds events for
18-652: Is the Chief Executive at the centre. The centre's Limelight Theatre Manager is Dario Knight. Ellie Kirkup is currently the Arts Centre Co-ordinator. Queens Park Arts Centre is based in a former Edwardian primary school and receives no funding from local government . It is the largest independent arts centre in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1980 and was first directed by Malcolm Thackwray through funding by Buckinghamshire County Council. In 1998,
24-512: The Bluecoat Society of Arts was founded in Liverpool in 1927 following the efforts of a group of artists and art lovers who had occupied Bluecoat Chambers since 1907. Most British art centres began after World War II and gradually changed from mainly middle-class places to 1960s and 1970s trendy , alternative centres and eventually in the 1980s to serving the whole community with
30-733: The Centre became an independent company when its government funding was withdrawn. £325,000 was raised to purchase the freehold to the site, which was secured in 2009. Since then in excess of £200,000 has been raised to refurbish and restore the building. This article about an art or artists' organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Arts centre In the United States , "art centers" are generally either establishments geared toward exposing, generating, and making accessible art making to arts-interested individuals, or buildings that rent primarily to artists, galleries, or companies involved in art making. In Britain ,
36-495: The local community, including Art & Craft Fairs and Maker's Fairs. Successful projects at the Centre included the WanderHouse Outreach Project - which has enabled artistic collaborations with thousands of children in schools across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, and still ongoing, Unbound - the Centre's resident theatre company which stages multiple productions each year, including a pantomime . Sarah Lewis
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