arTs & culTure
2012 Artist Rooms Tour line-up announced
Banff, Glasgow, Leicester and Wakefield are among some of the locations to host 19 new art exhibitions and displays next year as part of the 2012 Artist Rooms Tour. Belfast; Bristol; Dunoon; Hul l;
Linlithgow; Liverpool; Middlesbrough; Perth; Sheffield; and Walsall are also included in the line-up, with works drawn from the Artist Rooms collection. National Galleries of Scotland and Tate
are behind the fourth successive tour, which aims to bring modern and contemporary art to places outside the UK capital cities.
Marlowe Theatre nears opening
Canterbury’s new £25.6m Marlowe Teatre – designed by Keith Williams Architects – will open its doors on 4 October, following a two-year construction project. Work commenced in 2009
with the demolition of the old theatre building, which was first opened in the 1930s as an Odeon Cinema before being turned into a theatre during the mid-1980s. Located next to the River
Stour, Marlowe Teatre will boast a 1,200-seat audito- rium set over three levels and including an orchestra pit for 80 musicians. Canterbury City Council (CCC) will manage
and own the venue, which will accommodate alternative, community and educational proj- ects in the Marlowe Studio. Bars, cafés, a riverside walk and a piazza have also been created as part of the scheme, which
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has received £300,000
Welsh Assembly boost for Swansea schemes
A planned multi-million pound renova- tion of Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is one of three schemes in the city to net Welsh Assembly Government funding. Te attraction will be handed £300,000
through the Regeneration Area initiative towards an upgrade of the condition of the building and the care of its collections. Meanwhile, a £135,000 award will ensure
the completion of a second phase of land- scaping works at Swansea Castle, which is due to open to the public for the first time in 40 years this month.
£16m funding package for new ‘arts research hubs’
Four universities will receive a share of £16m from the Arts and Humanities Research Council towards new ‘Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy’. Te successful institutions will work in
partnership with arts and cultural groups; other universities; and creative businesses to promote research within the sector. One of the four new hubs will be set up
at the University of Lancaster. Queen Mary, University of London, Te University of Dundee and the University of the West of England will house the remaining hubs.
10 Keith Williams Architects are behind the new Marlowe Teatre’s design
has been funded by CCC, Kent County Council and the regional development agency. CCC head of culture and enterprise Janice
McGuinness said: “Tis spectacular contem- porary building sits in the heart of the heritage city and will provide an important stimulus for the creative and tourism economies.”
Arts group announces Selfridges exhibition
Action Space, the London-based visual arts groups for people with learning disabilities, is to work with Te Museum of Everything on a new exhibition at Selfridges. Exhibition #4 will launch on 2 September at the retailer, with 50-self-taught disabled artists’
to see pieces go on show in the store’s windows on Oxford Street and the Ultralounge. Te Workshops of Everything will be deliv-
ered by Action Space alongside Exhibition #4 – allowing learning disabled artists to create work within a supportive atmosphere.
Edinburgh theatre set for £2.6m revamp
Northern Ireland-based H&J Martin has been appointed to undertake a £2.6m refur- bishment of Edinburgh’s Kings Teatre by the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC). Te main contract covers
the first two phases of a three- phase investment programme at the venue, which has been awarded following a formal procurement process. Five companies were short-
listed for the project, with the first stage to include external stone and roof repairs. Due to start in mid-September, phase one will take nine months. Following the pantomime season, the second
phase will get underway with improvements to disabled access; upgraded ventilation; and the development of a new box office.
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www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital Edinburgh’s Kings Teatre is poised to undergo a £2.6m refurbishment A third stage will comprise the renewal of
seating within the stalls, but is subject to a sep- arate tender process. Phase three is due to take place during the final month of stage two.
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