Warwick Arts Centre
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Warwick Arts Centre (WAC)[1] is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events embracing contemporary and classical music, drama, dance, comedy, films and visual art. Warwick Arts Centre is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, and the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside the Barbican Centre in London.[2][3][4]
Warwick Arts Centre comprises six spaces on the same site, including a concert hall, two theatres, a cinema, art gallery (Mead Gallery), and conference room as well as hospitality suites, a café, shops, and bars. The site also includes the University bookshop.
The centre houses the University of Warwick Music Centre with practice rooms, and an ensemble rehearsal room where music societies and groups rehearse.
Capacities 1,340 (Butterworth Hall), 550 (WAC Theatre), 220 (WAC Cinema),150 (WAC Studio)
References
- ^ http://www.artsteam.co.uk/artsteam/ThenProjects/ProjectRHWL.aspx?id=56 www.artsteam.co.uk
- ^ "Warwick Arts Centre". 19 August 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ "Music Centre Facilities". 15 June 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ "Previous London Korean Film Festivals". Retrieved 19 December 2012.
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