pounds 10m arts centre has green light; EDUCATION: Gift aids school's plan.Byline: Tony Collins A pounds 10 million performing arts centre An art center or arts centre 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, in Birmingham, backed by a wealthy financier's substantial gift to his old school, has been granted planning permission. The arts centre, to be built at the neighbouring King Edward's School King Edward's School or King Edward VI School is the name of several schools in England, the majority of them founded during the reign of King Edward VI of England. There are also schools named after King Edward VII. and King Edward VI High School for Girls King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) (grid reference SP051836) is an independent secondary school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. One of the most academically successful schools in the country, it is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward in Edgbaston, is to boast a 430-seat concert hall with a drama studio and rehearsal and dance studio on separate floors. The new building is due to be completed in the autumn of 2011. It is to be called the Paul and Jill Ruddock rud·dock n. Chiefly British An Old World robin (Erithacus rubecula) having olive-brown upper plumage and a conspicuous orange breast. Performing Arts Centre after the former schoolboy benefactor and his wife. Mr Ruddock is believed to have donated several million pounds to the scheme in gratitude for the start he enjoyed at King Edward's School. The chairman of London's Victoria and Albert Museum Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of applied art bought from the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the instigation of the won a free place at the fee-paying school in the 1970s and is now looking to repay them in a massive way. Sarah Evans, head of King Edward VI High, said: "We are delighted that planning permission has now been granted. This is a hugely exciting project which will revolutionise opportunities for our young people." John Claughton, chief master of King Edward's School, "This is the biggest development here since the two schools moved from New Street in 1936." CAPTION(S): Impressive: An artist's impression of the building. |
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