Comments on: A mid-sized music venue http://yourwellington.org/2009/07/a-mid-sized-music-venue/ Building the city you want Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:45:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack Yan http://yourwellington.org/2009/07/a-mid-sized-music-venue/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Jack Yan Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:41:44 +0000 http://yourwellington.org/?p=51#comment-16 Robert, excellent feedback. I think Wellington needs to examine this seriously, and find the space in the city that makes it appealing to citizens. Newtown wouldn’t be totally out of consideration, in my view: the suburb is growing again both commercially and culturally. Though I have to confess I would lean more to the city, too. Robert, excellent feedback. I think Wellington needs to examine this seriously, and find the space in the city that makes it appealing to citizens. Newtown wouldn’t be totally out of consideration, in my view: the suburb is growing again both commercially and culturally. Though I have to confess I would lean more to the city, too.

]]> By: Robert Catto http://yourwellington.org/2009/07/a-mid-sized-music-venue/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Robert Catto Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:58:13 +0000 http://yourwellington.org/?p=51#comment-11 This has been an obvious gap for years - there's nothing between 300 seats (Ilott / Downstage / Circa / Soundings Theatre) and 1500+ (Opera House / St James / Town Hall / MFC), apart from Te Whaea's theatre in Newtown and the Paramount or Embassy cinemas, neither of which are set up for theatre / music performance really. Unfortunately, from a marketing perspective, the theatre at Te Whaea isn't taken seriously as a venue - and the location does sorta rule it out from serious consideration for most professional productions. This is, of course, why the NZ Int'l Arts Festival creates its own venues of that size - the Festival Club tent and Shed 6 in recent years. I understood that the NZ School of Music building was, in theory, supposed to incorporate a ~500 seat auditorium, though - which would be situated on Civic Square (though I think it's a shame to miss the opportunity to create a national school of music, theatre and dance in Newtown, I have to say!). R This has been an obvious gap for years – there’s nothing between 300 seats (Ilott / Downstage / Circa / Soundings Theatre) and 1500+ (Opera House / St James / Town Hall / MFC), apart from Te Whaea’s theatre in Newtown and the Paramount or Embassy cinemas, neither of which are set up for theatre / music performance really. Unfortunately, from a marketing perspective, the theatre at Te Whaea isn’t taken seriously as a venue – and the location does sorta rule it out from serious consideration for most professional productions. This is, of course, why the NZ Int’l Arts Festival creates its own venues of that size – the Festival Club tent and Shed 6 in recent years.

I understood that the NZ School of Music building was, in theory, supposed to incorporate a ~500 seat auditorium, though – which would be situated on Civic Square (though I think it’s a shame to miss the opportunity to create a national school of music, theatre and dance in Newtown, I have to say!).
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