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Dateline: 11th May, 2003 £19m Newcastle Performing Arts Centre Newcastle College's Performing Arts department is to have a new £19m centre which will house dance, drama, music and media studies. Included in the development will be three performance venues, a TV studio, a radio station, twelve recording studios, music facilities including rehearsal rooms, acting and dance centres and lecture theatres. The College has a high reputation for its work in the performing arts and the college hopes that this consolidation of its work on four sites to one will enhance that reputation. The new centre will be the biggest further education centre for the arts and media in the country. The collge offers BTEC HND courses in dance, drama, music theatre, music production and popular music, together with Foundation courses in pop music and jazz dance. It also offers a BMus degree in Jazz, Popular & Commercial Music, A Level Music and National Diplomas in Popular Music and Music Technology. Currently being built acrioss the river in Gateshead is the Sage Music Centre, which will provide a focus for education in classical music. Newcastle and Gateshead are making a joint bid for the City of Culture title for 2008 and are the bookies' favourites at the moment. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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