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Dateline: 21st September, 2003 Scottish Ballet to Take Over the Tramway Scottish Ballet is proposing to take over Glasgow's Tramway, The Glasgow Herald reports. The company has been looking for a new home for some years, as their current premises in West Princes Street are run down and not really suitable. They have looked, they say, at over 200 alternatives and believe that the Tranway is the one best suited to their needs. They have applied to the National Lottery for funding to turn Tramway 2 into rehearsal rooms and office facilities. The proposal has infuriated the city's visual arts community which has used the words "vandalism" and "a tragedy" to describe the move. The Tramway, which was revamped three years ago at a cost of £3.5m (£1.1m from Glasgow City Council, £2.3m from the Scottish Arts Council and £100,000 from the Glasgow Development Agency), is an internationally famous visual arts venue which has been the inspiration behind such developmentsd as the Tate Modern in London and Gateshead's Baltic. It has also launched a number of Scottish artists on international careers. Professor Seona Reid, director of the Glasgow School of Art, said,"Glasgow has developed over the last ten to fifteen years an extraordinary international reputation for the visual art. Our visual artists are operating on the world stage and that brings extraordinary value and profile to the city. Tramway is an essential element of that ecology and yet it is going to be removed. Tramway is iconic, it is known the world over, and the notion that it is going to be taken away to make it a private thing seems to me to be just vandalism. It is irreplaceable." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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