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Dateline: 26th October, 2006
New Welsh Culture Centre Alun Pugh, the Welsh Assembly Minister for Culture has announced that he has earmarked an additional £250,000 in capital funding in this year’s draft budget towards creating a multi use Culture Centre in Merthyr. The new facility will combine a theatre and arts centre with facilities for small creative businesses and individual artists - bringing together a community of activity and providing a centre for the cultural industries in the region. The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) will work with three other major stakeholders on this project - the Heads of the Valleys Partnership, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council and the University of Glamorgan. Alun Pugh said, “Merthyr has a rich cultural heritage and its people want to participate and experience the arts. Yet local access to culture has been poor. A culture centre for Merthyr and the heads of the valleys area is long overdue. Culture and the arts has an important part to play in building stronger communities. ” A feasibility study will now take place and will involve extensive community consultation to establish the needs of the community and future opportunities for the region. The Minister also announced that an additional £250,000 would be provided to support the development on English Language Theatre in Wales. This is in addition to the £500,000 that the Minister announced at the Arts Council of Wales’s conference in May 2006. Proposals developed by the Arts Council of Wales for English Language Theatre in Wales will be discussed in the Assembly’s Culture Committee on Thursday. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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