Brewery Arts Centre
The Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal is a hub of creativity in the small South Lakes town.
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From humble beginnings as a small theatre, the centre now has a 450 capacity music venue, three cinemas, visual arts and photographic galleries, a drama studio, art and crafts workshops, darkroom facilities, playgroup and meeting rooms, a great restaurant, the famous Vats Bar, an art-house cinema and Warehouse Cafe and a fantastic theatre seating 260. The Brewery is known nationally as a centre for world-class theatre, music, art and events, which, for a rural market town, is a true asset. It also hosts international festivals such as the Kendal Mountain Festival, the Women's Art International Festival and Gateway International Roots Music Festival. Since 1972 the Brewery Arts Centre has hosted thousands of exciting and vibrant artistic events with many famous names gracing the stages of the Malt Room and Theatre performance spaces. The Brewery has also evolved to become one of the most important education centres for the arts in the North West with an extensive programme of arts based learning for youth and adult learners. The Brewery gardens are the last remaining of many which would once have flourished behind the town houses lining Highgate. The steps to the upper garden, leading to the terraced garden have recently been restored to their original grandeur. The Brewery Arts Centre opened after the premises were converted from the old Vaux Brewery, hence the name. Whitwell, Mark and Co ("The House of Whitwell") established a wine business on this site in 1757, with cellars said to hold over 40,000 gallons of wine. In 1853 the company built a new ale brewery in the garden of the Georgian town house that still fronts the Brewery on Highgate. By 1900 Whitwell Marks' Kendal was one of the town's largest employers and best known industries. In 1946 the firm was taken over by Vaux Breweries of Sunderland and in 1971, when they relocated the offices, the town house became a Youth Hostel and the industrial buildings began the conversion into the Brewery Arts Centre. Grid Reference: SD 51413 92384 Address (near): Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE, UK
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