Our success
We are very proud to have been awarded the Regional Performing Arts Centre status (RPAC). With this award comes the exciting development of being given production status – 1 of just 5 RPACS with production status in Wales. Performances and tours we have produced/co-produced include The Bridge (a new jazz commission by Paula Gardiner), a Julie Fowlis tour, Frank Vickery’s Granny Annie and the award-winning drama Blackwatch. We have co-produced work with the National Theatre of Scotland, Theatr Brycheiniog, Blaenau Gwent Arts Services, Spectacle Theatre, Gwent Theatre, Frank Vickery, and many more.
We are an award-winning department – honours we have achieved include winner of the 2004 Youth Excellence Award, winner of the prestigious Chrisi Bailey Award in the area of Digital Media, and the Pop Factory Award for Community Music 2005.
Our venues are used and loved by the community and our participation work is highly regarded . Recent research showed that 97% of customers asked were very satisfied or satisfied with the venues. In the year April 2007 to end of March 2008, total customer usage of the venues was an impressive 258,908. The number of customer attendances to the wide variety of 4,529 arts events staged at the venues was a notable 215,941.
For the same period, the number of attendances at participatory workshops and events was 85,548 – a very exciting result, and up on the previous year by a remarkable 17,750. The number of attendances at Communities First events was 16,157 – again up on last year and proving the value of the popular and innovative Creative Communities scheme.
We keep working hard to bring the community a wide variety of events of the highest quality to a local venue, and increase the number of opportunities for the public to participate in the arts, throughout the borough and at many locations.
