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Wales Millennium Centre in the running for My Theatre Matters! Most Welcoming Theatre Award |
Wales Millennium Centre is up for public vote in the My Theatre Matters! Most Welcoming Award in association with Classic FM. Wales Millennium Centre is one of over 225 arts venues across the UK up for nomination in the inaugural My Theatre Matters! Most Welcoming Theatre Award. Open to public vote for the first time, this is also the first year that the Most Welcoming Theatre Award has accepted entries from all professional theatres nationwide operating in line with the Equity Fringe Agreement. Organised by the Theatrical Management Association (TMA), the UK Theatre Awards are the only nationwide awards honouring creative excellence and outstanding achievement on and off stage throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Online voting is now open at www.mytheatrematters.com/vote-now and closes at midnight on Monday 30th September. To ensure a fair and competitive process, public voting will be weighted by theatre capacity, with the number of public votes divided by the number of venue seats. Director of Wales Millennium Centre, Mat Milsom, said: ‘As Wales’ national centre for the performing arts and its number one visitor attraction, our dedicated team goes to every extent to ensure that each of our 1.5 million customers every year receives the best possible level of customer service. Striving always to be a world class venue, it is essential that the visitor experience at the Centre is of the highest standard. We are passionate about ensuring that the Centre’s offer extends to all areas of the community and that everyone, no matter what their age, interests or background, feels welcome here. Next year marks our 10th Anniversary; it would be wonderful if, with the public’s vote, we could celebrate this landmark year as the UK’s most welcoming theatre.’ To be accessible for all is one of the Centre’s key missions. In order to achieve this the Centre offers a full range of performances, activities and events, runs a busy creative learning programme and numerous community engagement projects. As Wales Millennium Centre visitor David Yewlett from Cardiff has commented, the Centre goes to the greatest lengths to ensure that every customer need is met: ‘The way [the staff] helped us both and others was quite outstanding, nothing was too much trouble for them. Anything we wanted was given with a smile […] The accessibility of all provisions within the theatre made our evening so enjoyable […]The whole evening was so magnificent it made me temporarily forget that I am disabled, the provisions were that good.’ This year’s Most Welcoming Theatre Award forms part of the nationwide My Theatre Matters! campaign aimed at raising public support for local theatres across the UK in response to extreme pressures placed on local government funding. The campaign, led jointly by Equity, The Stage and the TMA, is aimed at generating awareness of the importance of theatre and providing local audiences with the opportunity to voice support for their local theatre and encourage politicians to do the same. As Julian Bird, Chief Executive of the TMA and the Society of London Theatre, said: ‘Theatres play important roles at the heart of our local communities and we hope this vote will provide a platform for the public to get more involved in the UK Theatre Awards and shout about how much they value the work of their local venue.’ Wales Millennium Centre is up for public vote alongside nine other theatres in Wales: Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl, Swansea Grand Theatre, Theatr Colwyn, Chapter, Cardiff, New Theatre Cardiff, Sherman Cymru, St. David's Hall and Venue Cymru. The winning venue will be announced at the 2013 UK Theatre Awards ceremony in London’s historic Guildhall on Sunday 20 October. Wales Millennium Centre won the Most Welcoming Theatre Award in 2008, and was a finalist three years in succession, something no other theatre has achieved. |
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
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