The Arts
The town's largest theatre is the Assembly Hall in Crescent Road, which has a capacity of 1,020.
Nearby, in Church Road, is the Trinity Arts Centre which is a converted church.
The Forum is a 250-capacity live music venue in the town, run by Jason Dormon, where many bands have played their early concerts on their way to success.
The town has a thriving hip hop scene, with graffiti and rap music being very popular with many of the teenagers and youth in the area. Evidence of this is the newly opened graffiti art store Overspray (http://www.overspraygallery.co.uk/contact). The UK hip hop artists Debaitable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYotbXVLSKA) and Bennadict (http://soundcloud.com/benaddict) are active in the area.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)