ACE New Home
Our Vision
ACE Dance and Music bought 82 Milk Street in October 2023. Now we are raising the funding to create a thriving hub out of a semi-derelict car repair workshop in Digbeth.
The new space will:
- have a flexible performance space that can be a 180 seat theatre with retractable seating enabling us to present other Black-led touring companies, our own performances, scratch nights by early career artists and performances by our class students.
- or that can be used as one or two studios with a sprung floor for creation, rehearsals, classes and training.
- be just 10 minutes walk from the city centre, a high-profile, high-quality space for Black-led arts reaching new audiences and participants.
- have an open courtyard space for other activities like making carnival costumes, hosting exhibitions, family activities.
- have improved access for people with disabilities from step free access, induction loop, quiet spaces.
- be more environmentally sustainable benefitting the climate and reducing ACEDM’s running costs from design decisions, heat pumps, solar panels.
Plan
A day in the life of the new ACE Space
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Half studio hired by a local college for their classes 9.30-15.30.
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Half studio used by ACEDM professional company for company class (opened up to other local professional artists) and rehearsals 10.00-17.00.
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Exhibition of photographs of the local area by college students in the courtyard open to the general public 10.00-17.00.
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ACE Youth After School – students on site from 17.00, classes 18.00-20.00
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Adult leisure classes – 18.00-20.00
Our Mission
To promote the power of Dance through cultural exchange.
Our Vision
In the next 10 years ACE dance and music will be a national centre promoting, producing and presenting outstanding contemporary dance inspired by the African Diaspora.