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.
We are very grateful to the Wolfson Foundation for their generous support to help us achieve our vision.
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.