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Colston Hall’s ?45m refurbishment target
An ambitious £45 million fundraising target to pay for the redevelopment of the Colston Hall will be launched next month.
Among other major changes, the transformation of the venue will see the main auditorium get a larger stage, new balconies and the original Victorian windows brought back into use creating what venue bosses hope to be one of Europe’s leading concert halls.
Elsewhere, the historic spaces of the Victorian hall will become “ornate yet light, grand yet accessible, historic yet cutting-edge… a place that connects the future of creative music making with the traditions of the city”, with The Lantern (formally Hall 2) getting a new lease of life for performance and rehearsal space.
Underneath the Colston Hall, cellars that were used throughout the 19th century as Bristol’s original customs warehouse will be converted for club-style events, teaching facilities, and workshop space and studios, enabling the first public access for 100 years.
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