Summary
Plans for a new Aberdeen arts centre have been jeopardised by a rival proposal - but is there a compromise that will keep everybody happy?
ABERDEEN has been a success. Investment in skill and research has made the city a world centre for the technology of oil and gas extraction and their peripheral industries. However, long-term prosperity also needs other kinds of investment. The city needs to be able to keep the people who will sustain it after the oil is gone.See the full content of this document
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Valley of Lost Hope
The arts are a vital part of that sustainability. They are important both to a community's self-esteem and to its ability to attract new people. There has often been generous sponsorship of events in Aberdeen, but the permanent arts infrastructure has not evolved as you might have expected.
Only now is Aberdeen Art Gallery about to embark on a refit to make it once again a fit vehic...See the full content of this document
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