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UNESCO awardwinners 2010
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David Hill is Chair of the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. This is a voluntary position.

The Crescent is celebrating over 30 years as a community arts centre. The Crescent's permanent home at 2-4 University Road has undergone a £7m refurbishment, reopening with a week-long arts festival in April 2010. The project has restored and rejuvenated a Grade B+ listed building with a rich history (it is the former home of Victoria College, a pioneering school for girls) and an exciting future. The refurbishment has been recognised with a William McKeown Trust award for accessibility.

The Crescent website can be accessed here. On the website you can find full details of all classes and activities as well as details of special events, download the latest programme and add yourself to the mailing list.

The Crescent is thought to have the largest swift colony in Northern Ireland, and protecting the birds has been an inherent element of the refurbishment project. Swifts (apus apus) are increasingly disappearing due to modern building techniques and the Crescent building now incorporates swift boxes - bricks with cavities specially designed to provide a summer home for these fascinating birds - to ensure that the swifts were able to return again in 2010 and will do so for many years to come.

The Crescent and its partners in the refurbishment were awarded the UNESCO "Man and the Biosphere" award in 2010 in recognition of the steps taken to secure the future of the swift colony in the building.

LATEST: Crescent Arts Centre has won three prestigious RICS awards for 2011. The Crescent refurbishment has scooped top prize for Community Benefit but also the grand prize of Overall Project of the Year 2011. Congratulations and thank you to the many people and organisations who have contributed to the realisation of the project!





























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