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Imagineer Productions

14 hours ago

Today we received the keys to The Daimler Powerhouse building!

To celebrate this amazing occassion we commissioned a special aerial dance to mark the completion. Aerialists Luka Owen and Daniel Connor performed with a Fork Lift Truck, in a nod to Daimler’s engineering past, as the key to the building was handed from Robert Wigley from The Wigley Group to Roger Medwell, Chair of our Board.

The purpose-built Daimler Powerhouse Creation Centre will focus primarily on outdoor arts and provide much needed and dedicated fully accessible spaces for the production of outdoor and site-specific work becoming part of a network of growing national and international creation centres.

The £2.5million creative hub has been funded through £1.9 million from the Cultural Capital Investment Fund which is resourced from Coventry City Council and the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership’s Growth Deal.
The Wigley Group, which owns Sandy Lane Business Park and have undertaken the development work, have contributed an additional £350,000 as well as agreeing a highly-discounted 20-year lease on Daimler Powerhouse, as well as a neighbouring building, as part of the redevelopment. Additional funding has been raised from The Foyle Foundation, Medwell-Hyde, The Garfield Weston Foundation and The May 29th 1961 Charitable Trust.

With building works complete, the interior of the creation centre will be completed over the coming months. £150,000 from Arts Council England will ensure state of the art infrastructure is embedded within the building including a sound recording studio and edit suite, as well as a newly installed Sprung Dance Floor and Vertical Dance Wall.

The Daimler Building has long had a reputation as a centre of excellence from the manufacture of the first bicycle, the location of the first car factory in Britain to the creators of the first Fork Lift Truck and as a specialist engine factory for high-performance engines powering four F1 World Champions. Now, Coventry will once again lead the way nationally, and internationally, Daimler Powerhouse will be a creative centre of excellence combining art, environment, engineering and social change.

As well as providing a home for Imagineer’s innovative education and training programmes aimed at young people and people with disabilities, The Daimler Powerhouse will also be our new home and the home of resident companies Highly Sprung Performance Co., Media Mania, Open Theatre Company and Talking Birds.

Daimler Powerhouse will open to the public in August 2021 as part of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021's Programme with a weekend of special events, performances and opportunities to visit the building. ...

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We are saddened to announce the postponement of our St Patricks day celebration “Culture on the Move’ event, due to take place this Saturday 14th March. Thank you to everyone involved for their commitment to the project and we hope the event can be rescheduled for the summer. pic.twitter.com/4NWl…

About 2 weeks ago from Imagineer Productions's Twitter via Twitter for Android

We had a great session today at @OfficialWiseman with @jo_gane - working with Elephant Trap camera, as well as contact printing, and we came up with a name for our exhibition #cultureonthemove pic.twitter.com/YsKP…

About 3 weeks ago from Imagineer Productions's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Brilliant rehearsal on Tuesday with @HerewardCollege @grapevinecandw and Rebel Manifesto Aerial! Great to have DJs there too - come and see what we've been up to on March 14th, at @CoventrySkydome and @JJs_Coventry #cultureonthemove pic.twitter.com/qrWs…

About 3 weeks ago from Imagineer Productions's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Check out our programme for our #cultureonthemove event! We have been working with some brilliant artists and organisations - come along on 14th March to SkyDome event space and JJ's! pic.twitter.com/d3x7…

About 3 weeks ago from Imagineer Productions's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Fantastic carousel session this morning with @OfficialWiseman students led by @jo_gane - Elephant Trap Camera, studio time and printing pinhole photography! #cultureonthemove #photography pic.twitter.com/mFpo…

About a month ago from Imagineer Productions's Twitter via Twitter Web App