Milton Keynes Gallery is looking for young people aged between 14 and 19 to produce and submit a short film of up to 3 minutes in length for their Young Filmmaker of the Year Competition. Entrants are being asked to consider how they might respond creatively to the “City Club” theme. City Club was the…
Exciting plans to expand Milton Keynes Gallery were unanimously approved at a meeting of Milton Keynes Council’s planning committee last night. The new three-story extension will house new gallery and events spaces, education facilities and a cafe overlooking Midsummer Boulevard. Chief among the new additions is a 300-capacity auditorium, capable of hosting dramatic performances, music…
A project which aims to refresh the area around Milton Keynes Gallery and the Theatre has won a £750,000 grant from Arts Council England. The City Club project will create a series of three welcoming public spaces, a piazza, a playground and a garden, drawing influence from the original visions for the city. The project…
An exciting 1970s plan for a leisure complex in CMK is to be revisited at a talk at the MK Gallery on Thursday 17 September. Artists Gareth Jones and Nils Norman are proposing to take the ideals represented by the unbuilt City Club scheme as a starting point to consider future use of the public…
Milton Keynes Gallery is planning a programme of major expansion over the next few years, which is planned to transform it into a community arts hub, double its exhibition space and attract visitors from across the country. The £10 million scheme includes three new cinemas for screening independent films, education and community facilities, a bar,…
With its 50th anniversary looming, and lots of new development heading for CMK, now is a good time to remember its origins and look ahead.