The Tabernacle is a centre for the performing arts in
Machynlleth
Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a pop ...
,
Powys
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,
Wales
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. It is located in a former
Wesleyan
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chapel, which was converted in the mid-1980s and opened in 1986. Since then the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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has grown up alongside it, with six exhibition spaces.
The Tabernacle' Auditorium seats 350 people and regularly hosts
chamber and
choral
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which s ...
music,
drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
,
lecture
A lecture (from Latin ''lēctūra'' “reading” ) is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical infor ...
s and conferences. It also has translation booths, a
grand piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
, recording facilities and a cinema screen. There is a bar in the foyer. There are music teaching rooms and an art studio in Ty Llyfnant. The Green Room doubles as a Language Laboratory where
Lifelong learning classes are held.
The
Machynlleth Festival takes place in the Auditorium in late August every year.
Since acquiring accreditation from the Museums, Archives and Libraries Division of the Welsh Government in 2016, the Trust owning the Tabernacle is now known as "MOMA Machynlleth".
See also
*
Machynlleth Festival
*
Hallstatt Lecture
*
MOMA, Wales
Further reading
* Michael Fraser: ''Graham Arnold: A Retrospective/ Ol Syllu'' (Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1992)
*''Icons in Oil: Portraits from the Lambert Collection'' (Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1993)
* Eric Rowan & Carolyn Stewart: ''An Elusive Tradition: Art and Society in Wales, 1870–1950'' (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2002)
* D. Huw Owen: ''Capeli Cymru'' (Y Lolfa, Talybont, 2005)
External links
Official Webpage
Theatres in Wales
Chapels in Powys
Methodist churches in Wales
Former Methodist churches in the United Kingdom
Event venues established in 1986
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