The Tabernacle, Machynlleth
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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 po ...
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. It is located in a former
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chapel, which was converted in the mid-1980s and opened as a performing arts space in 1986. Since then the
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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 (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...
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 ...
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s and conferences. It also has translation booths, a
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, 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
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classes are held. The
Machynlleth Festival The Machynlleth Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in the auditorium of The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, Wales in late August. During the week eminent performers take part in events ranging from recitals for children to jazz. Ev ...
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".


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Machynlleth Festival The Machynlleth Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in the auditorium of The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, Wales in late August. During the week eminent performers take part in events ranging from recitals for children to jazz. Ev ...
* Hallstatt Lecture *
MOMA, Wales MOMA Machynlleth or Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth (Formerly MOMA Wales()) is an arts centre and gallery adjacent to (''The Tabernacle'') in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. The Tabernacle was converted in the mid-1980s from a John Wesley, Wesley ...


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)


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Official Webpage
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