Brighton Dome is the south coast’s premier multi-arts venue and conference venue at the cultural heart of Brighton’s Royal Pavilion Estate. It contains the Concert Hall, the Corn Exchange and the Studio Theatre. All three venues are linked to the rest of the Royal Pavilion Estate by an underground tunnel to the Royal Pavilion in Pavilion Gardens and through shared corridors to Brighton Museum.
The Prince Regent (later George IV) built the Concert Hall and Riding School-now the Corn Exchange. The work started in 1803 by a designer, William Porden.
In the First World War, the Dome (as well as the Pavilion) was used to nurse distressed Indian soldiers. Between 1914 and 1916, over 4,000 wounded Indian soldiers were nursed back to health at the Dome hospital.
One of the Dome’s most famous features is its relic pipe organ. The first pipe organ, in the Dome’s Concert Hall, was built in 1870 by the famous London firm of Henry Willis &Sons to a specification of forty-four stops spread over four manuals and pedals. The present instrument, which replaced it in 1935, was built by the firm of Hill, Norman and Beard. This organ has four manuals and one hundred and seventy-eight stops.
What’s on…
Each year, Brighton Dome present and produce over 600 events include music, theatre, dance, comedy, literature, spoken word, visual arts, film, digital and many more. It held the Brighton festival for three weeks every May. This is the biggest and most established annual multi-arts festival in England, returning from 2 to 24 May 2020.
Brighton Dome is committed to bringing all sorts of art to all sorts of people for example, Saturday morning singing to theatrical make-up workshops. In July 2017, they expanded by joining forces with Brighton & Hove Music & Arts (BHMA), who provide music education for young people.
Sources: https://brightondome.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Dome
