Alsager Arts Centre has an acclaimed public programme of touring new performance and visual art work presented in two intensive seasons - September to November and January to March. The core of the work is currently programmed into the Axis Theatre, the Dance Studio or the Gallery on the Alsager Campus of MMU Cheshire. The centre is regularly funded by Arts Council England and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Where's Alsager?

Alsager is a small town in Cheshire, 40 minutes south of Manchester, 50 minutes north of Birmingham and 15 minutes from Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe (and its famous train station). It's signposted off Junction 16 of the M6 motorway, as well as having its own train station, one stop up from Crewe. Click here for directions and map.

Programming policy

Alsager Arts Centre aims to promote the best emergent, national and international small-scale touring contemporary theatre, live art, contemporary dance, performance writing, new music and installation.

At present we do not promote stand-up comedy, amateur performance, pop, rock or folk bands, or other work in theatre, dance, poetry, music or visual art which does not appear, in our humble opinion, to be facing up to the challenges confronting such art-forms in the 21st Century. We also do not currently present any performance work during December, or from April to August.

History

Alsager Arts Centre developed as a public facility out of the 'Cultural Policy' of the old Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education, in the early eighties. Over the years it has presented some of the biggest names in contemporary performance of all kinds, from Forced Entertainment to Benjamin Zephaniah, Yolande Snaith to Goat Island, Scanner to Frantic Assembly, Bobby Baker to Odin Teatret.

Arts Centre on the move...

Only slightly delayed, to make certain all things will be as they should, Alsager Arts Centre will be expanding its operations and moving down the road to our fantastic new building on MMU Cheshire's Crewe campus, just a short walk from the station, in time now for the autumn season of 2009. But the new name is still under wraps...