The Tabernacle, Machynlleth

The Tabernacle is a centre for the performing arts in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. It is located in a former Wesleyan chapel, which was converted in the mid-1980s and opened as a performing arts space in 1986. Since then the Museum of Modern Art has grown up alongside it, with six exhibition spaces.[1]

The Tabernacle

The Tabernacle' Auditorium seats 350 people and regularly hosts chamber and choral music, drama, lectures and conferences. It also has translation booths, a grand piano, 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.[2]

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".

References

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  1. ^ "Our history". MOMA Machynlleth. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival". MOMA Machynlleth. 23 August 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.

See also

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Further reading

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  • Michael Fraser: Graham Arnold: A Retrospective/ Ol Syllu (Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1992) ISBN 0-9519971-0-6
  • Icons in Oil: Portraits from the Lambert Collection (Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1993) ISBN 0-9519971-1-4
  • Eric Rowan & Carolyn Stewart: An Elusive Tradition: Art and Society in Wales, 1870–1950 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2002) ISBN 0-7083-1769-3
  • D. Huw Owen: Capeli Cymru (Y Lolfa, Talybont, 2005) ISBN 0-86243-793-8
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