Areas: City Centre
With its elegant and assured new wing, The Bluecoat has even more gallery space than ever, to show its rich and diverse calendar of arts.
The Bluecoat is multi-discplinary, so there’s art, installation, photography and mixed media) exhibitions, talks, film shows and – in the intimate first floor performance space – gigs, dance events and ‘studio’ theatre productions.
There’s a cluster of independent shops in the courtyard, a good restaurant and, in the Bluecoat Display Centre, the city’s best craft retail experience – almost a gallery in itself – showcasing local and regional artists’ jewellers’ and ceramicists’ work.
The building (at least most of it) is the city’s oldest – dating to 1708.
