EXCITING NEWS FOR HAMPSTEAD FINE ARTS COLLEGE
We are delighted to announce our expansion into additional premises on Parkhill Road, Belsize Park, just a few minutes’ walk from Centre Studios. The new building, previously the Village School for Girls, will undergo a refurbishment prior to Fine Arts opening there in September, ready for the new academic year.
This expansion will provide even greater opportunities for our students. We have long wished to provide more performing arts space to complement our arts and humanities subjects, and the new building will be a wonderful addition. It will provide further teaching spaces for drama, dance, music, music tech, fine art and lecture rooms. It also has a 120-seat auditorium and flexible outdoor space for a range of physical and social activities.
The new building will be known as the Parkhill Campus in recognition of the significant historic links to the arts in this part of Belsize Park. Parkhill Road was at the centre of the British Modernist Movement in the 1930s. Sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, the founder of the Bauhaus School Walter Gropius, and artists Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson all lived in the area close to the famous modernist Isokon building on Lawn Road.
Chair of Governors of Hampstead Fine Arts, and Founder and Chairman of Dukes Education, Aatif Hassan, said We are pleased to be able to build on the legacy of the arts and education that this area is renowned for. Hampstead Fine Arts College is an extraordinary place for young people. It has a welcoming and collaborative ethos that provides a highly creative environment for students. This new facility will enable that creativity to extend further into the performing arts and even more students will be able to enjoy the arts and humanities specialist education the college provides.
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