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Digbeth Institute is a civic building in Digbeth, Birmingham, England also known as Digbeth Civic Hall. It is now operated as The Institute, a 2,900 capacity music venue. It has three main rooms: the 2,000-capacity main auditorium called "The Institute" which has a seated upper balcony, the downstairs room which holds up to 600 people called "The Library" and the 300-capacity upstairs room 'The Temple'. ==History== Designed by Arthur Harrison, it was officially opened January 16, 1908 by the wife of the Pastor of Carrs Lane Church, John Henry Jowett, as an institutional church attached to Carr's Lane Congregational Church. In the week that followed, it hosted a variety of acts. The area which surrounded it was predominantly slums and industrial.〔 In 1954, the building was put up for sale by the trustees as they felt the building was not needed for its originally intended use. It was bought by Birmingham City Council in 1955 for £65,000 and was used as a civic hall. People known to have made speeches at the Digbeth Institute include Neville Chamberlain, Henry Usborne, Florence L. Barclay and Herbert Hensley Henson. In the late 1950s and early 1960s it housed the Midland Jazz club. In 1987, the building was used as a film studio by the Birmingham Film and Video Workshop for the Channel 4 film 'Out Of Order'. The venue also played a part as one of the main locations in the feature film 'Lycanthropy', filmed in 2005–2006. In the 1980s the venue was refurbished, and in 1998 The Sanctuary opened,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2895938-sanctuary_the_birmingham-i )〕 which was to be the original home of the Cambridge/Northampton born club night Godskitchen. It also played host to club nights such as Atomic Jam, Uproar, Slinky, Sundissential, Athletico, Ramshackle, Insurrection, Inukshuk and Panic. In 2005, Channelfly Company bought the downstairs "cellar" room, and turned it into the Birmingham Barfly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/barfly-to-open-sixth-venue/028545 )〕 This 400 capacity venue was host to touring bands and local bands. The MAMA Group acquired Channelfly as a subsidiary in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.icfilter.com/Music/stephenbudd )〕 This meant the Birmingham Barfly was now owned by MAMA Group. In 2008 the MAMA Group took over the lease of the whole building (including both the Barfly and The Sanctuary). Work was started on renovating the building, especially the historic features. The work was due to be finished in September 2009. In January 2009 HMV bought a 9.9% stake in The MAMA Group (by taking 50% of the Mean Fiddler). In January 2010 HMV bought the remaining percentage of the MAMA group for £46million. After a £4 million refurbishment, the HMV Institute opened on 18 September 2010.〔("Birmingham's newest music venue HMV Institute ready to open its doors" ) ''Birmingham Post'': Accessed October 10th, 2010〕〔("Birmingham venue set to reopen its doors" ) NME: Accessed October 10th, 2010〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/barfly-takes-over-the-sanctuary-3962151 )〕 In December 2012, HMV sold its assets to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) for under £8million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Digbeth Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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