Diorama Arts Cooperative

Large, old brick building, with two people for scale
The Diorama on Peto Place
Brick parking area of the same building
Rear of 18 Park Square East (formerly the Diorama) in Peto Street, London

Diorama Arts Cooperative (DAC) was a mixture of actors, artists, dancers, designers, journalists, musicians and therapists who used the Diorama theatre in Regent's Park between 1976 and 1992.[1] In September 1981, DAC was incorporated as the charity Diorama Arts Centre.[2]

According to the Theatres Trust, "In the 1970s, the arts collective created a small theatre within a lively arts centre, widely known as a place for arts, craft, theatre, concerts and more."[3] The book The Diorama Arts Project said, "Diorama arts is a community arts group particularly concerned with the handicapped and under-privileged, which plans to convert the Regents Park Diorama building for use as its headquarters."[4]

At Christmas 1992, Diorama Arts Centre left the building; its landlords, the Crown Estate Commissioners and Camden Council relocated the organisation to a new development nearby in Osnaburgh Street.[1][3] The Old Diorama Arts Centre, now at the Regent's Place campus, continues the charity.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Diorama Arts Centre Ltd". Hackney Empire collection. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Diorama Arts Centre Ltd. Governing Document". Crown Copyright. 15 September 1981. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Diorama Arts Centre". Theatres Trust. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  4. ^ The Diorama arts project. Open Library. 1983. OL 20853781M. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Old Diorama Arts Centre". Old Diorama Arts Centre. Retrieved 26 April 2022.