Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

The building in 2010.
Former names	Gardner Arts Centre
Location	University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton and Hove, UK
Coordinates	50°51′53″N 0°05′24″W / 50.8646°N 0.0899°W / 50.8646; -0.0899
Type	Arts centre
Genre(s)	Performance, dance, live art, film, music
Capacity	350 (seated) / 480 (standing)
Opened	1969
Website
attenboroughcentre.com

The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), previously the Gardner Arts Centre, is an arts centre, part of the University of Sussex at Falmer, Brighton and Hove, UK. Its public programme includes performance, dance, live art, film, music, discussion and debate. The building is mid-century modern Grade II* listed, designed by Basil Spence. The venue's name is in commemoration of the University's former Chancellor, the late actor, director and producer, Richard Attenborough. It is also a memorial to Attenborough's daughter Jane, a Sussex alumnus, who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.^[1]