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The Crescent Arts Centre (or simply The Crescent) is an arts centre based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, founded in 1980. The centre hosts a wide range of arts and entertainment events, as well as classes in dance, music, verbal and visual arts, and community outreach programmes. Its facilities include a dance studio named after its late patron, the choreographer and Holocaust survivor Helen Lewis.[1] The centre is home to the annual June Belfast Book Festival.[2]
The Crescent is housed in the former Victoria College on University Road in the Queens Conservation Area. The current patron of the centre is Paul Muldoon.[2]
- ^ "Helen Lewis Dance Studio". Room hire. Crescent Arts Centre. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Crescent Arts Centre". Crescent Arts Centre website. Retrieved 29 November 2009.