PRESS RELEASE FROM: The Leicester Arts Centre (Phoenix)
CONTACT NAME: Julia Boddington
CONTACT NUMBER: 0116 242 2800
Leicester’s Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre Announces £7m Expansion
The Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre has announced plans for a major £7m expansion. The Phoenix, which is a charity, hopes that once complete, their increased capacity will help generate additional revenue to invest in their charitable endeavours.
The expansion will double the centre’s number of cinema screens to a total of four, increase the size of its digital arts gallery, provide its educational services with additional classrooms, and extend its café. The project has been dubbed Phoenix 2020 in reference to the year forecast for its completion.
The Phoenix’s CEO, John Rance, said of the plans:
“We’re really excited about the expansion. It will allow us to screen more of the eclectic mix of vintage, art-house and contemporary blockbuster movies that have made our cinema so popular. We’ll also be enlarging our exhibitions of world-class digital art, all of which are free, and expanding our educational services which run both practical and theory based film and art courses for all ages and abilities.”
A more detailed version of the plans is due for release next month. Meanwhile, the Phoenix team are busy working with their partners, Leicester City Council and De Montfort University, to raise the extra £3m still required to match Arts Council England’s provisional capital grant offer of £4.17m. The centre welcomes public donations.
To celebrate their announcement, the Phoenix are offering all Leicester Mercury readers buy one get one free cinema tickets for a film of their choice until the end of this month. To claim the offer, present the discount code below when purchasing tickets from the Phoenix box office. If booking online, enter the discount code when prompted during the booking process.
Discount code: KLXFP0