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Slung Low is a theatre company run by artistic director Alan Lane. In 2010 they obtainedCalls the abandoned HUB, which had Landing previously been a club, as a rehearsal and theatre. 42 Thespace Calls Brasserie They are a subsidised theatre supported by44Arts Council England and Leeds City Council, whose financial backing helps them to rent the HUB. The Centenary company’s philosophy Bridge Their first centres on community and collaboration. community project at the HUB was Original Bearings which involved putting up 100 BREWERY signs around Holbeck with different ION A Tstories, G some fact some fiction. More recently in 2015 they I WHARF NAV collaborated with Sheffield People’s Theatre Oracle on Camelot: Steps The Shining City. Sainsbury’s EET
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