AFTER nearly 30 years in Scarborough Art Gallery's dark basement, Crescent Arts is moving above ground level this week.
The arts organisation is emerging from the building's bowels, blinking in the sunlight, to transfer its exhibition space into the new Woodend Creative Workspace just around the corner.
On Saturday, to celebrate the move, two installations can be v
iewed from 2-5pm and there will be a concert at 7pm.
The New Facades installation looks at the artistic legacy of poet and critic Edith Sitwell and her writer brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. All spent a large part of their childhood at Woodend when it was a private house.
"We would like to acknowledge their contribution to the arts and cultural landscape of Britain in the early 20th century", says Crescent Arts director Stuart Cameron.
"The Sitwells, especially Edith, aroused controversy with their writings and were prominent figures in the avant-garde movements of their day," Stuart says. "They are inextricably linked to Cecil Beaton through many photographic portraits of the siblings."
New Facades will run at Creative Artspace, the new gallery, until October 14.
It is a series of audio-visual works resulting from a collaboration between Crescent Artspace, students and tutors at the Yorkshire Coast College's costume-design department and the sound department at Hull University's Scarborough campus.
The second installation, Out of Time, Out of Place, is by Catherine Graham.
The concert, Facade, is at the library. The Orchestra of St Paul's will combine the poetry of Edith Sitwell and the music of composer William Walton. It will feature recitals by musician Pippa Longworth and food writer William Sitwell, Edith's great nephew, with images projected by Brighton artist Gerald Mynott.
Crescent Arts is hanging on to it's old base, which will continue to be used as artists' studios.
Crescent Artspace is open from Tuesday to Saturday between 11am and 5pm. Admission is free.
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