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WELCOME TO THE MELVILLE CENTRE

The Melville Centre is devoted to excellence in teaching, crafts, and theatre.

COVID-19 STATEMENT

In line with Welsh Government directives, our facilities are now open. The theatre can be booked (with lower capacity than usual, please email for information). We are also taking bookings for the classrooms and the café.
For more details on our COVID guidelines, please visit the NHS Covid App or call us!

We are planning to broadcast some online events via this website in the near future so please stay in touch via our Facebook page or this website. Sign up for the newsletter to receive the latest news in your inbox.

WHAT’S ON

Free Creative Workshops for Youth

May 21 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Meet the team behind the Future Is US Project. The Melville Centre for the Arts is opening their doors for a day of creative [...]

Poetry Evening May 31st

May 31 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Welcome to the second Poetry Upstairs at The Melville Centre! Tuesday  31st May 7pm            £5 Entry   Norman Jope (Plymouth)            Melisande Fitzsimmons  (Plymouth)    [...]

Drypoint Etching

June 22 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Please join Rachel Cadman, one of The Big Skill tutors, for a FREE printmaking workshop exploring drypoint engraving. It is a lovely technique and very [...]

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EXCELLENT FACILITIES

The Melville Centre is devoted to excellence in teaching, crafts, and theatre.

  • Welsh Courses – learn Welsh in the evening

  • Crafts – we encourage learning and growth

  • People not profits – education is a right not a privilege

OUR VALUES

Working with the community all the way, it is our aim to construct a sustainable 21st Century Arts Centre, with good amenities, on the Pen y Pound site, extending the range of inclusive activities, events and learning currently available.

In 2016 the listed buildings and much of the site was identified by Monmouthshire County Council as available for community asset transfer (CAT).

In January 2019, after many discussions, MCC agreed a procedure for community asset transfer of the site to Melville Centre for the Arts CIC.

Our business plan 2018 – 2021is convincing; it reflects the potential which can be unlocked by asset transfer of the town’s old grammar school buildings and grounds. Community asset transfer will be achieved when our applications for funding for agreed developments are successful. This may take some time yet, but progress is being made; the journey continues….

On site MCA CIC  hosts  Abergavenny Film Society, Black Mountain Jazz, Rare Seed Theatre Company, Suitcase Theatre Company, many Coleg Gwent Dysgu Cymraeg classes and several community groups, including Stitch Together, Writing for Fun, Uskelele, and Blodeuo, our Arts Council for Wales sponsored, diverse ability drama project AND MANY MORE..

Melville Centre for the Arts CIC manages the main building of the Melville Centre and its classrooms, meeting rooms, coffee-bar, the Melville Theatre (75 seats) and office suites are all available for hire. Book your space here.

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