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    Richard Attenborough Centre

    Embrace Arts at the Richard Attenborough Centre, in partnership with University of Leicester, is multi-faceted arts centre open to all. Its state-of-the-art building comprises a 120-seat performance area, three studios and an exhibition gallery.

    Embrace Arts promotes a rich programme of performance and learning activities across the calendar, encompassing a wide range of art forms and is one of the few centres in the East Midlands devoted to engaging disabled people in the arts. Embrace Arts nurtures inclusion in the arts for performers and audiences alike, and through its in-house events and outreach initiatives engages more than 45,000 people each year.

    Funding awards

    • 2012-2013: £50,000
    • 2013-2014: £51,150
    • 2014-2015: £52,480

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    Ala Bashir: Recent Work - Memories of Keys

    In 2003 Ala Bashir escaped the horrors and casualties of war in Iraq, where he was a world-famous plastic surgeon and artist under Saddam Hussein's regime, to live in a suburb in Nottingham. 'Memories of Keys' is an exhibition of his work being shown at Embrace Arts, the University of Leicester's arts centre, until Sunday 4 July 2010. In between high-profile visits to the US and the Middle East for exhibitions of his work, he quietly paints in his garage at home. Bashir still produces art that reflects the experiences of his working life in Iraq, expressing feelings and fears of anguish and resistance through his semi-surreal paintings. This exhibition includes new work on his established theme of keys - keys of life, to open doors etc - and also his strikingly-beautiful single-line drawings.

    Embrace Arts at the RA centre

    Interviews and images from the University of Leicester's arts centre

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    PO Box 138
    Lancaster Road

    Leicester
    LE1 7HA

    52.62553, -1.12615

    • 52.62553 -1.12615

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