{"id":28170,"date":"2023-02-23T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/23\/oldham-coliseum-closure-an-attack-on-arts-maxine-peake\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:38:18","slug":"oldham-coliseum-closure-an-attack-on-arts-maxine-peake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=28170","title":{"rendered":"Oldham Coliseum closure an attack on arts &#8211; Maxine Peake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Actress Maxine Peake has described plans to close an historic theatre as &#8220;an attack in some ways on our art&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Oldham Coliseum is set to close next month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-63512050\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">losing its entire Arts Council England funding.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The star, who was among campaigners who attended a public meeting in protest at the plans, said venues like the Coliseum needed to stay open because they were &#8220;a sanctuary for a lot of people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Oldham Council previously said the theatre was not fit for purpose and unveiled plans for a new \u00a324m venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Why not follow BBC North West on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.facebook.com\/BBCNW\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNWT\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> and <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcnorthwest\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">? You can also send story ideas to <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/mailto:northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-64748402?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Actress Maxine Peake has described plans to close an historic theatre as &#8220;an attack in some ways on our art&#8221;. Oldham Coliseum is set to close next month after &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}