Lottery Boost for Mareel
Media release: The Scottish Arts Council Capital Lottery Fund has brought a new cinema and music venue a giant step closer to reality by the award of £2.12 million today. The decision represents a vote...
View ArticleHIE confirm £965,000 of funding towards Mareel
HIE media release: “Shetland centre for creative excellence receives HIE funding” Plans for the proposed centre of excellence for international creativity in Shetland have moved closer following a...
View Article£2.8 million from ERDF completes Mareel’s funding package
Media release: A Shetland arts project is using major European investment to create the first multi-media and arts venue on the remote island community, which is aiming to become a centre of excellence...
View ArticleContract signed, Mareel construction can begin
Media release: The Board of Shetland Arts Development Agency has today announced that construction on Shetland’s new Music, Cinema and Education venue will start in a matter of weeks. The announcement...
View ArticleMareel TV goes live ready for construction start
Ready for construction activity to start on Mareel (Shetland’s new music, cinema and education venue) at the end of this month, 60 North TV has a lunched a new webcam feed called Mareel TV available...
View ArticleConvenor Digs Mareel
Media release: On a cold, grey, windy night an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the North Ness, Lerwick to see the first turf dug out on the site of Mareel, Shetland Arts’ long awaited Cinema, Music and...
View ArticleMareel construction begins!
Council Convener breaks ground in big yellow digger and construction begins.
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Mareel site accommodation takes shape
There have been a few comments regards the size and shape of Shetland’s new £12m+ music, cinema and education centre given the current activity on the North Ness site. Just in case you are wondering,...
View ArticleJono Sandilands’ Mareel marketing degree show
Jono Sandilands, a graphic designer from Lerwick, recently showcased his first class acheiving final year project during the Gray’s School of Art Degree Show, part of Robert Gordon University in...
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Big action on the Mareel site
It’s very exciting! Sure… we did have a ‘breaking the ground’ celebration a few weeks back and sure… the Convener (Sandy Cluness) of Shetland Islands Council did jump in a digger and scrape the earth...
View ArticlePiling contractor arrives on Mareel site
The Mareel site was a buzz of activity today as the piling contractor arrived on site to begin work. The contractor is estimated to be in Shetland for 3 weeks in which time the bulk of the foundation...
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Donations to Shetland Arts now online
You can now make donations to Shetland Arts online through The Big Give website. The great thing about online donations is that Shetland Arts can claim Give Aid. This means that for every pound given,...
View Articlemirrie dancers website launch
As of this weekend anyone with an interest in Shetland’s largest public art project will be able to keep up with its progress on a new web site, www.mirriedancers.com Mirrie Dancers, commissioned by...
View ArticleJuly Mareel site progress in images
Our main contractor and their piling subcontractor are making good progress. The major groundworks are now well underway with the piling contractor busy drilling down to bed rock, then filling the...
View ArticleMareel construction update Month 3
Its been a while since the last update on the construction of Mareel so here is the latest news. Piling works were completed on Friday 21st August. Car park – rock excavation has been completed and...
View ArticleMareel is officially off the ground
It has been a good day on the Mareel site. After 6 months of work under the ground it’s now all go above. A significant milestone in any construction project is the point that the first blocks are...
View ArticleMareel on time, on budget and on track
The building is now rapidly taking shape. I walked into one of the downstairs rooms today, through a doorway and looked out to sea through a window. Well almost, the block work is only about 1m high. I...
View ArticleMareel and the Flea immortalised in a dance
Extract taken from South Mainland Notebook 23.10.09 Shetland Times 23/10/09 Compliment has Flea reeling As you would expect, Lerwick Old Time Dance Club tends to stick to old time dances, but a recent...
View ArticleMareel construction progressing well
You can see from our webcam that the block work is now up to the first floor level. What you can’t see is that the first floor floor-slabs are now being poured. This is basically a large amount of...
View ArticleMareel update March 2010
Here are some images as promised. You can see why snow stopped play for a short period in February. Although beautiful it wasn’t the kind of weather to be clambering around scaffold in. Amazing to see...
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