SAMOA ARTS & CULTURE CENTRE TO COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION IN OCTOBER
By: Asenati Taugasolo Semu
Samoa’s first ever international and multi-purpose Arts & Culture Centre is rescheduled to be completed in October this year.
The extension of the completion date from June this year is due to the COVIT 19 pandemic.
The centre endorsed by Cabinet on September 2016, aims to strengthen culture development through creating a national platform for artists and cultural experts to enhance and safeguard culture and the arts into the future.
This is one of Government’s projects visited by the Cabinet Development Committee (CDC) last Friday.
The committee is chaired by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and include Cabinet Ministers, Chief Executive Officers and Assistance CEOs.
The project is co-funded by the Huizhou Municipality of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of Samoa.
The building include an administration, culture, heritage, arts, performing arts, arts shop, exhibition, display and marketing area, library, bathrooms & storage facilities.
There will be a recording & audio-visual studio, three conference facilities, a theatre that can house 100 performers and 500 seats, a VIP lounge, cultural exhibition/performance area, artists’ workshop & display & marketing spaces, four training rooms, and a library (including facilities for persons with disabilities).
The leading implementing agency is the Ministry of Education Sports and Culture (MESC).
