Salisbury Arts Centre is a venue in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is run by Wiltshire Creative, a charity which provides opportunities for members of the community to experience the arts.

Venue: Salisbury Arts Centre
Address: Bedwin Street, Salisbury SP1 3UT
Town: Salisbury, GB

Salisbury Arts Centre is a venue in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is run by Wiltshire Creative, a charity which provides opportunities for members of the community to experience the arts. The centre stages a range of educational and community events, many of them free, and it also participates at events in and around the city, including the Larmer Tree Festival. The centre is housed in the deconsecrated St Edmund's Church on Bedwin Street in central Salisbury. Its main performance space can hold 164 people seated or 400 standing. It also has a studio space called the White Room that seats 60, a media space, a multi-purpose arts and crafts space, a pottery studio, an exhibition space, a café, a bar, and staff offices. In July 1974, the Salisbury Festival of the Arts (now Salisbury International Arts Festival) was held in the church, with a programme of classical music and an exhibition of batik paintings. The festival programme asked visitors to suggest ideas for the use of the building - which had been declared redundant earlier that year - and in 1975 the church's committee agreed to grant use as an arts venue. St Edmunds Arts Trust was established and a group of volunteers coordinated exhibitions from local artists, and workshops for various crafts. The Arts Centre continued to develop in the next decades. Between 1979 and 1981, Sir Henry Moore loaned his Reclining Figure (Time Life 1953) to the Centre, where it was positioned outside the main entrance. By the 1990s the Arts Centre was threatened with closure due to funding cuts but supporters from the community soon launched a "Save Our Arts Centre" campaign. A new funding plan was accepted and the Arts Centre carried on. By 2003 the Arts Centre had raised funds for a refurbishment project. The £4.2m capital re-development improved the heating, added new level flooring, created various spaces within the main building, improved the toilets, installed new technical equipment, and added an extension on the north