THE CUT HALESWORTH
In March 1998 an artists’ co-operative called PanTeknikon began to organise exciting one-off exhibitions and performances in a derelict old maltings on New Cut, Halesworth and the group, soon to be known as New Cut Arts (NCA), met to discuss the possibility of setting up a charitable trust to fundraise for the development of the building and in the year 2000 Charitable status was granted to NCA and fundraising raised over £4,000 to get the project started. In 2002 the 1st Halesworth Arts Festival was successfully inaugurated by NCA. The Cut is fully open for events and classes, employs full-time and part time staff and uses a roster of dedicated volunteers, The Cut now offers Halesworth and the surrounding countryside arts, music, theatre, dance, comedy, cinema, workshops, and exhibitions. The Malt Room Gallery is a large light filled gallery on an upper floor, used as a gallery space for constantly changing exhibitions. The art programme at The Cut is organised by a panel of nine people with an art coordinator Tony Casement. Exhibitions change on a 4–6-week basis with installation/dismantling taking place over Saturday afternoon, Sundays and Mondays with the shows starting on a Tuesday and the preview usually on a Saturday. Exhibitions can be in both the Malt Room Gallery and Café area or separate artists in The Malt Room gallery and Cafe or groups of artists showing in both spaces.
Website: https://thecut.org.uk