Orchestra Victoria facing eviction

Orchestra Victoria will lose its home in Albert Park in December and new accommodation is yet to be found.

24 May 2016

Richard Watts

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Orchestra Victoria: photo by Daniel Boud

The Orchestra currently rehearses in the former Army Band Barracks in Albert Park, a heritage-listed site which is earmarked for the new South Melbourne Park Primary School.

It is one of two new schools planned for the area, whose existing schools are struggling to deal with overcrowding, according to a report by the ABC earlier this year.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts