Work underway at Birmingham's £25 million "fame academy"
Dec 6 2010 by Kat Keogh, Birmingham Mail
WORK is now well under way for the doors to open on Birmingham’s first £25 million “fame academy”.
The Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA), next to Millennium Point in the city centre, will nurture future stars of the stage and screen when it welcomes its first crop of students start in September 2011. Modelled on the famous BRIT school in London, which launched the careers of pop stars such as Leona Lewis, Kate Nash and Amy Winehouse, the academy will specialise in digital media and the creative and performing arts.
Facilities will include a 300-seat theatre, four dance studios, six rehearsal studios, open air amphitheatre and a TV studio.
Principal Gaynor Cheshire was joined at the site by academy sponsors and Birmingham City Council’s education chief, Coun Les Lawrence, at a ceremony to mark workers reaching the highest point in its structure.
Miss Cheshire said: “I am delighted to see the building take shape now and we are all terribly excited at the prospect of moving into this tremendous space next year.
“BOA will be such an asset to both Birmingham and the wider West Midland regions and for BOA, having the Millennium Point and Thinktank as neighbours is incredible.”
