The owners of East London’s Village Underground are planning to reopen the 81-year-old Hackney Arts Centre.
Opened in 1936 on Stoke Newington Road, North London, the art deco building was closed for 30 years, but Village Underground has been working in the last year to turn it into a multipurpose arts space.
The club said: “We unearthed a hidden treasure—a dilapidated art deco theatre, locked behind rusted-shut doors for 30 years. It’s incredible that you can still make discoveries like that in today’s London.
“We want to breathe life back into this historical building and restore it back to its intended use, a major cultural and community space for Hackney and for London.”
Village Underground hopes to turn the club into a space for music, theatre, lectures and restore the building’s façade.
The proposal will be presented to the Hackney council committee in the next few weeks with members of the public able to write in support until April 14.
