The Nerve Centre Arts, Higher Education & Conference Centre
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a space apart The Nerve Centre has been a provider of niche and innovative conference space since its opening more than 10 years ago. Within our building there are a variety of spaces available which deliver specialist space for a wide variety of clients from arts organisations to corporate clients and from digital creatives to business users. As a community based organisation at the heart of the city we also cater for family groups, charities and community associations. Whatever the event, from fairs to special interest meetings, from parties to lectures and from corporate launches to charity fundraisers, the Nerve Centre has the flexibility to meet all your requirements. Perhaps our most familiar space is our Main Venue, which is known to many music fans as the premiere live music venue in the North West. However, the Main Venue also comes alive as a conference facility and meeting facility for corporate clients, public agencies and community organisations.
The Nerve Centre also has two intimate and high specification screening rooms, perfect for special screenings, lectures, performances and birthday parties, of course. As well as our Main Venue and cinemas, the Nerve Centre also contains a number of versatile spaces including a series of small to medium meeting rooms and boardroom type facilities. The Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland's leading combined arts and multimedia centre and so all spaces have an array of audio visual aids available to the client and a team of technical staff on hand to facilitate all your requirements. Flexibility and friendliness are the watchword for the Nerve Centre and it's staff. Our spaces can be used in a variety of combinations tailored for your specific requirements, which sets the Nerve Centre as a space apart. For further information on conference and venue facilities contact us at: info@nerve-centre.org.uk
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Conference Spaces • Main Venue • Foyer Exhibition and Reception area • Screening Room 1 • Digital Archive Room and Screening Room 2 • Screening Room 3 • Board Room 1 • Board Room 2 • Board Room 3 • Café Nervosa In addition • All spaces are fully air-conditioned • Full catering facilities are available • HD displays In Board Rooms • Projectors • Flip Charts • Flexible Seating • P.A. systems available • Lecterns and spotlights • Variable staging available. • Conference WI FI system • ISDN points • Phone points • Induction Loop Access in Screening Room 1 • Laptop connections throughout For further information on conference and venue facilities contact us at: info@nerve-centre.org.uk
the Nerve Centre Conference Facilities
main venue Whatever the event, from fairs to special interest meetings, from parties to lectures and from corporate launches to charity fundraisers, the Nerve Centre has the flexibility to meet all your conference requirements. Perhaps our most familiar space is our Main Venue, which is known to many music fans as the premiere live music venue in the North West. However, the Main Venue also comes alive as a conference facility and meeting facility for corporate clients, public agencies and community organisations. The Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland's leading combined arts and multimedia centre and so all spaces have an array of audio visual aids available to the client and a team of technical staff on hand to facilitate all your requirements.
system and the premier installed analogue sound system in Northern Ireland. In addition to the Main Venue the Nerve Centre can support your conference by providing access to our Foyer Exhibition and Reception area and the catering room which represents all that is left of the original shirt factory that once occupied the site; with its vaulted ceilings and massive wooden crossbeams, it makes an excellent space for more grown up birthday parties and events.
Café Nervosa Specifications This 620 standing capacity Venue has catered for a variety of conferences and events from intimate shows in the round, to fashion events, skateboarding displays, theatre and comedy performances, public debates and major live music events. The Main Venue has enormous flexibility and can seat 50 to 220 people. It has two back projectors and screens, a full controllable lighting
Catering is an essential part of any conference experience and the Nerve Centre is able to provide full catering facilities through our on site café and restaurant, Café Nervosa. A range of buffet and à la carte menus are available on request. For further information on conference and venue facilities contact us at: info@nerve-centre.org.uk
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spaces for hire Conference & Meeting Rooms Our range of spaces include: • Main Venue • Foyer Exhibition and Reception area • Screening Room 1 • Digital Archive Room and Screening Room 2 • Screening Room 3 • Board Room 1 • Board Room 2 • Board Room 3 • Café Nervosa
Foyer Exhibition & Reception area leading to Screening Room 1 Screening Room 1 is conveniently placed on the Nerve Centre's ground floor, beside our foyer Exhibition Space and Reception area, it has proved a very popular space for private functions and publicity events. This recently refurbished, 60 seat state of the art digital cinema, is capable of high definition and 3D screening. It has been used for small conferences and events, children's parties, intimate acoustic shows, theatrical performances as well as lecture and seminar sessions.
Digital Archive Room & Screening Room 2 Surrounded by murals depicting the photographic history of Derry and Northern Ireland, this large airy space is perfect for less formal launches and gatherings of up to 60 people. It provides a series of screens, comfortable informal seating and as it is adjacent to Screening Room 2 ,they can be hired together to offer the combination of casual and formal. Screening Room 2 is a comfortable 40 seat cinema perfectly suited to small or extended family group screenings, talks or lectures. It has a similar technical specification to screening room 1 and is located next to the Digital Archive Room in Magazine Studios.
Boardrooms Our main boardroom, originally developed as the 'star's' dressing room, the Boardroom has recently undergone a major refurbishment. Its roundtable design, high definition screening facilities and views over the city walls, provide a perfect secure space for 10-15 person meetings. In addition, we have two further meeting rooms contained within our sister building, Magazine Studios. Set high above the town on the second floor, these state of the art boardrooms have proved popular with both arts development groups and corporate clients. Seating 12, both rooms have full disabled access and onsite catering is available.
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Screening Room 3 This black box space with curtained walls will cater for 25 seated and has HD screening facilities.
Café Nervosa Catering is an essential part of any conference experience and the Nerve Centre is able to provide full catering facilities through our on site café and restaurant, Café Nervosa. A range of buffet and a la carte menus are available on request. Café Nervosa is also available for hire for smaller conferences, events and private parties. For further information on conference and venue facilities contact us at: info@nerve-centre.org.uk Space Capacity
Standing
Seated
Mixed Use
Main Venue
620
220
400
Foyer Exhibition & Reception area
70
Screening Room 1
60
Digital Archive Room
70
Screening Room 2
40
Screening Room 3
25
Board Room 1
12
Board Room 2
10
Board Room 3
4
Café Nervosa
90
70
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higher education The Nerve Centre is an award winning multi media arts centre that is engaged in providing access to facilities, training, education, exhibition and production for many young and unemployed people in Derry and Northern Ireland. The Nerve Centre was established in 1990 as a focal point for youth culture in Derry, Northern Ireland's second city. By bringing popular music, film, video, animation and interactive multimedia together under one roof, the Nerve Centre promotes creative collaboration and fusion between artists and provides a cultural outlet for many young people who feel excluded from what is traditionally regarded as the "arts sector".
Skills Development & Innovation The Nerve Centre has provided full time training opportunities to over 900 individuals as part of its training programmes at the centre over the past 20 years. Price Waterhouse evaluated our training and confirmed a 70% success rate with 70% of completers moving to employment or further education as a direct result of the training. Furthermore, the Nerve Centre has combined production through films such as the Oscar nominated ‘Dance Lexie Dance’ and others to provide valuable work experience for the trainees. There are a number of individual success stories with at least trainees setting up their own businesses over the years. Furthermore, over 50% of the current staff are former trainees of the Nerve Centre having come through full time courses at the centre.
Current Courses The Nerve Centre’s annual full-time vocational courses continue to attract students from all over Ireland and beyond. The courses are tutored by industry professionals who bring their practical experience of studio engineering, live performance, recording, songwriting, festival and television production into the classroom through lessons, tutorials and seminars. All of our full-time courses are NVQ - Level 3 OCN Awards for Progression, have a duration of one year and are run in partnership with South West College. As a result of completing our courses, successful students have the opportunity to advance to third level education and into a career in the creative industries.
Music Performance & Technology
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A comprehensive, hands on approach is at the heart of this music rich course, with units in song-writing, digital music composition, mixing and live sound. You will have opportunities to work as a member of the Nerve Centre production crew and by the conclusion of the course shall be self-sufficient in many areas of music production, arrangement and sequencing thereby enabling you to take control of your creative output.
Diploma In Video Techniques This course gives the student an overall understanding of the production process and techniques, not only for video work, but also for many other areas of the media industry. The course is of particular interest to those looking for a low level entry into the industry, but will be equally useful for potential media degree students and community workers wanting to get professional results. Opportunities exist for learners to progress onto relevant Higher Education courses.
Music Production This course is designed to provide students with a wide array of skills associated with the theory and process of making and recording music in the modern digital studio. Students will be introduced to the key concepts of programming, recording, mixing and mastering music and audio in various genres through a series of detailed exercises and practical projects. There is a strong emphasis on the creative adaptation of standard techniques and the development of personal practice.
Creative Technology All of the units in this course are primarily geared towards giving students a good working knowledge of industry standard software/ hardware, procedures and their application. This will include instruction in - but not restricted to - Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut, Logic Studio and Avid Pro Tools. The modules have been designed to provide a clear pathway for creative media practitioners to 3rd level education and as such it has direct links to the South West College and its ground breaking Foundation Degree in Creative Technologies. For further information on courses contact us at: info@nerve-centre.org.uk
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live performances & arts events The Nerve Centre promotes over 80 performances annually as well as the internationally recognised Foyle Film Festival which is now in its 24th year. Every year there is a great mix of festivals, events and workshops. Our annual programme of events includes our *Showcase Music conference, Celtronic and Americana Festivals. Our live music venue regularly hosts a variety of international acts, such as Scouting for Girls, Sinéad O’Connor, Snow Patrol, Michael McIntyre, and David Gray. The Nerve Centre’s artistic output has also gained it an international reputation with an Oscar nomination for the short film ‘Dance, Lexie, Dance’ in 1998, a BAFTA nomination for the animated film, ‘The Crumble Giant’ in 2008 and its ongoing collaboration with local visual artist Willie Doherty, garnering a nomination for the 2003 Turner Prize. The centre is a major regional hub for the creative industries in Northern Ireland producing films, videos, music recordings, digital media content and major regional websites, such as www.culturenorthern ireland.com.
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live performances & arts events
Throughout the year we also run a series of taster workshops in music and digital music in the run up to the recruitment of our full time courses in September. We also have a programme of drums, bass and guitar lessons which cater for all levels and styles with music reading and grades also available. Our Rehearsal rooms are now available 24/7 with opening hours and Twilight Sessions for anytime booking to suit the busy lifestyle of performing musicians. Throughout the year we also have our annual Foyle Film Festival and Cinema programme which includes the Kids Club screenings at Christmas and summer times. The Nerve Centre has also had a central role in supporting a host of other organisations within the city and in particular advancing the festival programme within the city. We have partnered with Interact: Youth Arts Festival and the Maiden City Festival to bring you the best in local talent performing at the Nerve Centre and the annual Interact Rock School. We're delighted that in the run up to City of Culture 2013, the Nerve Centre remains a hub for arts and musical activity in the city.
For further information on our Arts, Higher Education and Conference facilities, contact:
The Nerve Centre 7/8 Magazine Street Derry, BT48 6HJ Northern Ireland Phone: +44 (02871) 260562 Fax: +44 (02871) 371738 E: info@nerve-centre.org.uk