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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2016-11-09, Page 21Blyth Public School to be torn down; centre for arts and innovation centre to be built in place Justine Alkema Postmedia Network The old Blyth Public School building will soon be no more. In early October, the Blyth 14/19 Board of Direc- tors voted to demolish it. However in its place will be a huge asset for the area -a centre for arts and innovation. The board looked into turn- ing the school into the new centre without tearing it down, but after doing their research, it came back that it would be extremely difficult to modify the space for their new pur- pose. It ended up being more economical to tear it down and start from scratch. The new centre will be called the Grant and Mildred Sparling Centre, a name given by Grant and Mildred's sons and donors of the project, David and Steven Sparling. The centre will include four flagship programs - fashion arts and creative tex- tile, digital media, theatre arts and the "rural voice': Their programs will be on the cutting edge of innova- tion. For example, their fash- ion arts program will include making clothes from local materials including fibre shed, a movement involving taking wool from local ani- mals for fabrics. Digital media will include new media such as gaming, apps and documentaries. The theatre arts program is very interconnected to Blyth's theatre, and the What if one company could solve all your business needs? We can connect all the pieces in more ways than ever before. "rural voice" will include symposiums and confer- ences similar to the recent Rural 2 Rural conference. There are tons of ideas up in the air for the space. They are talking about having dig- ital archives, a full commer- cial kitchen, studios for art- ists and more. The building is expected to cost between 5-7 million dollars. They have around $730,000 already to be put to the centre left from previous grants which they have used to revitalize Blyth Commu- nity Memorial Hall; these funds will be put to the school's demolition and the hiring of an architect for the preparation of plans for the building. "Our whole goal is to cre- ate cultural hub," said Blyth 14/19 Director of Operations Karen Stewart. "The festival is a big part of that because there's already arts here." The centre, which is look- ing to teach hundreds of stu- dents at a time, will not be an accredited institution; rather, it is to build skills. It is a different type of education structure. Teachers may be longer term, or they may bring in art- ists and professionals to teach intensive, shorter courses for a number of weeks. "We are looking for engag- ing skills in creativity," said Stewart. 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