New cultural space for remote ferry destination

Ferry destination Lerwick has begun building a new "centre of excellence for international creativity".

Work began this week on the new cultural building, named the Mareel, which will house a 330-seat performance auditorium and other creative spaces.

The work is being led by the Shetland Arts Development Agency (Sada) and alongside the auditorium the building will provide rehearsal space for dance, music and drama as well as a digital cinema and a recording studio.

Gwilym Gibbons, director of Sada, said to the BBC: "Shetland as a whole will benefit from a unique, state-of-the-art facility."

Located on the Shetland mainland of the north-east coast of Scotland and the west coast of Norway, Lerwick is served by ferries from Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Faroe and Iceland.

Of more than a hundred Shetland Islands, only 15 are inhabited by humans, leaving much of the land a haven for wildlife and nature.

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