Tramway website gathers worldwide support against closure :
PHIL MILLER, Arts Correspondent
ARTISTS and curators campaigning against the closure of the Tramway venue in Glasgow as a gallery have intensified their efforts by launching a website which has received support from around the world. The Tramway site has been set up to boost the campaign against the proposed move of the headquarters of Scottish Ballet to the council-owned arts venue, which would mean the closure of the Tramway 2 space as a visual arts gallery, a change which has provoked outrage among artists across Scotland.
Support has flooded into the website from Denmark, Holland, Spain, Germany and the US. The site provides information to campaigners, and maintains an archive of letters and press cuttings on the subject. It also contains petition forms, flyers and posters which can be downloaded from the following site www.sostramway.org.uk
Scottish Ballet met campaigning artists last week and Christopher Barron, its chief executive, said that although the company is set on the move to the venue, he is willing to try to find a compromise that will allow for a visual arts element at the site. However, he said any additional gallery space to be added to his plan would have to be paid for by another party.
Scottish Ballet has costed their move to the Tramway at £8m and would use the disputed Tramway 2 site for set building and storage.
Glasgow City Council insists that there is no "done deal", but many artists believe an agreement has already been reached.
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