The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
| Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts | |
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LIPA's main entrance, on Mount Street
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Liverpool, Merseyside |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 53°23′58.4″N 2°58′20.3″W / 53.399556°N 2.972306°WCoordinates: 53°23′58.4″N 2°58′20.3″W / 53.399556°N 2.972306°W |
| Construction started | 1990 |
| Completed | 7 June 1996 |
| Cost | £20m |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | David Watkins - Brock Carmichael Architects |
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is one of the United Kingdom's leading institutions for performing arts. The university is situated in the English city of Liverpool. LIPA offers training in Acting, Applied Theatre & Community Drama, Dance, Music, Management of Music, Entertainment, Theatre & Events, Sound Technology, Theatre and Performance Technology, and Theatre and Performance Design.
It offers ten full-time B.A. Honours degrees, as well as two Foundation Certificate programmes of study.
The Education Guardian has previously ranked the university #1 in the UK for several of its degree courses. LIPA is regularly amongst the top 10 in rankings for specialist institutions also.
In September 2003, LIPA launched LIPA 4-19; a part-time performing arts academy for 4 to 19 year olds. Since then, a satellite school and associate academies have also been launched. LIPA started its own primary free school in 2014 and its own sixth form free college in September 2016.
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts was started by Sir Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty RNOM OBE.
It was a meeting of two ideas: McCartney had known since 1985 that the building which had housed his old school — the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys — was becoming increasingly derelict after the school's closure, and wished to find a productive use for it; Mark Featherstone-Witty had set up the Brit School in London and wanted to try his ideas on a bigger scale.
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