In addition to the new
1200-seat Sovereign concert venue announced last week, the Grand Center Arts and Entertainment District's options keep expanding.
Below, recently opened in a renovated building is the
High Low literary arts/writers center, which includes a cafe and library.
There are spaces for writers, poets, readers and eaters at the new High Low, a literary arts center and cafe in Grand Center.
“I think it’s going to be a beautiful place,” says Jane Ellen Ibur, the poet laureate for St. Louis. “Everyone is thrilled to be there.”
Although the building on Washington Boulevard is still getting its finishing touches, particularly the cafe space, events are taking off, bar service has commenced and some nonprofit groups have moved into offices.
As for the library, the books will rotate, but it will feature books, magazines, and articles curated by those in the literary community.
Also on the first floor, a 600-square-foot temperature-and-humidity-controlled gallery (that can open up to 2,600 square feet) will host five to six rotating literary-arts-focused exhibits a year.
In the back of the first floor, there are plans for a 2,000-square-foot, 200-capacity performance space dedicated to poetry readings, storytelling, literary series, and book signings.
Most exciting are the writing spaces.
Upstairs, The High Low will feature two work areas. One is a writers’ suite, which will have desks and partitioned spaces available for writers, and will serve as the home for the forthcoming writers-in-residence program
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