Sentence examples for makeshift venues from inspiring English sources

For the five years while its home was being renovated, the orchestra had played in more than 50 makeshift venues, he said.

The rest happen during the day in bars or makeshift venues: yards, car parks, garages, empty lots, bicycle stores and barber shops.

Denied permission to perform live, others organise secret concerts in makeshift venues such as private homes or underground car parks, risking punishment by lashing if caught.

Most of the real 'rave' experiences came after - at the after-hours parties in the makeshift venues and shebeens, like the Kitchen in Hulme.

Here's the second instalment from Jane's festival diary, in which she whizzes around Adelaide, sitting on uncomfortable seats in makeshift venues, in an effort to help you negotiate the programme.

For me and many others, Sweetness and Light brings back memories of a time when attending a rave was like stepping into the unknown – 0055 numbers, makeshift venues, raising a middle finger to authority and usually getting away with it.

And when the music's over, and the crowd have left, the floor of the makeshift venue is littered with empty beer bottles, cigarette ends, clothes and the roaches of smoked-down joints.

Five thousand people were summonsed for possible jury duty: one of the biggest jury pools in provincial history, and larger than the pool for either Paul Bernardo or Robert Pickton, necessitating the makeshift venue.

In the auditorium, the coat check was transformed into a makeshift childcare venue and the concessions stands hosted volunteers putting together peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

In the 1970s, Rivers' makeshift loft venue, Studio Rivbea (where he lived with his late wife, Beatrice), became the hub of the avant-garde jazz scene in Lower Manhattan.

He exhibited in makeshift galleries and venues in vacant storefronts in Hollywood that used art as a front to sell liquor in the back.