But there is, nonetheless, a real appetite for opera: a recent study by the Opera and Music Theatre Forum suggests that opera audiences are growing and that small-scale venues are keen to stage more productions.
While always making his work available for the small-scale venues which remain part of the vitality of the area's arts economy, he was also an enthusiastic (but not uncritical) supporter of the innovative programming of conceptual art and new painting, from the "local" to the "international", at St Ives, Newlyn and elsewhere.
Transitioning from small-scale venues to selling out arenas, G-Eazy has established a global audience of loyal fans that have helped propel him to become one of the top-selling independent artists of the modern era.
Zapp returned to performing only in live concert, touring across the U.S. at various small scale venues.
After re-vamping JB's interior, which included running underground piping to put dozens of local micro-brews and wines on tap, and gentrifying the menu guided by an executive chef (that would be Kimport), Kimport and Reed bought the two buildings behind them in 2006, busted through the walls, and turned Johnny Brenda's 2nd floor into arguably America's hottest small-scale indie rock venue.
But those were only parts of an elaborate promotional campaign that also included recent appearances on "Saturday Night Live," "The Colbert Report" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" as well as relatively small-scale gigs at venues such as the Hollywood Palladium (where the band played on Halloween) and a warehouse in Brooklyn, N.Y.
With 5,000 square feet, plus a roomy mezzanine level that's flooded with natural light, Austere is an ideal venue for small-scale objects, or as recent installations have proved, partnerships with prominent Swedish businesses such as Volvo and Absolut Vodka, for the Absolut Art program.
YCCI's pilot program is a funding venue for conducting small-scale research projects to generate data that potentially could lead to further research and funding opportunities.
For example, Northern Stage set up a venue in Edinburgh, with very small-scale work from across the North of England.
Even a small-scale breach of a security cordon around the venue on Monday evening ended peacefully, when several dozen anti-capitalist protesters climbed over a line of razor wire more than a mile from the summit venue and crossed a field, before being turned back by shouted warnings from around 50 riot police and dispersing without incident.
The aim -- to host events that create and nurture an artistic community at the venue – is a promising sign that a small-scale initiative to populate a declining market is now filtering out further afield.
