ABP WINS ARTS & BUSINESS AWARD FOR DUET WITH WELSH NATIONAL OPERA
Associated British Ports (ABP), which owns and operates the South Wales Ports of Cardiff, Barry, Newport, Swansea and Port Talbot, has been presented with an Arts, Business & Sustainability Award at the 2007 Arts & Business Cymru Awards, which were held on Monday, 9 July at the Wales Millennium Centre. The award is given in recognition of an established partnership between a business and an arts organisation, in this case that between ABP and Welsh National Opera (WNO), which stimulates community involvement and inclusion in the arts.
As one of the major driving forces in the regeneration of Cardiff Bay, ABP is committed to developing and promoting a flourishing community and business environment in South Wales. It views its long-running sponsorship of, and close relationship with WNO as integral to this strategy. ABP’s employees across South Wales are actively engaged in the Company’s relationship with WNO through a successful employee-involvement programme, which provides them with exclusive insight into WNO’s work. This includes tickets to dress rehearsals, private performances at ABP’s Cardiff offices, opportunities to participate in open workshops, community-outreach activities, as well as backstage tours of the Wales Millennium Centre and WNO’s technical department.
John Fitzgerald, ABP Port Director, South Wales Ports, who accepted the award earlier this week, said: “ABP’s partnership with WNO has been of enormous benefit to both of us and we are delighted that this award recognises that fact. Our support of WNO has helped them flourish as a world-class opera company while giving our employees and our customers a taste of the very best that modern opera has to offer, and it has been encouraging to see the increasing participation of our staff in these joint initiatives. It has long been said that classical music is good for the brain and for productivity; looking at our good performance, perhaps introducing live opera into our offices played a part in this.”
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