# Where culture happens

> Not audiences or funding — the rooms culture needs in order to happen.

- Category: People
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `culture-points`
- Source: [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/cultural-infrastructure-map-2ko88/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/where-culture-happens](https://londongraph.com/g/where-culture-happens)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-culture-happens](https://londongraph.com/data/where-culture-happens)

## Methodology

Every venue on the GLA's Cultural Infrastructure Map: theatres, music venues, artists' workspaces, rehearsal studios, LGBTQ+ venues, libraries and more, each placed and coloured by typology. This counts spaces rather than activity — a large venue and a single rehearsal room are one dot each.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/where-culture-happens): Not audiences or funding — the rooms culture needs in order to happen.
- [Hotspots](https://londongraph.com/g/where-culture-happens?view=hotspots): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Breakdown](https://londongraph.com/g/where-culture-happens?view=breakdown): Summarise the categories represented by the mapped records without loading every coordinate.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.