Stone Nest is an arts organisation that is working to create a new performance space housed in the Welsh Chapel, a Grade II listed building on Shaftesbury Avenue in central London.
Stone Nest’s mission is to promote experimental, unexpected and daring artistic practice across a diverse range of dance, theatre, music, video and performance art, and to bring it to a wide audience in London's West End. The first performance at Stone Nest was given on 15 July 2013, by the New Movement Collective dance group, with a performance called “Nest” inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.
The Norman-style Welsh Chapel was built in 1888 by James Cubitt, who also designed the Union Chapel in Islington, north London. The building comprises central space with an umbrella dome, a large basement, and attached manse. From 1985 to 2003 the chapel was home to the Limelight Club, and subsequently a branch of the Walkabout sports bar chain.
Stone Nest is a charitable foundation supported by Mikhail Verozub, a businessman and philanthropist originating from Ukraine and Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Stone Nest has managed to procure the use of the Welsh Chapel through the support of Mikhail Verozub’s family and related entities.