Tourism chiefs plan to create a database of Bermuda?s concert, theatre and party venues to help entertainers find places to host events.

Bermuda Alliance for Tourism (BAT) says entertainers and promoters have reported problems in finding places to stage performances ? despite the Island having dozens of venues.

The alliance, in partnership with the Entertainment Report Implementation Task Force (ITF), will be calling venues over the next few weeks to gather information for the database.

It will eventually be available on the Internet and in print and will provide information including photographs, addresses, contact numbers, event suitability and venue capacity. Once launched, the two organisations plan a similar database for performers.

Wayne Smith, executive director of BAT, said: ?The impetus for this database came from entertainers. One of the challenges is the perceived lack of venues for events.

?While the popular venues may be well known, the ITF has already identified dozens of venues that event promoters might not have considered.?

He added that the idea was to make it easier for everyone to locate suitable venues and to allow venues to publicise themselves.

Stuart Hayward, chairman of the ITF and consultant to the Ministry of Community Affairs, said: ?This is being done to add value to Bermuda?s entertainment product. There will be no charge for being listed.?

Venues wishing to be listed can call BAT on 292-1BAT (228) during office hours.

l Feminist artist Kathy Harriott will stage her first solo exhibition later this month at the Edinburgh Gallery, City Hall.

Ms Harriott, who is also clinical supervisor and counsellor at the Island's Women's Resource Centre, has created the installation from ?found objects?, including nails and barbed wire.

She described the Bermuda Society of Arts exhibition as being about accessibility. ?It asks what is it, who's got it and why?? she said. ?The installation features objects made with found materials. I'd call it a feminist work.?

The free exhibition is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday from February 24 to March 15.