'venue' in this context means...
venue:
SOURCE TEXT:The scene of a real or supposed action or event.
The site of a [JBT: fiction or nonfiction]...performance...
[rare] A sally in order to assault... An attack.
[JBT: poetic/symbolic -> an assault on the public consciousness]
Lesley Brown (Editor) The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Clarendon Press:Oxford, 1993
EDIT/DESIGN: JBT
