8th April 2010
Its not two months since the fire and it seems we may have found a long term replacement building – a mill just outside Kendal.
Its been so busy these last couple of weeks – meetings and viewing premises, liaising with South Lakes District Council, meetings with landlords, more meetings of our steering group. Nothing much else has had a look in.
But now its both exciting and anxiety provoking as we have found the almost perfect space. Its bigger and more expensive. It allows us to develop Green Door in ways we have always dreamt of but the challenge is to make the figures work.
We were about to sign up to another old mill space one morning last week but then in the afternoon a call came in about a mill on an industrial estate and when we saw it we knew it was right.
Space for studios, community workshops, exhibitions, residencies, resource areas – printing and digital – it will be amazing to have such a resource for the South Lakes, the Green Door studio holders and our associate artist members (approx 90).
When the news came through about the fire, no one could have foreseen that inside of two months later we would have found this jewel.
Now we have to organise ourselves, seek more funding, equip the building, review our constitution and organisational status, speak with existing and potential partners, develop plans and strategies and at some point, maintain an art practice. Should keep us quiet for a while.
Watch this space. More info as soon as its signed and sealed.
