Budget...

We have made a quick table of what we have spent so far on everything:

Venue: (£10 each)
£30 for the venue
£60 deposit (which we will get back)
£0 venue next door

Advertising: (£17.50 each)
£20.32 for vista print (small banner, 100 post cards, 25 magnets)
£99 for leaflets
£40.96 for printing cake sale and fundraising leaflets

In the Venue:
£0 Teas and cakes (shop on Albert Road)
£0 Teas and coffee (Tesco)
£0 4 chairs

This comes to a total of £250.28 (£27.80 each). I'm quite proud of that. Instead of asking for money we have managed to get a lot of free things or discounted things.

We are hoping to get around £60 or £70 from the bake sale and hopefully make a bit of profit from the pub quiz. We are thinking of having another bake sale at the start of December, both for publicity and to raise a bit more money. A lot still has to be done so we need to keep the discounts coming!

Meeting...

Today we had another meeting where we just wanted to finalise some ideas. We started off discussing the whole leaflets debate - whether to get 1000 or 5000. We did some quick calculations and realised that if we get 5000 we will have to distribute about 555 each, which isn't too much considering where we want to have them distributed.

Instead of discussing the amount of leaflets, we wanted to look at how we were going to get rid of them. There about about 10 university building and in each building we would leave a little stash of leaflets (about 200). This means we would have already got rid of 2000. Then there are also buildings like the gym, the library, all the cafes and the halls of residence. Distributing in all these places would be at least another 1000 leaflets. That means we'll have 2000 leaflets left and with these we will stand on the street in Gunwharf, Commercial Road and Albert Road to distribute them. We will also ask shops along Albert Road whether we could leave some leaflets in their shop/pub/cafe for further distribution.

In the end we decided we would have to get 5000 - as everyone said, we'd rather have too many than not enough. This will cost us £11 each which everyone is paying me today and tomorrow. We need to order the leaflets as soon as possible because we need to start advertising!

Another element we spoke about was the venue next door. I got a call this morning from the property management company explaining to me that people are interested in renting the space next door! Very bad news - although the lady I have been speaking to explained to me that she is going to ask the people who are interested whether it is urgently needed in the second week of December. She is helping us in every way she can so hopefully we will still have it. 

Next we decided to look at fundraising. We have already confirmed the bake sale on the 11th of November. Now all we need to get are leaflets for that and all the baking ingredients. My mum has kindly given us brownie mix and a few cupcake mixes, so that is a good start. We decided that ordering another set of leaflets would be useless and too expensive. We all agreed on the fact that most of the people coming to our bake sale will already be at Eldon and will stumble upon the event rather than making their way from another building just for the bake sale. Because of this we don't find in necessary to print too many leaflets. We have come to the conclusion that Tom will print these leaflets himself. He managed to get a very good deal on Amazon for paper (£23.96 for 400 leaflets) and ink will only cost about £17. This would all come down to about £4.50 each. About 100 will go towards the bake sale and 300 will go towards the pub quiz. We still haven't got a final date for the pub quiz. Hannah has been in contact with the Fawcett in and has made sure we can get equipment such as a microphone and such for the pub quiz although there isn't a finalised date. Once we have decided on everything, we will also make A4 posters to hang up around central Portsmouth and the Albert Road area. We want to get as many students there as possible!

We have also been back to the venue to look at the risk assessment. Tom, Adam and Kate were in charge of it and the have written down everything they could think of, although they couldn't complete it yet because the only way we know what the risks will be is if everything we need is in the venue. 

Leaflets...

We decided that we wanted to print 1000 leaflets instead of 5000 so I have been contacting a few leaflet printing companies. The first company I contacted was arboreal printing, they told us we could get 5000 leaflets for £125. However, when I spoke to them today, they told me that getting 1000 leaflets would cost £125. This clearly means the offer we got was a massive discount! 

The second company I contacted was called expert print and they explained to me that they were currently the cheapest printers around and that they wouldn't be able to give me a discount, although they did have an offer on at the moment which was 5000 leaflets for only £99! But again, it is for 5000 leaflets. I reckon that getting 5000 would be a good amount, especially because it would cost about £10 each (plus free delivery!).

The third company I heard back from said that could give me 1000 leaflets for £43. This means it would only be £4.80 each which obviously is a lot cheaper. But at the same time, for about £5 more we could get 4000 more leaflets. It's a tough decision. 

Venue...

I phoned the lady from the property management company again today to get a final confirmation on the venue next door and it has been confirmed! I will have to phone them up again on Friday the 2nd of December in order to make an appointment to collect the keys. I will be able to get the keys on the Monday before we open and am allowed to keep it until the exhibition is finished. This means we will have twice as much space as we have now, which gives us a lot more to work with! 

Lightbox gallery...

I visited the Lightbox gallery in Woking a couple weeks ago and it was quite helpful towards this project. There wasn't a photography exhibition on at the moment, but I enjoyed it regardless. The exhibition that was on throughout the whole gallery was called "From the Realm of the Dragon: The Ceramic Heritage of Zibo, China. Every room had different collections of ceramics in them, but I think that it was thanks to the layout of the rooms that it didn't look clustered. 

The gallery was very spacious and instead of looking at the ceramics as something ordinary, having it exhibited in such a large area it looked sacred and the ceramics are fully appreciated. All the rooms in the gallery were designed in the 'white cube' style, again making everything look inspirational. 

There were two rooms that didn't take part in this exhibition. One of the rooms was the completely opposite of the 'white cube' style of presenting. To me it looked very full, almost too busy to appreciate the work, and there seemed to be a lot going on. There were large stickers with text on the floor (left), it had tv screens with headsets, many artefacts, a dress up area for children and much more. Although it did take into consideration a bit of what everyone likes, it was almost too full. The part of the exhibition I did like were the photos. There were presented in grid format matching photographs with artefacts.

The other room was similar to the ceramics gallery in the way that it was very simple. The room had paintings all along the walls and in the middle were about 20 chairs facing the walls where people could sit and view the work. It was very simple, yet professional. I like the elegance a 'white cube' gallery portrays, it is simple and to the point. There aren't any distractions and people will only focus on your work. 

Sneak peak...

The theme of this project is territories. To me the word comes across as quite menacing and alarming so for this project I wanted to steer clear of that definition and look at social groups and neighbourhoods – a more positive adaptation. I found an old Nunnery in the Woking area which had been converted into houses and apartments while still keeping its Victorian style architecture. My photographs portray the reconstruction of the Nunnery into a modern living space by combining the architecture with contemporary interiors of the houses.

Sponsors...

We have contacted about 60 companies to see whether they could sponsor us and in exchange we could put their logo on all of our social networking sites and our website. Unfortunately we haven't heard anything positive back yet. Most of the companies have said no because they get so many requests. Some companies, like Starbucks, do want to help and have said this on their website: "Contributing positively to our local communities is important to Starbucks and our stores will be happy to support local community events in any way possible. Please contact the store manager of your local store to find out what support they may be able to offer you". Hopefully at least one of the many companies we have emailed are able to help us as anything will be appreciated. 

Fundraising...

We have got our first fundraising event coming up! We are going to have a bake sale at the Eldon building on the 11th of November from 12 until 3pm. The money we raise will be used either for leaflet printing of for the venue. We are all chipping in some money to get all of the products we need to make cakes. My mum has kindly given us a few cake mixes, which means we'd only need to buy milk and eggs. 

I am also going to contact Krispy Kreme to see whether they could provide us with some doughnuts we could sell and make use of their fundraising scheme. We are aiming to earn about £100 from this bake sale.

Hannah has been in contact with the Fawcett Inn to get a date for the Pub Quiz. We have already gotten permission to have a pub quiz, although we haven't chosen a date yet. We have created a mock-up leaflet of the event so when we know the details we can just put them on and distribute the leaflet.
Kate has managed to get a hold of a quiz book where we will get some questions from. We haven't decided on a prize yet but I think the prize will be something like a bottle of wine.

Leaflets...

We have finally got a leaflet design. It has taken a while because everyone was looking for different things. During the meeting we had on Thursday, we looked at all of the leaflets that had been designed so far and decided to make something that included everything. We really liked the idea of having a photo of teas and cakes on the leaflet, although in the end it just looked a bit too full.

The final leaflet design has been created by Tom and I. We looked at all the leaflets and all the information that had to be on the leaflet. We didn't want the leaflet to look to busy nor too empty. We wanted to show it was an exhibition and that we are part of the University of Portsmouth. It shows our other networking sites as well as our website and a QR code. It shows two sponsors as well as the obvious information such as what, when and where. 

We decided on printing 5000 leaflets, although in the meeting everyone agreed on the fact that 5000 might be a bit too much, although 500 wouldn't be enough. I emailed aboreal printing (who gave us the best deal) to see whether we could print 1000 leaflets. I haven't heard anything back yet, but hopefully I will soon.

Vistaprint...

Since being part of Vistaprint I have been getting emails non-stop about amazing discounts I can get on the website, on Thursday I collected £2 from everyone in my group and ordered some things from Vistaprint. I ordered some things both for me (which I obviously paid for myself) and for the group. For myself I ordered 250 business cards and a business card holday (only £0.34 for both!) and for the group I ordered a small banner with our logo and website on it, 25 small magnets and100 postcards of our leaflet. I could only order 4 things because if I added anything more I wouldn't get a discount. The total price was only £5.35 although there was £11.57 shipping and £3.40 VAT, although without the savings I would have spent about £60. I should receive this order in 7 days, I might want to order some more things from Vistaprint, although we have to wait for fundraising before we can do anything else.

Venue...

We got the contract for Ultraviolet which is pretty straight forward. It says we cannot play loud music, aren't allowed to have access amounts of alcohol and can't break anything. We are getting the venue for two weeks but are only paying for one. We have decided we want the venue from the 28th of November until the 12th of December. This way, in the first week we have it we can display our artea photography posters in the window. This might be able to spark some interested for the locals who walk past it everyday. 

It is about 90% certain that we have the venue next door as well. I phoned the company again because I hadn't heard anything back and the lady who I spoke to last time explained that she contacted the owner and he said it would be fine to get the venue if it hadn't been rented out by then. Because the exhibition is only 5 weeks away, she said it is highly unlikely someone is going to rent it out before then. She also told me that we could get the venue for free and have it for a whole week! The owner is currently on holiday but will be back today. The lady I spoke to will phone the owner again to decide when I can pick up the keys and so I can get a quick viewing of the place. After she has done that she will phone me again. 

Adam has spoken to Joe Alabaster (Ultraviolet Owner) and asked him whether he has a risk assessment for the place, he doesn't so we will have to make our own. He also asked if Joe has a ramp for wheelchair access and he does! He'll put that in for the opening. The problem is that we have found out that Tyran's wheelchair doesn't fit through the door, at the moment we are hoping that the door to the second venue will be large enough to fit a wheelchair through. 

Website...

Our website has now officially launched! There are still a few things that aren't quite working yet but we will be fixing that in the next couple of days. We have already got 180 views since it has been launched so it is already started to get popular. 

When you first open the website, you will see the logo and you will have to click on the leaf, this brings you to the home page. There is a little introduction of the event on there as well as a link to twitter so that you can immediately see what has been happening on twitter. There is a menu to the side of the page which consists of the exhibiting, the photographers, contact us, sponsors, fundraising and partners. The exhibition page displays a photo of our venue, Ultraviolet, and also displays the location on a map. It includes the opening times and explains who will be giving out teas and cakes on the opening day. The photographers page shows a list of all the photographers who are in our group and when you click on a name it takes you to a short bio, a gallery and contact details for that specific person. Contact us contains all of our emails as well as the arteaphotography email: contactus@arteaphotography.net. When you click on sponsors it shows a list of all the people that have helped us out so far and who are willing to give us a discount. Under fundraising it shows all of our fundraising ideas and explains when and where we will be fundraising. Lastly, the partners page has links to other groups in our year who are also having exhibitions. 

The website will be constantly updated, just like twitter and facebook as there will always be new sponsors or new fundraising events. Check out www.arteaphotography.net to find out when our next fundraising event is!

Social networking...

Sorry for not posting for a while, I have been having trouble with the internet!

Both me and Tom have been updating the twitter site and tweeting away. We have managed to get 14 followers and one of the people we are following has tweeted back and asked for our website so they can promote it for us. We are still trying to get more and more followers but the only way to do that is to keep tweeting!

Since Laura is on holiday this week I am also in charge of the facebook page. We have got 26 people that "like" our page and 14 people have "talked about our event". It is important that we keep updating both our twitter and our facebook page to keep people interested.

Twitter...

I decided I wanted to be in charge of the Twitter page. This is my very first time on twitter, ever, so it's been a bit of a complicated start. The most difficult thing on twitter must be the fact that everything has an extremely short word limit, as you can tell I quite like typing away! When I logged onto the page there was 1 post and we had 0 followers. Not a great start! I added a few more updates and decided to contact lots of local twitter companies (that look into events around Portsmouth) and asked the whether they could possibly promote us. 

To the left is a little snapshot from our twitter feed. If you click on it the image will be enlarged. It shows all the tweets I've written to other twitter groups but also shows that we have 4 followers! Pretty exciting news! I'm still not quite sure how to use twitter, but I quite like it. It's something new and interesting and I'm always up for learning new stuff. 

The image below shows that we are promoting our twitter on facebook. This might results into more followers as well. Tom brother is also on twitter and has a few followers so Tom is going to see whether he could get his brothers followers to follow us as well. I think right now I'll have to keep tweeting and hope to gain more followers!

Risk assessment...

We had a lecture a couple days ago about risk assessment. It basically thought us that we need to look at all the little details, even if things seem harmless to us we need to think of any kind of possible risks. The three main things to look at are the setting up of the gallery, the actually exhibition and finally the dismantling of the exhibition. 

Setting up: 

While setting up the exhibition we need to make sure that all the fire exits are still reachable. We have a small venue with one door so that basically means we cannot build anything by the door. If we are going to be building something that requires a framework we need to be 100% that the framework won’t collapse or that it won’t be slippery. If we are adding a podium to our show we need to make sure there isn’t any slipping or tripping hazard and if we get a ladder in to hang something up high we need to check that out before we use it too. We always need to consider cables as people can easily trip on them. 

The exhibition: 

We aren’t allowed to have anything near the door. There needs to always be a 1 meter wide pathway throughout the exhibition to get to the door (in case of a fire). If we have tables and chairs we need to make sure they are all in working order. When using lights, we need to make sure they don’t flash as anyone with epilepsy could react to it badly. 

Dismantling: 

The dismantling procedure would be quite similar to setting up. Make sure nothing is in the way of the fire exit, there aren’t any wires to trip on etc. 

Another thing we need to consider is that we have quite a high step up to get into the gallery. This is a tripping hazard so need to be noted down. Joe Alabaster said that he might be able to get a ramp (for wheelchair access) which would be less of a hazard but I think we will also end up putting some yellow and black tape up on the floor to make sure it catches people’s eyes. Another hazard by the door would be a slipping hazard if it is wet. The exhibition will be held in December and it could be snowy or rainy outside. If people come inside with their wet shoes it will get very slippery. We might have to invest in getting a mat to make sure it doesn’t get wet inside. 

We must ask Joe Alabaster for an electrical certificate to see whether all the lights are allowed to be used. We will also ask him whether he has got a risk assessment of the place so we can get an idea of what we need to write down. 

For the chairs we are hiring/buying we might need to ask the University whether they could lend us a van. We would use the van to move chairs from one area to the other. This eliminates the hazard of us falling while holding the chairs or getting back problems for example.  

Although some things might seem a bit silly and pointless to write down, if anything does happen and we haven’t put it down on the risk assessment form we might get it big trouble. If we get taken to court, the risk assessment form is one of the first things they look at and it could save us a lot of trouble!

Shirley Read...

I borrowed the book "Exhibiting Photography", by Shirley Read, from the library and it has been a huge help to me. Below are some notes I took thanks to the book - it basically covers the idea of what an exhibition is and all the steps we need to take along the way to get it up and running. I do want to apologise for the length of this post! 

What is an Exhibition?

--Any conventional exhibition space (which can include commercial and publicly and privately funded galleries and museums)

--A variety of other spaces where work is sometimes shows (such as community centres, open studios, cafes, bars, restaurants, libraries, cinema and theatre foyers, schools, colleges, and churches)

--Temporary spaces or events (such as photo fairs and festivals, talks, workshops, and conferences)

--Online galleries and web sites (such as Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook)

--Other people’s homes (through sales and loans)

--The street and public art (including hoardings, projections, performances, hospitals, and other public buildings)

--Photographic competitions that result in an exhibition

--Exhibition catalogues, publications and press images

--CDs

“I completed a major piece of work and then sent out the usual promotional information to curators and editors. Much to my dismay I heard nothing for over a year – then out of the blue, in the space of a fortnight, I received exhibition offers from two curators. My advice to photographers is not to give up or lose confidence in the work. Don’t put it away and forget it!” – Grace Lau, photographer

8 Reasons to exhibit:

--Getting the work seen

--Selling photographs

--It’s a career marking point

--To get feedback about the work

--It’s good practice

--It marks the completion of the work

--To build up connections and a mailing list

--It’ll lead to something else

Promotional Tools:

--Business cards – easily kept in a photographer’s wallet and is generally useful when making new contacts.

--Postcards – people enjoy postcards and they are a good way to circulate an image.

--CDs – useful in that they can be posted or left with a potential client or curator as a reference, record or reminder.

--Portfolios – to show curator a potential show

--Website – hold a broader range of work and can reach to a wider geographically distant audience

What is the curator’s role?

“Curators are, above all, the institutionally recognized experts of the art world establishment, whether they operate inside an institution or independently. More than art critics or gallery dealers, they establish the meanings and status of contemporary art through its acquisition, exhibition, and interpretation”. – Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator of Latin American Art

Presentation:

Presentation is crucial to the installation of photographs in the gallery. Photographers talk about the presentation of their work all the time, unlike painters and sculptors for whom presentation is usually a secondary consideration. For both curator and photographer, discussion of different options in mounting, framing, sizing and editing or sequencing work can take priority over discussion of the photograph itself.

These are the words of Shirley Read, although I do not agree with the above statement. I think that the most important thing is the photograph. I would rather want people to speak about my photograph and its composition, colours and meaning rather than the way it is presented.

Hiring a gallery:

Hiring a gallery brings with it all the advantages of having a space specifically designed for showing artwork. The gallery should also have systems in place for promoting the work and attracting visitors.

One of the key things to remember when you do hire a gallery is that, as far as the gallery is concerned, taking down the show is as important as putting it up. If you leave the gallery in a mess, that particular gallery won’t hire it to you again and may bill you for cleaning, damage and redecoration.

Planning:

--Timetabling

--Budgeting

--Fundraising

--Organizing publicity and invitations

--Talking to press

--Planning exhibition design and presentation

--Arranging transport

--Planning accompanying events, educational programs, or artists’ talks

--Preparing the venue

--Planning the private view

--Organizing gallery attendants, security personnel, or invigilators during opening times

--Preparing to hang the work and clean up afterward

--Writing all the exhibition texts including captions and titles

--Pricing and insuring work

Text:

One of the most neglected areas of exhibition preparation is generally the text. This is often because photographers see themselves as visual rather than verbal people and either dislike writing or ignore its importance in showing the work. But exhibitions almost always entail a certain amount of textual material.

Text should include:

--An introduction to the exhibition and texts that accompany the images or different sections of the exhibition

--Artist’s statement

--Titles

--Captions

Remember to:

--Keep text short

--Keep it straightforward

--All basic and essential information is covered (places, dates, names)

--Avoid emotive words and keep an objective tone

--Avoid intimate personal statements

Attracting a local audience:

One of the audiences an artist can reach is a local audience – casual passersby as well as regular visitors, people who have seen a review in a local paper or heard through word of mouth that the exhibition is interesting. Local audiences are sometimes slightly resistant to looking at artwork, feeling perhaps that it is outside their experience to visit a gallery, so it is worth making a particular effort to bring them into the exhibition.

--Local newspapers

--Talk to owners of shops, restaurants, wine bars or cafe’s in the nearby area

--Invite passersby

Documenting and evaluation:

--You need to keep a record for you own reference and c.v. As unbelievable as it seems at the time, you may well have forgotten basic details of the exhibition (such as dates and names of co-exhibitors) by the time you need to quote them

--You need to keep a record to show to galleries, critics, curators or publishers and to use when giving a talk or lecture about the work in the future

--It will be useful when looking for promotion, sponsorship or funding in the future

--It will be useful as a visual record of work that is on tour, on loan, sold or in storage

--It will be useful to keep track of work sold

--It may be useful for insurance purposes

--Galleries are sometimes fairly short-lived, and many galleries are poor record keepers. Do not assume that you will be able to ask them for information in a few years’ time

--The evaluation should provide you with concrete evidence of what works and what does not. It will be a useful reference for every exhibition in the future and help you analyse and use the experience you gained

Social Networking...

Along with the website, we have created a bigger online presence. We have decided to create a twitter page (http://twitter.com/arteaexhibition) where we will update our followers with what we have been up to. We have also created a facebook event and a facebook page. The event already has 47 people attending and 10 maybe's, so that's looking good! A few people have commented on it saying which day they would be coming, this will definitely be good to know because we don't want the place to be too crowded! At the moment our facebook page only has 18 likes. All the members of our group are trying to invite people to join our page for regular updates of our progression as well as getting some sneak peaks of the work we are exhibiting. 

Money...

As we haven't got any fundraising at the moment we have been working out what needs to be paid so far. The venue for the whole week is £30 and there is a £60 deposit. The domain name (for a whole year) is £7. We are thinking that we should take about £90 our to pay towards cake ingredients and to furniture hire. Printing 500 leaflets would be about £35 (from refresh printing) 

All together this would come to about £187 which comes to £24.70 each. I think this is a very reasonable price for each of us to contribute to the project. Laura and Adam are in charge of money so we will be paying them. 

Presentation...

Today we had to present what we have done up until now to our lectures. It was a marked presentation so we had about 3 meetings (2 in one day!) to sort out the presentation and what everyone was going to say.

The presentation started off with introducing our idea of artea and why we wanted to have this approach. This was followed by the many logo's we came up with and after that a general introduction to all the venues we had been looking at. From them on it started to get more specific. Adam spoke about Ultraviolet and mentioned where it was located and the size of it. I then added that I spoke to the venue next door about perhaps renting that as well. Laura had drawn up a floor plan of the space so she had a little chat about what would go where.

The next slide was about the tea ladies. Hannah had been in contact with a small little tea shop on Albert Road, she absolutely loves it there so decided to go in and ask the owner whether they could cater at our exhibition. They were very willing and told her that they would supply the tea for free and have the cakes paid for. This is how they would be making their profit so they didn't need any money from us! We assured them that we would promote their business both on our website as well as at the gallery itself.

Then it was my turn. I spoke about the leaflet designs as well as the companies I have contacted about printing. I explained that we wanted to have quite simple leaflets that are easy to understand. Tom and Kate also made leaflets and added a QR code. This basically means that if you have a smart phone you can scan in the QR code and it will take you directly to the artea website.

The following slide was by Naomi. She had contacted 17 companies that could possibly help us with our exhibition. One of them was Tesco, they said that they would give us free teas and cakes! We would only have the tea ladies in for one day so Tesco would help us out for the other 2 days. She also heard back from a photography magazine (www.ephotozine.com) who let us have our poster advertised in their online magazine! Another company she heard back from was blurb. They are willing to give us 25% off on all photobooks. This will definitely come in handy seeing as we are printing portfolios!

The slide after that was mine again. This one was about advertising. It basically stated that we will get an advertisement in a photography magazine. It also had future ideas such as talking to the first and third years to see whether they would be interested to come and view our show. We are going to distribute our leaflets in as many places as we can. We are currently thinking of having a few leaflets in Eldon, standing outside in Commercial Road and handing people leaflets as well as handing leaflets out at train stations. We want to hang up posters in Eldon and other University buildings, as well as hang them up in some shops (if we can get permission) and hang them in Ultraviolet before the opening day (if possible). Another important aspect of advertising is business cards. We want to get them both for artea and for ourselves. If people want to contact us after the show has finished they could get our details on the business card! We are also getting pens (mentioned in an earlier post) and we are thinking of also getting "tea-shirts" which we would wear when distributing the leaflets and on the day itself.

Another important thing to consider is fundraising. We haven't manage to earn any money yet but we have got some things lined up. Hannah has contacted the student union and asked whether we could have a bakesale there. They said it would be fine if we get a hygiene certificate. We are also going to have a pub quiz at the Fawcett inn. Hannah has also spoken to them and they are very willing. They want to turn that pub into more of a student pub and are therefore very eager to help us. The pub quiz would be £1 to enter and will have a whole range of questions. The team who wins will obviously get a prize but we haven't decided on what yet.

Tom finished off the presentation by talking about the website: www.arteaphotography.net. He explained what would be on the website and thoroughly went through all the sections the website includes.

Next door...

When we visited Ultraviolet, about a week ago, we saw that the place to the right of the gallery was empty. We all thought it would be a brilliant idea to phone them up and ask whether we could hire that space as well. This would mean we would have enough space to both put work up on the wall as well as have our portfolio's and a little sitting area for the teas and cakes. However, everyone kind of kept putting it off. We were so excited about having Ultraviolet and designing leaflets and creating websites and facebook groups we kind of lost track of the idea of hiring next door. 

This morning I decided to (finally) phone them up and ask them whether it was possible. I spoke to a very kind lady and explained to her what we were looking to do. She said it shouldn't be a problem and told me she would phone up the landlord and ask him whether it was possible and how much it would cost. She will ring me back at some point tomorrow or during the weekend to let me know what's going on. Hopefully we can get the space next door for a reasonable price, it would solve some of the issues we've got at the moment.