Behind the scenes - Exhibition Pixies at work!!

As you can imagine, we can't really be hanging paintings when the cafe is open, so this afternoon/evening Bik and I have been working with some of the members of Red Hot Press printmaking workshop to get their first exhibition of 2011 on our walls, ready for the opening tomorrow night.

Hanging an exhibition is lots of fun, but we're always surprised at how long it can take....... like a giant jigsaw puzzle, which always seems to come together perfectly in the end!
















In the meantime, Jonathan spent yesterday evening taking down the previous exhibition, and Tony has just this minute finished packing it all up, safe and sound until the artists come to collect it during the week.

Now I'm up in the office, doing the catalogue, printing labels, setting up the sales file and generally making sure everything runs smoothly. This is the less exciting, but very important to make sure we look after our artists and their work properly.

Like a well oiled machine!! Lubricated with TEA (which reminds me, time for another cuppa!).

Bik & Jani

Monday, and here we are again!!

Oh yes, the building work continued and Zigz was in nice and early to start making cakes and let Chris the builder in! The baby change unit is up and I'm hiding up here whilst the chandelier gets put up (I'm still recovering from the mission involved in hanging the one in the loo! Me and my bright ideas!)

I've just finished hanging the Iris Hill show and it's just BEAUTIFUL.

Saturday night was a total joy with Keya Bobo playing (they were just mindblowingly awesome) and lots of people dancing :) We put the tickets as 'Magic Hat' and people nominated the price, so that all could come and pay what they could afford. On the whole people were very generous and we're going to run this system as much as we can, it's a nice way of staying affordable.

This week we have lots on, as always, sometimes I have to pinch myself when I look at our programme - it's twice what some fully-funded arts centres put on - shows what can be done with a lot of passion & strong will (and coffee!).