Thursday, April 17, 2014

How Can You Be Involved?

Here is a clear rundown of what we offer:

WE Are a co-space:

Music Venue /Gallery
Private Party Rental
Creative Project or Classes Rental
Yoga/Tai Chi Pop Up Location
Meeting Space Rental
Recording Studio (coming soon)

MUSIC: How we differ from Gallery141's former space (for those of you who enjoyed our space on Water Street 2001-2011), we are flipping the focus from Art-Primary, Music- secondary to the reverse and we are not going to be a retail space with long open hours.  Rather we are answering the needs of the community for a space for amazing sound for musical performance with a hybrid sound system that will be vintage blended with the newest technology.  The best sound engineering available is our goal in this space and Rick, an engineer with a 35 year interest in sound and recording will be working on this as he enters this music phase of his life.  He just retired from the Navy, so we are in the early stages of this now.

ART: Exhibitions will have longer runs and will be just as unique, daring and intense as we held before. We are perfect for rentals for artists with a show to prepare for another space, or artwork to work on that requires a large space.

PERFORMANCE: video recording, set building, or dramatic performance rehearsal, meeting hosting, anything that requires intense quiet (we have 2 ft thick walls and rubber floors so you will be mind blown by the quiet we can offer).  It is a perfect rehearsal, deluxe pre-show hangout space for professional successful musicians who require a place to park their bus and more than just a hotel room.

PARTY: The party rental ranges from kids parties (we have a swing, 300lb tire), teen parties, to very adult, very high end foodie or cigar parties.  Our load in ramp and food prep capabilities are a caterer's dream.

LAYOUT:  Our space was a tobacco warehouse in the late 1800s- early turn of the century.  Most recently it was a boxing gym and was outfitted perfectly to be a music venue with available nearby parking and a pay friendly entry.  We have seating for 100 available.  But when it is not set up for a show it is a very large floor space and a combination of rocker cool with an intimacy that is palpable.  We are developing it to be professional state of the art space that is also personal space and welcoming.  If you are having a hard time imagining this, and think it could work for something you are planning, send me an email at inklingalana@aol.com and I will arrange a visit for you.  Capacity is 125.  We will have after 10:30 events but they will comply with city sound regulations.  Our louder shows will run from daytime hours ending at 10:30 sharp.  We are performance centered, listening room oriented and will not have a liquor license or serve liquor unless it is a private event that is hosted by a LCB compliant vendor or private individual.

DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE: Though I have been involved in the art scene in Lancaster for over a decade at the time of this post, my house in Virginia is under contract and I am moving my permanent residence to Lancaster.  So it is a busy time for me and I anticipate this will continue until the fall.  We hope to be fully outfitted by the holidays of 2014.  In the mean time, if your event is right for us we will continue to host events in our current state of "in process".


Friday, April 11, 2014

Spring Brings More Developments

We continue to share the space with Lancaster artists and musicians for their creative endeavors, and are happy to give a tour to anyone with interest.  We have hosted a few more events of a variety of uses and see the flow of the space with renewed confidence.  If some of the proposed and in the works plans for summer and fall come together as have been envisioned to us it will be a great way to go officially underground!  Our vision continues to be work with the best musicians and facilitators of music in town offering listening room performance, recording space and sanctified gathering space for whatever people need as music in Lancaster continues to come into its own.

The sale of our house in Virginia and our seach for space to call home here is also going to affect the Avenue for at least a few months.

Rick is days away from officially retired from the Navy (as a civilian Engineer) and can not wait to put his full creative energies to music.

We are shaking off this long cold winter and see so much good to come as we find our people and purposes.

Matt Williamson has been so kind to invite us to participate in his event highlighting the diverse venues and  projects coming up in the fresh earth of Lancaster's scene.  We are honored and look forward to connecting with other like minded music lovers.  More on details of this event coming soon.