Looking for Temporary Exhibition Space
We are a group of 13 talented up-and-coming photographers on our second year at University of Northampton and would love to have the opportunity to exhibit our images in a temporary photographic exhibition for a couple of weeks next March/April 2011.
Please can anyone with a space or who may know of any spaces reply to this thread.
Tags: exhibition, northampton
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Permalink Reply by Jessica Courtney Bennett on -
You might want to have a look at the Fishmarket in Northampton. I don't know too much about the space but I know it's been used in the past for pop up art markets. Otherwise it might be worth contacting your local council or your town centre manager to see if there are any projects happening you could get involved with or spaces available. It's worth going around your town looking at any that are empty to see if you can push things along yourselves.
If you need some how to tips, take a look at the Meanwhile Project website. There are loads of great documents to help plead the case for temporary uses for empty spaces. http://www.meanwhile.org.uk/useful-info.
I hope this helps. Please let us know how you get on!
Jessica
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Permalink Reply by John Robertson on -
I tried the Estates Manager of Northampton Council recently for shoe factory space.
No luck; they just have a cheap industrial unit to let at market rates. Northampton Enterprise is more interested in getting international employers to come-in than helping local ones.
Googling around their site I saw that the council did let Fishmarket space to a theartre group for one peppercorn a year, which seemed cheap.
Library space could be a good bet - but if they're as short of money as my local council they might ask for volunteers at the library counter in exchange!
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Permalink Reply by John Robertson on
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About studio space: If you could be out for sure by 25th of January the Haynes and Cann factory might be worth contacting. It's a first floor space above the office furniture shop on Overstone Road. Very strange looking for people like me who aren't used to factories: the perfect place to show pictures of Northampton. Contact via web site http://www.haynesandcann.co.uk/ and expect a polite refusal or no response. They might ask for help clearing in exchange for the space.
PS if anyone knows
- 200-1,000 square feet of secure indoor space
- strong floors
- zero or low rent at first
- available a.s.a.p. and before 25 January 2010
I can contact the people selling these machines and ask if they'd partner with me to stay in business making my product. I've got a product and an offer of cheap machines but no space to put the machines in.
I've emailed Northamptonshire Enterprise today too.
There is a derelict building in Great Russell Street NN10 right next to where the machinary now is. I've contacted the landlords and got no reply, and as far as I know there's no way to force a landlord to stop wasting a building.
John Robertson email shop [at] veganline [dot] com
Pics of machines - specially the stoves for moulding hot rubber onto shoes:
43 pictures of shoe machinary - mostly now sold.
This one might make wallets out of tetrapaks.
It's a press on a rail with a kind of microwave attachment so that you can cut and weld at the same time. It probably won't sell or not for much.
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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Delaney on -
Thankyou for your replies Jessica and John - it definitely gives me somewhere to start :)
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