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Green Door Rising |
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Green Door Studios in Kendal, Cumbria, was gutted by fire on 19th February 2010. The artists who worked there have been devastated by the loss of their premises,
as well as years of work and materials. As part of a series of fundraising events towards the regeneration of Green Door and securing new premises, LIVE ART is an evening of live music, workshops and an art auction.  The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, have generously provided their Malt Room venue to host LIVE ARTon Saturday 17th July 2010. Thanks to local music education charity Music Links, the programme of live music features some of the very best acts in the North West music scene. DIY blues maestro Phil Saunders is our MC for the night, introducing performances from folk/roots group The Karin Johansen Band, sinister electronica from Liquidscreamer, anti-folk pioneers Existence Of Harvey Lord and lo-fi post-punks Captain Stogie. To complete this stellar line-up, Green Door are delighted to announce that recently reformed local legends Seven Seals will headline the show with their unique brand of lyrical, reeling rock'n'roll The Brewery will also host a series of Green Door art workshops for adults and children throughout the day, while a week-long art auction comes to a head in the Brewery Intro Bar in the evening. The live music starts around 7pm and finishes at 11.30pm. Tickets will be available priced £10 from the Brewery Box Office and website, and also include free entry to Solesides nightclub, where DJs Sam Pemberton and Robin Walker with special guests will be playing through to the wee small hours. Thanks to the generosity of the Brewery and Solesides, all money raised by LIVE ART will go to the Green Door regeneration fund and the ongoing search for new premises See the events page for details of the workshops. For more LIVE ART information contact Monica Metsers at: mmetsers@hotmail.com The Green Door StoryGreen Door Studios was formed in 1995 by a collective of independent contemporary artists based in Kendal, Cumbria. As well as the twelve studio-based members, Green Door has an extended membership of over eighty artists drawn from throughout South Lakeland. The group has been involved in an enormous number of educational and community projects, run both by the organisation as a whole and by individual members. Green Door has remained committed to making contemporary art accessible to local residents and visitors to the area, with artists having participated in solo and joint exhibitions in major galleries throughout the region, nationally and internationally. On the night of 19th February 2010, an arson attack on the Highgate building spread to the studio. Thankfully no one was hurt, but by the time fire-fighters had extinguished the blaze, most of the artists' work and materials had been damaged or destroyed by fire, smoke, heat and water damage. Worse still, the studios were ruined. With the roof reduced to a skeleton, the building was declared structurally unsound and Green Door was left without a premises. The South Lakeland District Council's immediate response was to support the artists by negotiating alternative temporary studio space within Kendal College and by way of a regeneration grant for individual artists. A regeneration fund was set up within days of the blaze to fund the relocation of Green Door to a new studio. Temporary storage space was also generously provided by Staveley Mill Yard. However, this is not a permanent solution and the artists are actively seeking permanent premises in which to resume their work. Green Door Studios is a self-organised, not for profit organisation supported by the Arts Council England, South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria County Council. If you want to contact us email Rosie Wates at: rosiewates@kencomp.net
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