Target reached! Stretch target: £140,000
Our initial target is £20000 to secure a long lease o project space. If we reach th...
Save Redwing Arts and Community Hub
Penzance, England, United Kingdom
Aim: Our building is under threat from development: We need help to secure a long-term base for Redwing arts and community hub.
Please visit the second stage of our Crowdfunder at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/redwingcic. Check out what we can do if we reach our £140,000 stretch target!
Save Redwing arts and community hub in Penzance, Cornwall, UK
GALLERY-COMMUNITY HUB-CAFE-STUDIOS
Why are we crowdfunding?
The building which has been home to our community project for 4 years is up for sale and developers are looming.
We reached our original target of £20,000 and are now aiming for our stretch target of £140,000 to secure a fit-for-purpose long-term base for Redwing to continue. Without this base, artists excluded by the mainstream art world will have nowhere to show their work and cash-strapped individuals and groups will have nowhere to meet.
A tremendous amount of time and effort and the input of many people has transformed the neglected shell of what was an empty shop into a vibrant and welcoming community hub.
There is no comparable venue in our community with Redwing's inclusiveness and diversity.
2013... a disused, neglected shell.
After all the work... an art gallery for previously unseen art, affordable studios and a vibrant meeting space. We need it to continue.
If the site is sold to a developer we could be told to leave at very short notice.
We need to raise a lump sum to guarantee stable, long-term premises so that our project can continue.
Why is our project needed?
The mainstream art world excludes many creative people for many reasons. We aim to address this:
REDWING GALLERY is an alternative arts space where artists of all ages and all backgrounds are valued equally.
Redwing's mission: to be inclusive and approachable, supporting all; professional artists, people with learning difficulties, physical and sensory disabilities and mental health issues as well as people who lack the technical skills, social skills or financial circumstances needed to fit the commercial norm.
Since 2011 we have welcomed thousands of visitors each year to exhibitions by artists from Cornwall and beyond.
Result: improved confidence, self-esteem and incomes for marginalised people.
THE REDWING HUB -a friendly, inclusive community centre where a wide cross section of the community will get together for group activities and meetings, social support, information sharing and a host of other things:
BBC Get Creative at Redwing.
Dance classes and exercise eg African Dance, Salsa, Tango, Tai Chi, Poetry and Spoken Word, LGBTQ group, language classes, music groups, live performance (theatre, poetry, variety), film screenings, art exhibitions, practical workshops for children and adults...
Friends of the Earth, the Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom, Momentum, Green Party, Timebank and other groups will be able to hold meetings, screenings and events at Redwing.
We will have a quiet work/ study place with free wifi and low cost printing and laminating.
REDWING STUDIOS- affordable artists studios, hired on a monthly basis.
We already have 4 artists studios in our current space and a waiting list of artists.
REDWING OPEN ACCESS STUDIO will be available to hire by the hour or day. It will be equipped with printmaking presses, screen printing equipment, and materials and equipment for papermaking and bookbinding.
Redwing will run free and affordable classes and workshops in everything from bookbinding to yurt building .
We will offer free advice and mentoring. Artists will be able to take part in training sessions in presentation, stretching canvas, framing, photography or writing an artist's statement.
Testimonials and recommendations
Thank you to B & Q for donating paint, to Cornwall Community Foundation, Co-operative Bank, FEAST, Devon and Cornwall Police, the Cornishman, Arts Council England and Cornwall Council for funding, to The Hypatia Trust, Open Shed and Mr and Mrs Booker for having allowed us to use their buildings and to all our volunteers and supporters.
Thank you to everyone who has helped with this Crowdfunder campaign, including Santander, Arts Council England and the team at Crowdfunder plus all those who have pledged and shared.
"Had an amazing time visiting Redwing Gallery in Penzance - a volunteer run outsider art space, workshop, second hand book/record/junk shop, studios and veggie/vegan cafe! Amazing place and I had the best vegan chocolate brownie ever. Super cool find!"
"Absolutely wonderful place. Thank you for welcoming OutsideIn and hosting Surgery day. Great day meeting new artists and being surrounded by lovely work and people! " Hannah, OutsideIn, Chichester
"Best gallery and exhibition we've visited in Cornwall. Work that really communicates. Thanks" Jo and Adam, Exmouth
"I had no idea anything like this existed here. Lovely to have found it." Gill
"The best gallery in Penzance. So nice to offer the chance to artists whose work never gets shown to the wider public." Rosie
Here are just some of the REWARDS on offer for your
pledges:
About Redwing
We are a Community Interest Company, completely run by volunteers since our foundation in 2011.
Volunteers range from younger members of the community to retired people in their eighties.
Redwing believes that creativity brings positive change in people's lives.
Creativity makes people feel happier, more confident, have higher self esteem, and feel better connected.
Redwing's inclusive ambiance enables a wide cross section of people to connect and share experience, giving people a chance see things differently and to better understand others.
Please help us secure our future with a long-term, truly inclusive, arts and community space.
This project has been approved for funding through the Artists + The Crowd match funding. It has received a bridge of 25% towards its fundraising target from Arts Council England.
It has also been approved by Santander.