Rumour Mill

If you have read the local paper, the Star News, you may have seen mention that the City of Elk River through the Housing Redevelopment Authority (HRA) has agreed to rent us a City owned retail space in downtown Elk River. It is true. The HRA has agreed to lease us a space downtown.
There are some details that need to be ironed out, but we hope that all will work out so that we can take occupancy early in 2008.
What will this mean for the Arts Alliance? Lots, we hope. A opportunity to showcase Arts Alliance artist members on a rotating basis; this space should allow us to host artist receptions, artist talks, artist workshops.
It should also allow us to develop daytime programming for Seniors; after school programming for high school aged youth, and Saturday programming for families.
We envision poetry readings, knitting circles, lectures by visiting designers, artists, architects, city planners (what's that?) and much more.
Stay tuned for more info.

We can't do any of this of course without community input and support. If you ever wanted to see the arts have a greater place in community life, this is the time to step up: volunteer your time, your talent, or dig deep as we will be asking for your help as we move forward.

In the meantime, don't forget to enter the ticket giveaway for Joe Chvala announced in an earlier entry.