If you haven't heard already - the Kube art gallery is being forced to close at the end of January 2010. It is a purpose built, award winning art gallery in Poole, Dorset & houses an internationally significant collection of art.

The Kube is the only big visual arts space between Southampton and the Tate gallery in St Ives, Cornwall. It has employed hundreds of artists for workshops and performances, showcasing work of local, National and international artists of real significance.

It has a world-class education programme, and offers workshops and activities for everyone from toddlers, to workers, to residents, students, artists and community groups.

This year has been the Kube’s busiest year, with 4 times more people visiting the gallery than last year. Despite this Bournemouth & Poole College has decided to withdraw its funding.

The gallery has been described as a national asset of an international standard and the Arts council have expressed their bitter disappointment at its closure.

DON'T LET THIS PASS YOU BY - We can all do something:

Sign the Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/33348.html

Join the Facebook Group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=199890648226

Come on the March:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223144731378&index=1

Comments about the closure:

http://www.kubepoole.org.uk/commentary.aspx


Dorset Echo:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/4834691.Poole_s_Kube_closure_lamented_by_Arts_Council/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/4828552.Online_uprising_to_save_Poole_s_Kube_gallery/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/4790979.Arts_boss__Shape_up_and_keep_Kube_open/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/yousay/yourletters/4832763.Kube_route/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/yousay/yourletters/4812391.Can_lottery_cash_save_the_Kube_/

Sideshow looks like it shaping up nicely...

See here if you haven't read about it

I've been given the task of preparing the brochure... I was thinking as we're a bunch of creative people collaborating to make something creative, I thought that's what we should do for the brochure too.

So I need drawings. Black and white line drawings in fact. As the festival is called sideshow, the drawings should be a little freaky or weird .

It's a tight deadline and I need them now, now, now!

So get drawing and send me what you have to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or post them to our post box here:

2nd Birthday, PO Box 717, BOURNEMOUTH, BH4 0ED

(Note we can't return drawings - so send copies!)

PJ Harvey. Bridport Arts Centre. 12/03/09

First gig promoting her new album. 200 people there. Fantastic.

The lesson...It's worth signing up to mailing lists and being in the arts network! (thanks Rob 

Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies!

A few surprising things I've noticed around Bournemouth.

Maybe a change is coming? Anyway, it's a start...

hubworld is happening this weekend, click here for more information!

Construction has already started:

TECHNOLOGY!

For those of you not scared of technology ;-)

You can now post videos to the blog, like this:

all you need to do is write in the blog this:

[ youtube:insertyoutubeurlhere]

or

[ googlevideo:insertgoogleurlhere]

except where it says insertyoutubeurlhere replace that with a youtube url!

Something usually like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

Make sure it has no spaces in it as well!

Enjoy.

The 2nd Birthday team met tonight to discuss our constitution. I think it's testing everyone's constitution...