Renovation is in full swing on all floors of the gallery. To create a welcoming environment for disabled guests the once gloomy basement entrance has been cleaned up, the walls painted white, and the floor in non-slip grey.


Volunteer Holly cleaning up the basement.

          

  jonathan unblocking ...

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Volunteers Maddy and Hannah coming up with ideas.

We have continued renovating the volunteer space. A blackboard has been added to the first floor giving volunteers a space to map out ideas. 
 

Volunteer Bex and her kitchen blackboards.

Circular blackboards were also painted in the volunteer kitchen should inspiration take us when we're on our lunch break!

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This week we began making over the first floor of our new gallery in Blandford Square. The space will be used as an area for volunteers to work on projects and catalogue past exhibitions. We began the room's 'new look' by putting together a montage of flyers and posters to create a visual link between the new gallery space and our previous Globe location.
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nähdä unta by Ben Jeans Houghton.  This is the full video as shown during our Story Telling installation in North Shields which ended on 27th February 2011.



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Thanks to everyone who came to our opening night.  It was great to see so many participants amongst the crowd!

Thanks to all the participants, the finished installation looks amazing.  We're streaming light and sound into Saville Street and Howard Street until 10pm every night until 27th February.



Images of the opening will be posted soon with more installation shots and Ben Jeans Houghton's video to follow when the show closes...
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