Solace has secured a new venue in Alphington for all our activities, office and resources. We shifted in before Christmas 2010 and have been fitting out ever since. We secured a commercial lease of a shop-front and dwelling in prominent Heidelberg Rd Alphington.
The new venue will help us grow the organization and better serve all our fantastic supporters and punters. Having a single place for everything is going to save heaps of time by getting rid of setting up, travel, packing up. We'll be more innovative too: both because we have the time and because we will have to adapt to a typical shop-front space. The lessons we learn about commercial leasing and using this type of building will be made available to other Christian communities: sharing the benefit around.
Sunday Stuff and Tuesday Stuff have made the move already. Both congregations are settling in well and enjoying the new space. Rebekah Pryor is our first artist-in-residence and her exhibition, 'homecoming' has launched and proven very popular already. A new group are meeting on Monday nights to brew a beer for Lent and read through the lectionary readings together. These are good signs that the venue works for us.
We're currently knocking down a wall and getting air-conditioning sorted, so the place will be even more comfortable and useful in the very short term. We've got some of our resources set up in our new library, so if you would like to innovate in your own community, why don't you come over and we'll share some lessons we've learnt?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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