Upfront Gallery News
27/01/2013
January at Upfront
After many hectic months things have begun to take shape. The 12th Upfront Cumbrian Artists Open Exhibition extends throughout the original gallery and the new entrance foyer gallery. The new space looks impressive and the encouraging comments from visitors make all of the hard work worthwhile. The new Puppet Theatre worked perfectly for the Christmas production and it will be even better when we do our first production designed for the new space. Concerts will be taking place in the theatre, so expect some exciting evenings when we will be able to retract some of the seating rake so that we can offer the option of candlelit tables. Below are a selection of images to try and
22/10/2012
Upfront Puppet Theatre Sponsors
We have to raise £20,000 of sponsor money to complete the Puppet Theatre build. A seat can be sponsored for £150 and a plank can be sponsored for £50. So far we have raised £6,000. We hope to achieve charitable status very soon which will mean all sponsor money can be gift aided. If you would like to make a donation towards the match funding required for the building of the new puppet theatre, please download and complete our sponsorship form and post it to us and we will contact you.
24/07/2012
July up-date of theatre build
All of the steel framework is finished. The floors and walls are going in and the roof should be going on in a couple of weeks.
19/06/2012
New Puppet Theatre update
Progress photos of the new theatre building. The size and potential of the new building can now be visualised more easily with the steel framework almost complete. The additional exhibition hanging space will be similar in size to the present Gallery, plus a 140 seat puppet theatre/performance space and puppet museum.....very exciting.
07/06/2012
Free WiFi at Upfront begins
Trying to get up to date with technology. We've finally gone live with free WiFi. Please ask a member of staff for our daily passcode.
