The Newcastle City Council’s Sustainability Review has recommended to close the Loft Youth Venue, sell the building and all the assets.
For years The Loft has been the centre of Newcastle’s all-ages music scene: playing host to many bands, Indent workshops, allowing young people to get into a recording studio and providing many other positive art-based opportunities for young people in the area.
If it closes there will be no more all ages gig space, no more arts programs, no more radio program, no more recording studio, no more aerosol art workshops, no more beats and rhymes workshops, no more free art activities, no more inzine, no more youth art exhibition space, no more school holiday activities, no more computer space for young people to use, no more youth venue…
For many years The Loft Youth Music Team has been an active Indent team, gaining funding from us and staging countless gigs in the venue. Many young bands have cut their teeth in that room, playing largely to audiences of their friends. Indent has run countless workshops, brought performers to the venue and professional producers to the studio and through this has gained an understanding of just how integral The Loft is to the continued vibrancy of the Newcastle all-ages scene.
The decision to close The Loft will be made at a Newcastle City Council meeting in June. If you do not want this to happen then get involved to Save the Loft! It is your venue, you shouldn’t have to fight to keep it open, but you’re going to have to. So lets step it up so we can make a change, and who knows… we could even make history.
If you have something to say about saving The Loft, leave a comment!
Save The Loft
Why would you get rid of an iconic AA venue? Unless they have a proposed replacement , this is local council bullsh**
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LONG LIVE THE LOFT~
The council have zero reason to close this place besides they ran out of money, the loft produces a near zero crime rate, completley below even the safest pubs, is the only Youth Venue in the middle of town, and is pretty musch the only place AA gigs are held in newcastle (except for secret empire). Its ridiculos to close the loft, i encourage everyone who reads this to go to http://www.myspace.com/savethelofttakeii its doing wonderfull things
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Yo last day to submit comments to Councillors. Drop a line here and tell people your frustration!
http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/in_council/management_plan/feedback_form3
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