The End : Where's Wooly?

And so all good things come to an end .... "Where's Wooly? " is now over, having celebrated the first week of the Lunar New Year - Wooly, the sheep in eight different locations in Newcastle East.

Thanks to all the participants who so graciously lent Wooly a space in a prominent spot in their shops, galleries and studios.

Day 8, the last day, Wooly very appropriately spent at Wolfe Studios Building, Hunter Street Mall. Wofe Studios is a hub of creative activity, home to artists working in various media . It is one of the projects of Renew Newcastle .
Renew Newcastle is a not for profit company limited by guarantee. Renew Newcastle has been established to find short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle’s CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment. Renew Newcastle aims to find artists, cultural projects and community groups to use and maintain these buildings until they become commercially viable or are redeveloped. Renew Newcastle is not set up to manage long term uses, own properties or permanently develop sites but to generate activity in buildings until that future long term activity happens. Renew Newcastle was founded to help solve the problem of Newcastle’s empty CBD. While the long term prospects for the redevelopment of Newcastle’s CBD are good, in the meantime many sites are boarded up, falling apart, vandalised or decaying because they are is no short term for use them and no one taking responsibility for them. Renew Newcastle has been set up to clean up these buildings and get the city active and used again - See more at: http://renewnewcastle.org

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