Our one-day deep clean at Black Sheep ended up turning into a week’s worth of projects for a lot of hard working and dedicated volunteers.  A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has helped us this past week, especially Tim and George.  Without all of your help nothing would have ever gotten done.

To those of you who have not seen Black Sheep’s new look, we have some pictures.  We also have a list of what all was done during the deep clean.

More pictures of the deep clean can be seen in our Black Sheep flickr album.

• The drop ceiling in the back of the main room was removed, opening up a lot of ceiling space.
• Peeling paint was scraped from the ceiling and many cobwebs were cleared.
• Wooden support beams were strengthened and some were removed.
• The top ledge at the front of the main room was cleaned out.
• Lights were thoroughly cleaned.
• Temporary lights were set up highlighting the ceiling.
• A bathroom doorknob was installed.
• The backdoor was fixed.
• The “merch” wall in the back room was scraped, painted, and primed.
• We have a cork board set up in the back of the main room for the Black Sheep “store”.
• A new toilet seat was installed.

A lot was done, but by no means are we done improving our space.  We will continue to take on new projects and do what we can with the tools and resources we have.  The stage is one of many projects we would like to complete later on.  If you would like to donate your time to work on projects inside Black Sheep you can get ahold of Kevin or email blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com and we will find a good time for you to come in and work.  If you have any ideas for new projects we could take on in or outside of our interior space then you should come to our next roundtable meeting, which is Sunday, September 16th at 3:00.

From Kevin:

Hey everybody!  Things are getting exciting around the Black Sheep this fall!  We  are initiating some much needed projects to improve our humble little abode.  One of the major undertakings we are doing is building a new and better stage!  We are determined to do something awesome and we need your help.  Everything we ever had was built by our community and this is no exception.  So if you are down to see the Sheep get cooler stuff and have some rad shows, please help us by contributing to our stage fund.  We need approximately 400 dollars to make it happen, and since we operate by little to nothing of a budget we greatly appreciate any contribution.  I am excited about the future of Black Sheep and I hope you are too.  Thank you for caring and thinking about us. 

The times and seasons are changing.
New music appears.
A revolution is happening

Much Love,
Kevin

The Fall is upon us and many great things are coming. We are doing some renovations to our space and are planning our new stage. We have plans to put in better stage lighting, and redo all of our sound. To make these things possible, we need YOU. Your support of Black Sheep is becoming increasingly important during this Revolution Autumn.

The first expensive part of these changes is the construction of the new stage. To help fund that, we set up a donation spot on our Big Cartel. Please feel free to donate:

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We will also have a special donation box set up at Black Sheep for those of you interested in donating.  Or you can hand donations directly to Kevin.  Together we can get this new stage built!

Surprise!  After all these years we now have a doorknob for our bathroom door!

The “Deep Clean” yesterday went a little bit deeper then we had initially planned.  Those of us there did get pretty ambitious and took on some big projects that will benefit us greatly in the long run.  For now though, Black Sheep is somewhat under construction.  Those of you planning on going to the show Saturday night will probably notice a few changes.  Since we are not completely finished with what we are doing, we will leave all that has been done a surprise until later this weekend.