@elsewheremarg8 needs our help. Please read the message below from them and donate (if you can) via the linktree in my bio. . To friends and supporters of Elsewhere, it brings us deep and profound sadness to be writing this here; But our beloved grassroots music venue and community arts space is currently facing a severe threat of permanent closure following successive months of diminishing advance ticket and bar sales since April. These tenuous circumstances for our culture and livelihoods have arisen and are owing to what has been witnessed as a downturn in event attendances; a result of the cost of living crisis that has impacted everybody’s spending decisions as we all very understandably choose between buying that gig ticket, record or drink at the bar or keeping on top of our electricity bills - ours have tripled since the beginning of April of this year! Our last night of trading, whilst we spend the next few weeks campaigning and fighting to save our venue, will be this Saturday 8th October. We would like to invite everybody, old friends and new friends of the venue alike to meet us outside of the venue at 7:00pm for a supporters photo; a snapshot of the community in all of its might and resilience that will spark us off as we set about trying to save Elsewhere and then building it a further, sustainable future. We’ll be launching a Crowdfunder this Saturday and we’d urge as many people as possible to attend the kick off party. Bring friends and family and share as widely as possible amongst your networks. Thank you. . #saveelsewhere #margate #grassrootsmusicvenue #musicvenuestrust #musicvenuesalliance