More about the Globe

A flyer was pushed through my door when I got home this evening, from the new people at the Globe.
I'm not going to quote the whole thing, as it's an A4 sheet, but here are a few pertinent bits:
"We are in the early stages of a project to develop the Globe gallery. The aim of the project is to bring a variety of arts to Hay and provide a venue for the use of the community."

Further down, it says:
"We were advised when making the license application to put the longest hours that could ever apply to an event in the gallery space. These are however no indication of the hours we normally expect to be open."

and finally:
"...[events] will very much depend on your participation...."

Now this would be a very good advert for what the new people want to do with the Globe, if it had been sent out before the flyer about the public meeting to protest about the long licensing hours. As matters stand now, even if they are being honest about not intending to open into the early hours regularly, no-one will believe them, because this flyer will just be seen as a knee-jerk response to the opposition to the licensing application.
And if they really wanted the participation of the local community, they would have made their plans known well in advance, rather than the news leaking out quietly, as actually happened.
It's probably obvious that I'm quite sceptical about their plans, simply because of the way they have gone about their PR.

The person to contact with queries, by the way, is Mandy Houghton, on mandy-houghton@hotmail.co.uk