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Hi Board, Staff, and Members of Bucketworks:

Many of this news is out of date and I have been remiss in collecting and sharing everything that makes this place magic for me with all of you, who are contributors and participants and friends of Bucketworks. But late news is better than none at all, and Tegan helped me realize today that you can’t all see what’s happening here unless we tell you what’s going on. I could write a book about all that you have done, with the help of 20 others spending 10 hours a day doing nothing but that, and we’d still miss some of the wonderful things to celebrate. We truly are making Milwaukee’s most unique and creative gathering place come to life together.

I know that this year is likely to be one of the most incredible years we’ve had since Bucketworks began on March 22, 2002. We’ve made it for 5 years and 2 days! Yet we’re facing some of the toughest challenges right now: we have to find a new home, we have to grow our staff, and we have to grow our leadership at the highest levels.

Milwaukee is an amazing and colorful city, and you are the reason, every day, I love living here. I’m proud to co-create our city with you, and to co-create our city’s most colorful and creative place: Bucketworks.

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Recent Celebrations:

• Rebekah and Duncan, members of the Global Sales and Solutions team at Manpower, co-created a training program in the Bucketworks Flow Room this week. They and their team are all Professional Members of Bucketworks and can use the facility anytime!
• Sharon Lerman did off-site work Friday in the Flow Room, and helped create proposals for Value Gathering experiences!
• James submitted proposals to Manpower and Harley Davidson to facilitate Event LiveCapture and a Value Gathering experience, totalling $15,000!
• Brian Miracle and Kyle Leipold sold coffee and lunch to various employees of Time Warner Cable this week, from across the street. None of them had ever been inside Bucketworks before!
• Tegan Dowling helped Bob Graf, founder of Growing R A Food, get the wiki concept. Bob is one of the first “self-taught” wiki experts who has actually gotten more people involved in wiki projects.
• The Fuel Milwaukee Creative Council is having its meeting at Bucketworks on April 16! Many new guests, and some may stay to enjoy Quasi Productions New York production performance preview!
• see calendar-The Milwaukee Highschool of the Arts is hosting its student fashion show at Bucketworks on ___DATE___
• The Board of Zoning Appeals has approved our occupancy permit for the second floor on ___DATE___
• see March2006 update from bucketworks.org - Bucketworks has re-opened the Hypnagogic Art Show for a second round, and is seeking artists to participate.
• 20070201-HelpMakeBucketworksShine-We? are hosting a second floor cleaning day on March 31, 2007. Please come to Bucketworks with your cleanin’ clothes on and help us make this place shine—starts at 9am!
• We have formed committees to help make serving on the Board of Directors simpler, more fun, and more effective. We are seeking board members to help out with our committees! Please contact us to find out how you can help make Milwaukee’s creative gathering place come alive!

Recent Challenges:

• New Land Enterprises gave us a proposal for renting the second floor from them for $7800 a month, +20% of utilities and taxes. We are attempting to negotiate, but it looks like Bucketworks needs to plan to relocate within the year.