The Nevada Sagebrush

The Holland Project planned rock shows, double-Dutch competitions and silk-screen workshops, but for the last few months Holland heads have gone without a place to call home.The Holland Project is a youth center group that organizes music shows, activities, workshops and art shows. The project found new digs at 30 Cheney St., across Maytan Music Center. Last year the project was forced to leave its Keystone Avenue location after a noise dispute and fire code violations. Curtis said it was hard to keep the community going after it lost the project central headquarters.

“It was really hard to keep stuff happening,” Brittany Curtis said, director of The Holland Project. “It’s nice to have ownership of our own space.”

Although The Holland Project has found a place to call home, Curtis said the Cheney Street location is only temporary, until they find another warehouse where they can put on shows. She said she doesn’t know how long it will take the project to find another warehouse since it is hard for the project to find a place that is zoned so they will not bother any neighbors and is up to fire code.

The Project moved into its new space at the beginning of the month, but had to cancel it grand opening on Jan. 4 due to snowstorms. She said they will hold another grand opening another time. Curtis said the project heard about the locations from the owner of the Grey Space art gallery next door to them.

Although the space isn’t big enough to host any huge rock shows, which is the main focus of The Holland Project, it is big enough to house the projects library, a few couches, benches, chairs, and artwork.

“I like the clean white walls,” said Brett Rodela, a 24-year-old geography major and self described Holland cheerleader. “It has a good atmosphere and a good place to hang out.”

Curtis said the headquarters will be open everyday from noon to 6 p.m. She said anyone could come to read, do homework, hang out or participate in the art show and workshops the project is planning, like the zine workshop held Saturday and events like a showing of punk rock documentary “American Hardcore” Sunday.

The most important thing about the new building is that now people have a physical place to tie to the Holland Project, said Van Pham, a 22-year-old journalism and French dual major.

“It’s a really big deal for us to get our faces out there and show that we are operating,” Pham said. “We definitely try to keep people aware of what we are doing.”