WRTV recently caught up with Colin Oakley. He's one of the founders of the former office-space-turned-event-venue on East Raymond Street. Here, beauty lies within. When you step inside, you could easily make the mistake of assuming you’d stepped into Alice’s Wonderland.
The music and events venue is decorated from floor to ceiling with colorful and eccentric surprises, but nods to its roots still remain: Take, for instance, the stereotypical office ceiling tiles still in place.Oakley says over the years, people donated all sorts of items as décor like old sound equipment, a fake dragon and whale-themed art. There are no rules, and that’s entirely intentional.
That theme of acceptance and second chances carries through to other fronts. Back in 2016 when it first got started, Healer was known as “Health Net” as a dystopian nod to its original tenant.