The Cube is a volunteer-run mixed-arts-cinema space in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol, UK. Opening in 1998 in King's Square, at the site of the former Arts Cinema (the first of the British Film Institute's Regional Film Theatres), the Cube has generated and held a diverse range of events, people, and materials during its life. Since June 2015, the Cube has been involved in a collaborative contemporary archaeology project that has brought together volunteers and archaeologists to learn archaeological and heritage interpretation methods in order to investigate the human and other-than-human pasts, presents, and futures of this place. The project emerged in response to the Cube's purchase of its building and developing plans to reconfigure the interior spaces. The renovation is driven in part by regulatory pressures around health and safety, access issues, and a desire to open up the Cube more to its communities as a making and meeting space. However, the planned renovations have generated anxieties about loss: of character, of patina, of an undefined magic of place that generates the specific sense of community that Cube volunteers feel.