An email can always be sent.
The trouble with announcing closures more than a week in advance is that (I couldn't believe this to be the case, but I have now seen it) people hear "venue not open blah blah blah" and then forget the date. Come the next week, they can't remember when the venue was to be closed so take that week and the following three off - just in case. Numbers drop, and the people who do turn up have a crap time. Keeping it to one week's notice ("Venue closed next week!") avoids this confusion amongst regular attenders, at the expense of annoying the very few people who weren't there the previous week and didn't bother to check any time within that fortnight for possible closures.
Moral: always check the website. If it's not on the website, then moan at the organiser.
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