on the edge
if you’re not at creative coast tonight, you could do a lot worse that check out the first of a new on the edge series at the university of hull scarborough campus. i have divided loyalties tonight as on the edge presents barrowcliiffe stories – an interactive film by local filmmaker claudia nye. claudia’s work has been screened on the bbc & channel 4 and we screened her film captian pedro and the three wishes at digital scarborough last year. we designed the promotional material and packaging for the film, plus the on the edge flyer [above and below - printed with orange and metallic silver ink] is an electric angel design too. so apologies to claudia and jo at the uni that we’ll be in the merchant with creative coast tonight.
a quick reflection on captain pedro – it followed the progress of a family leaving cuba on a home-made raft to reach the promised land of the usa. whether they found it to be filled with milk and honey is left for the viewer to decide. it was an absorbing and thought-provoking film and so i’m particularly miffed it’s the second time i haven’t been able to get to a public screening of barrowcliffe stories. inspired by augusto boal‘s theatre of the oppressed, the film was made with young people from scarborough’s barrowcliffe estate and the audience get to choose how the film progresses.
something i’ve heard mentioned a few times in the past months has been that many children and young people living on scarborough’s estates have never seen the sea. that’s a big challenge to scarborough’s renaissance initiative and certainly a contrast to the rather comfortable creatives-by-the-sea image we blogged about yesterday. for tonight at least, ‘on the edge’ has a new resonance.
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