the lead-up to the ‘your town, your future’ event seemed a bit of a headlong rush, not least ‘cos i was on holiday the week before and there’s always a sense of gathering momentum as you make plans for being absent for a week, ideally plans that don’t involve having to touch a computer whilst on holiday (which i happily achieved). add to this pressing print deadlines and it makes a busy pre-holiday couple of weeks.

working to the brief for the publicity material, the emphasis was on the drama performance and marketplace when in fact there turned out to be lots more happening too - stuff we’d have dearly loved to promote if only we’d known about it. the turn out to the event was perceived to be a success with over 800 people attending but i bet we could have got a few more down had we had chance to promote the cultural entertainment on offer.

there were some grumblings that the drama performance wasn’t a local production - that strikes me as a very fair complaint when you consider the huge wealth of experience we have in the town in both playwrights and performers. fortunately there was some great local stuff happening on the beach thanks to create who had curated an afternoon of good things including music, poetry performance and some wonderful hit-and-run (at least that’s what i call it) performance from rounders - the stephen joseph youth theatre. we were looking for a good photo of the banners we designed and my favourite has to be this [top of page] of some strange alien creatures gathered in front of a banner on the harbourside.

above is a sand drawing taking form on the beach on the saturday, coordinated by beam [little known fact: scarborough was previously a holder of the world record for the world’s largest sand painting, it was eclipsed in june of this year] and below is james’s much acclaimed nighttime photo of the harbour, here being used as a backgdrop to the renaissance friends stand. all photos from the forthcoming issue of renaissance news.