enterprising britain – dressing the set
probably our last post on this – until the enterprising europe competition anyway…
i said in an earlier post that we needed to provide contrasts – we reinforced the message of old scarborough and renaissance scarborough in several ways on the judging day. we began in woodend with a revisited version of the visual presentation, this time with scarborough businessman peter wilkinson setting the scene from his experiences of living and working in the town. because this time we had a full day to show present day scarborough, we spent more time showing how bad scarborough had got before the renaissance process. it took a fair bit of digging around to find incriminating images for the presentation – people don’t generally take many photos when somewhere isn’t looking too good.
then i presented my story – how moving to scarborough has been great for us and how the creative industries here are vibrant and rapidly growing. so i got to speak in front of a wall of changing images of scarborough being a dynamic place.
we reinforced this contrast by lining the presentation room with banner stands – on one side black and white images of scarborough as was, on the other vibrant specially-commissioned photographs of scarborough today. when the judging team returned to woodend for a drink and chilled close to the day with some of the local surf community, the banners were also placed as a reminder of the transformation.
so there you have it. i gather there’s a nice glass trophy somewhere in the town hall but i can’t post a photo as we haven’t seen it yet – we will campaign to get it in the renaissance office window in the centre of town for ordinary folks to see. as far as i know, there hasn’t been an official thank you from the town hall which is a shame but as i did a fair bit of the contacting of people and asking if they would be open to meeting james murray-wells and the judging team, i would like to say a personal thank you to everyone who gave their time gladly and spoke enthusiastically and honestly about living and working in scarborough. they are all people we invited because of what they’re doing for the town. enterprising britain was won by ‘the renaissance partnership’ and these are the type of people who make it happen. thank you and well done!
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