at last we’re allowed to tell you… we’ve been keeping quiet about coastival - a new 3-day arts festival taking place in scarborough in 2009.
the festival which takes place in the otherwise sleepy month of february pulls together organisers from many of the yorkshire coast’s main festivals including beached, acoustic gathering, the jazz festival and it will be the new home of the festival of light. festival strands include dance, theatre, spoken word, visual arts, music, film, comedy and a full children’s and youth programme. events will take place across venues in scarborough. you can see it as a taster for the rest of the year’s festivals or as a new rich mix of the very best art and culture yorkshire has to offer.
we have been commissioned to develop a visual identity for the festival, a website and work on ideas for a promotional campaign over summer 2008. we also came up with the name ‘coastival’. the signs we’ve been teasing you with are the start of the publicity campaign [bringing yorkshire to the seaside], photos below are from yesterday’s launch and photocall with the yorkshire post [on page 8 of today’s edition] and scarborough evening news [their story here]. photo above is of mezzzo-soprano victoria wright helping launch the festival.
you can catch me talking about our plans to tour yorkshire with an opera singer on yorkshire coast radio today and you may have heard festival organiser wendy clews of create on radio york yesterday. more about the summer tour as the plans firm up…
in the meantime put the dates in your diary: coastival - february 17-19 2009.
conversation with stuart cameron, new director of scarborough-based crescent arts. crescent have long been a catalyst for art and culture in scarborough providing studio space and hosting exhibitions - their next challenge will be running the gallery in woodend creative workspace. come along for a sneak preview at what they might be planning and to meet the man that will be guiding them on the journey. 6pm upstairs at the merchant, eastborough.
james and i were at the literature festival launch on wednesday and really appreciated the enthusiastic comments on the logo and brochure that people made. it’s really rewarding when folks who have no need to say anything make the effort to say they like our work.
events continue today through to sunday. scarborough evening news have put together a collection of ‘literary links’ for the yorkshire coast which will be of interest to book lovers and local residents alike. view them and other literature festival news here.
the new creative coast flyers are hitting doormats this week. particularly exciting is that on the 23rd we’re having a whitby launch for the network to see if there’s critical mass and enthusiasm for regular events there as well as in scarborough. the focus of the launch events will be to see if whitby area creatives would value event close to home and what kind of events they might want.
the new flyers are double-sided to show events for the two towns. we’ve scheduled events up till the summer break on consecutive dates so that scarborough folks can pop up the coast and do a bit of networking if they so fancy. also in a change to the advertised date and so we don’t clash with the literature festival launch, the next scarborough event with be on the 30th april and not this wednesday as previously advertised.
april issue of scarborough’s future with a centrespread report on digital scarborough 08. you can see the original promo literature designs here.
some congratulations are due. largely to darrell at science city york for taking the ‘digital scarborough‘ idea and running with it in 2008. and to the posse of local web developers, designers and photographers who produced the following two community/charity websites in a day with joomla! co-founder brian teeman at the ds08 code-a-thon:
www.scarboroughhomeless.org.uk
www.royalalbertpark.co.uk
you can read an article here about the code-a-thon. and you can view pics of wednesday, friday (upload nightclub event) and saturdays activities on facebook [if you’re a facebook-er]. look out for a review and pics of ds08 in the centrespread of this month’s renaissance news - out soon.
pic above - ds08 goodie bags featuring t-shirt, CD’s from upload performers and some copies of ‘felt.
it’s fun seeing your designs applied to different media - we’ve had logos cast in bronze, etched in glass and projected onto cathedral walls, but never before turned into a cake. these are photos from last night’s creative coast birthday party. cake by icing maestro anthony and posse at imaginative icing who did an amazing bit of icing-typography reproducing the creative coast logo. is this the first ever use of franklin gothic book on a cake?
then we all got to have a go…
