Elemental North West - The Event
Verena Cornwall from the Circus Development Agency was our chair for the day, firstly introducing the unfortunate news André Pérusse our keynote speaker had missed his flight due to a Montreal road incident.
Fortunately, Liz Pugh and John Wassell (Co-Founders & Co-producers) from Walk the Plank stepped in to talk about their work for the closing ceremony of Manchester’s Commonwealth Games.
Starting with a little context from London 2012 Creative Programmer for the North West, Debbi Lander, she talked about the three areas that were her priority:
Moving on to talk a little about the curating and commissioning of the ‘We Play’ initiative and the ‘Inspire’ programme for smaller scale projects.
Following Debbi, Julie Tait (Director of Kendal Arts International) talked the work her company are involved with and they work on the premise of partnership and sustainability with around 15 – 20 core partners.
Julie talked about the pilot projects they have worked on and a little more about Mintfest, leading us into her presentation about Lakes Alive – moving from “small scale to large scale in one big step”.
Liz Pugh and John Wassell, then stepped in to talk about the work of Walk the Plank, and showing a piece of video to illustrate their closing ceremony work and with the limited timescale of making:
Something to be truly in awe of…It helped their organisation step up to the next level, strengthen core staff ready for the next large projects – Liverpool 08 opening and currently working with Kinetika on ‘Imagination: Our Nation’
After a short break, Marta Almirall Elizalde arrived with her translator and talked about her work as an Artistic Director and her work as Director of Festivals for Barcelona City Council. She spoke about the lessons to be learned from Barcelona Olympics and what happens after large scale sporting ceremonies.
The presentations of the days speakers will be online very shortly, to read all about elemental in the North West, please click here.
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June 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
[...] Pugh and John Wassell from Walk the Plank were the keynote speakers at the ‘elemental’ event in the North West. They talked about their experience in relation to the region’s [...]