Final Run

Here is footage of our final run from our interactive camera.

http://youtu.be/qB8UZUb3hEc

Final Version of the Quiz

Here are the quiz sheets we which will be available as part of the event tomorrow at 73 High Street Runcorn.

Final test

The count down begins

Runcorn pics facebook link

Wonderful collection of Runcorn pics pooled by local residents with the help of Maggie from People making Theatre.


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13137526781&v=wall

PMT

Great Theatre company working in Runcorn, don't be put off by the name they are not really going to wring your neck for chewing too loud. Links to their site and face book pages here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=249079316519&v=info

http://www.peoplemakingtheatre.com/Home_Page.html

The Fred Kearsley Memorial walk

The Fred Kearsley Memorial walk takes place every year to raise money for Runcorn Linnets Football club. One of our event stories features Fred and we found this link to the walk map. If you know anything else about him we are trying to find out the furthest place he walked to and how long it took. Also did he say " Well you can start now, I'm here" on walking into the ground and wave his scarf or his hat. We need the info by this Friday, so pretty short notice. You can post your info here or e mail Beth at bethbarlow@bethbarlow.com
http://www.mapmywalk.com/s/routes/view/walk-map/united-kingdom/runcorn/333663

Time and place for Saturday

Our Saturday event will start with a parade of ghostly characters from The Curiosity Book Shop at 1pm. We will then process along Regents Street, Church Street, and onto High Street. The main event will happen between 1.30-3.30pm at what used to be The Old Town Garage on the high Street. Come along whenever you like between these times.

Here you can have the chance to find a collection of ghostly character and see their stories via a live web cam. You can be in charge of operating the remote controlled web cam robot to find the characters waiting in the old garage. The films of the characters will be projected for everybody passing by to see. There will also be chance to discuss the past and future and activities to get involved in.

A sneeky peek at the Quizes for the event on the 16th July

These are the drafts at the moment so if there are any keen spelling or grammar mistake spotters out there let us know. Also if you can help us fill in a few of the blanks in our knowledge that would be great too. Either leave a comment below or e mail bethbarlow@bethbarlow.com

Saturday 16th July

Come into the Old town and find the ghosts of Runcorn's past hanging around in an empty shop. Its a secretish location although the marquee outside and bunting might give it away. It will be somewhere on the Runcorns "Golden Triangle", High Street, Church Street and Regent Street. Keep your eyes on the blog as we will tell you the times we will be there after meeting our ghosts on Sunday.

Dates For Your Dairy (sorry Diary)

We are going to be in the Old Town Garage Shop on the high street on the following dates if you want to pop on to say hello:
Wednesday 29th June
Monday 4th July
Wednesday 13th July

Name our robot

Can you think of a name for our robot? The robot will move around town and go into empty shops. its nosey and has a web cam on it which will show images to the rest of the world via its webcam. If you can post your idea as a comment below.

Having trouble posting e mail bethbarlow@bethbarlow.com

YMCA workshop

Sophie, Darren and Kristine from the YMCA joined us for the Saturday workshop. We were also joined by a passing gent called Paddy who set to work creating a scale model of the Runcorn bridge.

Comments

As part of the workshops on Friday and Saturday we were chatting to folks about what they think about Runcorn and this project. We wrote everything down in a random kind of way on these sheets. You should just about be able to read my writing.

Here are some of the results from our workshop with Victoria School. Brilliant

School workshop goes down a storm

The kids from Victoria came today to do the workshop and treasure hunt. It was chaotic but fantastic. Lots of talented kids both in terms of finding things, talking to people, voicing their opinions and making some whacky sculptures. Sculpture pictures still to come but here are a few of the workshop taken by one of the year 6 pupils.

Our new Garage Abode

We got hold of the Old Town Garage for a few days of workshops. Its fantastic inside.

Treasure Hunt

Tomorrow we try out our Runcorn treasure hunt with local school children from Victoria Infants school and on Saturday a group from the YMCA. They are also going to lend a hand at sculpture making in our new garage abode. The boxes will stay around the venues for others to find in the future and are all in places we feel are treasures of Runcorn. We can't tell you were just yet but watch this space and we will let you know about the treasures we have found.

Runcorn past, future hopes

A comment on Runcorn's past by a resident of Runcorn:

http://www.francisfrith.com/runcorn/memories/runcorn-at-its-best_78311/

Wonderful volunteers

Its fantastic luck to have found a number of volunteers who are all set to help us with our schools workshop on and YMCA group workshop. Paula and Jenny who are set to help us out are both artists themselves and you can find their work on these sites:
http://paula-weetman.blogspot.com
and
http://jenkenworthy22.blogspot.com/