Hello blog-lovers, me again with some more news from the project.
First, I must apologise, there's been a lot going on and we've been slack at telling you about it here. In particular, a big hello to everyone who came to see us at the Scout Jamboree and The Thames festival (do I sound like a cheesy DJ there? Sorry, I'll try to control that). Everyone from the project in the Face Your Elephant tent at these events learned a lot from you, not least the power of free stuff (that's right, I'm talking to you Scouts, you walk around casually but as soon as someone shows you a "free hugs" sign you're claiming them left, right and centre). Another exciting edition to our Face Your Elephant freebies was The Badge, taking over where the lovely tattoos left off, although I imagine it was being worn in slightly less imaginative places (if I'm wrong, send us your photos and we'll see if we can get some - clean ones - on the website). But with winter drawing in, we've packed up our marquees for the last time, and put our elephants, Winston and Fiona, out to graze in pastures new.
So, with that out of the way what else has been happening? Well, last weekend we had our first Steering Committee meeting since any of our events started, and as you can imagine there was a lot to discuss. We also said goodbye to Julie, our wonderful Project Co-ordinator, and welcomed Margaret as our new Project Manager and Kirsti in her re-jigged role as Programme Manager; good luck to all of them in their respective new roles. While it was really sad to say goodbye to Julie, her leaving served as just the thing to shake up the work we're doing and give us a new, no-holds barred approach to our final events. It's really scary to think that in a few months all this will be over, there's a lot of work to be done before then, but I'm positive there's even more fun to be had.
So we've been talking about what we'd like to do and see for these, but what do you want? The events we have left are Club Nights and C-Cast, discussion these is open on the forum, so if you have any ideas post them there and we'll see if we can incorporate them.
Finally, it would be rude of me not to mention the Film Festival. This Friday and Saturday is the Co-op Young Film Maker's Festival, and guess who's got a screen there: C-Change! Not only will we be showing films made by young people for young people, but we'll have a Diary Room for people to come and give us their views (feel free to have a Nikki-style rant, that'll make great viewing), and many of our little treasures from Face your Elephant. It promises to be a great couple of days.
There's a lot more to say, but that's enough from me for now, someone else should be filling you in on more stuff in the next few days. If you've attended any of our events over the summer why not send us in any pictures or what you thought and we'll see if we can get it up somewhere on the website for you.
