BLOG #2

So I’ve been working (unpaid volunteering via the JobCentre, so ‘working’) at the New Brighton Heritage Centre.

Heard of it? Didn’t think so.

Basically, the seafront near my home town was once the resort town to go to; we had the biggest outdoor swimming pool in Europe, had the biggest Tower in England (50 feet bigger than Blackpool, a-thank you) and we had a rich history of smugglers, wreckers, industry and general wonders. Note the past tense.

So I’ve been trying to come up with ideas to do (in the SUMMER, because right now it’s so cold my nipples have frostbite) to try and get some interest into the place, get some tourism-ish stuff going on. Which I will now brain-vomit upon you all.

• LIVING STATUE; we have a widely-despised statue down on the front of a Pierrot holding up a ‘Welcome To New Brighton’ sign, and a Pierrot would make an excellent living statue costume. It’s monochrome, so the make up would be a cinch (black and white, easy enough to get hold of), and the costume is baggy enough to allow me to breathe without being too obvious - I’m not exactly an expert at this, y’know. It would something for me to do in the summer, and all proceeds would go to the Heritage Centre.
• REN FAIRE; being rather close to Chester, with several local historical re-enactment societies (include Viking & Medieval), a brilliant history and adequate space (not to mention the nearby-ish theme park called Camelot) - I reckon this could well work, especially out on the Dips (large swaths of common land on the sea front, grassed and popular for picnics and kite flying)
• OPEN AIR THEATRE; knowing the amount of drama-y music-ish creative types that i do, I wouldn’t mind setting up some random open air things - anything from a monologue every other half hour, or trying to do Shakespeare plays in under 15 minutes (it’s possible, trust me). It would be something fun for drama-inclined folk and something to watch as the many randoms meander down the promenade.
• HUMAN CHESS; something I have always wanted to do. With the costumes and everything, with suitably goofy people to fill them (the public would be the ‘players’ I suppose, unless they expressed a determined interest in being a ‘piece’.) I rather want to play the White Knight (and convince my lovely wife-cum-best friend to play the Black Queen so that we may enact a delightful star-crossed romance, across the board)

I will attempt to cook up some more bright ideas in my boiling brain pan, but for now these are things to chew on. If anyone has any ideas, for fundraising or just raising awareness, do sling them my way.

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