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Monday 22 November 2010 |
We’re super delighted to let you know that Mat’s all ready to get super revving again and getting the My A’th Kar Newquay murals completed – BUT HE NEEDS YOUR HELP PLEASE!
Painting sessions with Mat McIvor will be happening at the wall at the side of Burger King on Station Approach on Wednesday 24th November from 3pm until 5pm and from 11am until 5pm on Saturday 27th November. PLEASE COME ALONG AND GIVE OF YOUR TIME. WRAP UP WARM!
We’re also urging you all to join Kasha’s campaign from last week and post up your pictures, film clips and words about the parts of Newquay you love and hate on the My A’th Kar Newquay Facebook (search for My A’th Kar Newquay on Facebook to find it) and to access the My A’th Kar blog at the link to the new blog. http://iloveyounewquay.blogspot.com/2010/11/our-newquay.html
Just to give you some updates:
In the last few weeks, the committed My A’th Kar Newquay crew have also been busy gathering inspiration for why they want to lobby for physical changes around the town. They’ve been out on the streets creating film excerpts and taking photos of the areas of the town they most love and those that they want to see transformed asap.
The project is also gathering momentum around the county with councillors, youth organisations and young people alike. One of the My A’th Kar Newquay team, Kasha Miller, recently gave a stunning presentation to over 100 people at the launch of the Cornish Young People’s Manifesto. She showed the gathered audience how Newquay is being perceived in the national media compared to how she sees the town she loves to live in. She also explained how she and her crew are keen to use their artwork to get other visiting young people to pay attention to their surroundings and to think about how they treat the street and how they behave. She received a resounding applause from the audience and was surrounded by people keen to know more after her presentation.
Sarah Pym of the Real Ideas Organisation, the lead organisation for the project, says, “My A’th Kar Newquay has taken on a life of its own and is being talked about in lots of different official circles as well as online. Kasha Miller gave a stunning presentation the other week and the guys have been out on the streets drumming up information and support about what people want to change around the town. Mat McIvor is keen to get the first stage of the Burger King mural completed asap and we’re really keen for people to come and pick up a brush and do their bit to change their town. Thanks to everyone involved as always!”
So come along on Wednesday or Saturday and please spread the word to all your mates, brothers, sisters, everyone you can think of so we can get a big posse going!
