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Hey all....firstly we want to say an absolutely mammoth THANKS to everyone who has helped us create an appropriately big hullabaloo after we discovered that ALL of our hard, hard work on the BURGER KING mural had been whitewashed overnight. We're all completely gutted - as are all of the people and kids who came along on freezing cold winter days to help us paint. Please spool down to read our press release in the post below and check out the links and uploads from the brilliant local journalists who are helping us get our message across.
The more than everyone can do to let BK and their landlords know just how out of order their actions are the better and here's what we suggest:
- · Go onto our facebook and show your support by joining our My A’th Kar Newquay group
- · Make comments about what you think (without any swearing please) on the relevant pages
- · Go to the Burger King UK facebook, join and comment (again without swearing please)
- · Get involved with future My A’th Kar Newquay campaigns and do all you can to support our team.
And here's what you can do straight away. Undettered by this week's whitewash nightmare, we're all set to transform the horrid old bus station site. And we need YOU!!
We have just received the positive news that Newquay Junior Academy in Edgcumbe Avenue will donate its hall for our half term ‘Challenge Newquay’ painting mission. We recently announced that after an ongoing process, we had secured one of the town’s most hated sites – the dirty and dragged down old bus station. Thanks to the offer of a ‘home’ for the week, every day from Monday 21st February until Sunday 27th February you will see lead artist Mat McIvor and our MAKN team hard at work in the Newquay Junior hall.
And we're all challenging everyone in the community – kids and adults alike - to join us and help get this major mural work nailed in just a week. It’s a huge site with 87 panels and it needs all hands on paintbrushes to make it all happen and transform this dull, and much maligned, area of the town. This week’s news about Burger King UK’s appalling whitewashing of the first mural means that we really need everyone’s help to keep us all upbeat and on track!
So we're inviting you all to get involved on each of the days at the Edgcumbe Avenue site between 10am and 5pm daily. Please come with an old shirt or some sort of a cover to keep you celan from the paint and bring a snack and a drink. Also if you;re under twelve, you will need to be accompanied by an adult but if there's a good few of you then one adult will do (you can share :-)) To manage numbers, it would be appreciated if you could please text or email your plans for attendance to Rhona Gardiner on 07740 410052 or rhona@excessenergycomms.com. SEE YOU THERE!
We'd also like to take this chance to give a big, grateful shout out David Chadwick, Chris Cooper-Young and Phil Mason of Cornwall Council, local fencing and hoarding company I-Site - Innovative Site Solutions based in Hayle, and Sarah Pym of the Real Ideas Organisation for all of their help in securing this exciting bus station canvas for our work. To see more news of the project and take part in a key evaluation questionnaire about the value of the project please see below.
Thank you from the My A’th Kar Newquay.
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