This from Babble Babble Babble:
I don’t know how long they will stay up - presumably it’s only for the festival, which is perhaps a bit of a shame becasue I like the idea of making some quite impersonal aspects of the city more personable. It’s quite profound and deeply spiritual in the context of our inter-connectedness with one another and understanding of the importance of place.
Out and about on Wednesday I saw a woman photographing No. 13. She turned out to be Jane Dallway, the woman behind Brighton Bloggers. Since then she has set up this excellent 41 Places site to try and track down all 41.
There’s a flickr site where 41 place hunters are finding/not finding sites. All results shared.
41 Places: 41 Stories is now on sale here. It’s also available at the following story locations:
06 Are we the wonderland she is thinking about? Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Shop
11 I could have sworn I brought my bag in. Sporting Colours, Gloucester Street
23 … the sheer nothingy-ness of her dad. Borders Books & Music, Churchill Square
30 Some days he goes bacon-and-egging. Castor & Pollux, King’s Road Arches, The Seafront
39 They all knew it would be their last night together. Aruna’s News, Gardner Street
Joshua at The Earth & Stars in Windsor Street - the site of story number No 29 That was the first time he ever slept rough - has been telling customers he’ll buy a drink for anyone who comes there with photographic proof they’ve visited all 41 sites.
Thanks to Adrian for pointing out that the Front Row piece can be heard here.
The report starts about 18 minutes in.
The phone box on Brighton seafront - 05 They Reach Out And Kiss - has now been fully installed. When Standard 8 turned up to install the vinyl last week they found the box had been vandalised. BT Payphones kindly marked the job as an emergency and replaced the glass at the weekend.
You can see a photo of the new installation on the flickr group 41 Places.
Sadly the installation in Duke Street - 40 Rejoining real life was bewildering - was vandalised on Friday night and two of the panels are now missing. We’re seeing if we can afford replacements.
41 Places is featured on Front Row, BBC R4 at 7.15pm today; it’s also on BBC South News
Postcards from the edge Laura Barnett There are dozens of events in theatre, music, dance, books and performance art hitting the south coast over the next three weeks for the 41st Brighton festival. Here’s an at-a-glance guide to the eight best events to suit your mood: If you fancy doing some detective work . . . 41 Places, May 5-27, various locations; www.41places.org Expect the unexpected across Brighton city centre with this literary treasure hunt, for which writer William Shaw has collected 41 true stories told to him over a seven-month period, created a series of installations and scattered them across the city. Come upon them by chance, or find all 41 by picking up an official map from the festival ticket office. |
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