best laid plans and all that.

our journey to the trail in july was set to have had a major step forward today and we've been thwarted by snow.... would you adam and eve it.

we have lots to do still and today was going to start to answer some of the many questions that lay before us.

there were encouraging noises yesterday at the belper cluster group meeting. there really is a large groundswell of activity in and around belper. at times yesterday just how much seemed to be a bit of a problem as there were struggles in how to communicate about it all.  the thing is that there is so much on offer that the residents of belper will be able to experience some of it and hear about the rest.  it's very impressive and those working to make it all happen must be feeling very proud of their activities.

for those of you who have submitted work to the trail, we're asking the relevent questions to the locations and businesses that we hope will be able to display the works for us.  today's snow is a bit of a temporary set back and we will pick up the journey again soon.

thank you to all of you

 who have submitted your particular favourite to this year's trail.



we (corridor arts) now embark on another phase, well several phases before we finally arrive at our journey of favourites in july.




alongside the trail we've (as a group) also expressed our interest in being involved in the belper well dressings again this year.






at a personal level, i'm now adjusting to the shift from not knowing who will submit to who has and all that follows.  we'll be in touch with everyone who has submitted when we have a little more to say than thank you for your submission.  i know if i had submitted that i would be wanting to know if i'm in the trail and where my work will be shown.  being on the inside of the process i know that to get to those two things there's a bit of discussing to do and leg work to be done. 

at some level we're all now on the same journey to the trail, experiencing similar things.  this part of the journey is a little bit up hill for us (corridor arts) so i can say at this time that we might be appearing to be slow but we are putting in the effort to get from the purple hedge to.....

the journey of favourites

#belperarttrail artist submission deadline 10th march

this post is a reminder, a nudge, a go on, a don't worry: the deadline is sunday, there's still time to complete your journey.










the bevvy of submissions yesterday reminded me that the deadline is this sunday.  we've come a long way since october when the journey began and with the call out period coming to a close it reminds me of the next stage of the trail for us, the preparing and pairing of the chosen works with the retail outlets that want to take part.

i'm not sure if i've spoken about the words that accompany each work in the trail this year.  my feeling is that we'll make those available in the first incident within the downloadable guide. in the past years these words were held on the blog before the event.  with the works in this year's trail being very much closer to those who made them, i feel it would be interesting to keep the words closer to the viewer.  handling the words this way also helps to maintain the idea of the trail being a journey of discovery for the viewer as much as it was for those who submitted.

and that leads me to think about the viewers and their feedback.  i wonder if we need a method of feeding back.  utilising the communication streams already open to us we have a twitter account and a facebook profile on which to add a comment.  there's also leaving a comment here on the blog and there's also sending a email.  for me written feedback is better than verbal, simply because my dyslexic condition means that i struggle to retain those little comments in the moment of wanting to remember them.  the importance of receiving feedback is two fold. to hear what those exhibiting and those viewing get out of the experience and also to demonstrate in the future that we've had a potential impact on people's lives by staging the art trail.  the second point becomes relevant if we attempt bigger projects that require funding.  the collected feedback helps to show the funders that we have experience in producing and hearing what is said about what we do.

so for those of your in the final stages of your journey of favourites i wish you well in completing that and look forward to receiving your submissions for we shall stage ... this summer ....

a journey of favourites

how to submit can be found on the corridor arts website call out page >>>>>> http://www.corridor-arts.org.uk/abcd/call-outs/