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Romeo and Juliet; Scarlet and Rhett; John and Yoko;
a virtual map of the town and voice recordings from participants
Homer and Marge. All great cultural partnerships. On
telling the stories behind the 540 main images.
the face of it, property developer Bride Hall and arts
200 guests from the business and arts communities of the South East
company Strange Cargo might seem more like The witnessed Bride Hall and their fellow winners, Hook Norton Brewery,
Odd Couple but as with all good relationships they
Latest Homes, BMW Group Plant Oxford, AS Fire & Rescue Equipment
understand what makes each other tick. Creating a
and GSK take Awards away. Dawn Todd from AXA-PPP Healthcare won
piece of art that has integrity, community ownership
The Arts & Business Business Person of the Year sponsored by The
Barcelo Oxford Hotel for her work with East Grinstead Museum. The
and promotes a newly-built shopping centre sounds
beautiful glass awards pieces were created by Farnham-based artist
like a match made in heaven.
Steven Whitehill. Steven is currently Artist in Residence and part-time
lecturer in design contexts and theory at the University College for the
This June, Bride Hall won the Arts & Business Creative Champion of Creative Arts at Farnham.
the Year Award sponsored by Advanced Media Associates for its
partnership with Strange Cargo. A prestigious honour presented to
Arts & Business, a national charitable organisation, exists to create new
the best out of all the businesses winning a category at The Arts &
and exciting connections between commerce and culture and the
Business South East Awards sponsored by, and held at, BMW Group
award ceremony was no exception, with the fabulous high-tech
Plant Oxford, the home of MINI. Business First was the media partner
surroundings of BMW Group Plant Oxford being treated to the soaring
for this year’s glittering awards ceremony, which celebrated the
vocal harmonies of The Afropean Choir, Oxford's newest community
quality and diversity of corporate and cultural relationships in the
choir, the creation of Anita Daulne. Anita was born in the Congo,
South East region.
brought up in Belgium and now lives in Oxford. Her music spans
continents and musical genres, blending ethnic rhythms from all over
Earlier in the evening, Bride Hall had won the Arts & Business
Africa with European styles and the sounds of the city.
Community Award sponsored by SEEDA for ‘Other People’s
With so much quality and innovation on show, Jane Chambers,
Photographs’, an extraordinary public artwork that exists entirely
Regional Director, Arts & Business South East said: “Many
because the community of Folkestone supported its creation. Their
congratulations to our 2008 Award winners. Arts & Business is pleased
contribution was to loan 1650 personal photographs of everyday
and proud to acknowledge their creative collaborations, and we wish
events on the streets of the town over the years. Over 500 of these
them every success as they develop their partnerships in the future.”
images are now on show in their original locations, as permanent
signs in the streets in which they were taken, allowing everyone to
Arts and Business offer great advice on how to develop these
glimpse a past moment in a shared location, one for every street in
partnerships - it takes two to tango.
the town. Two digital touch screens are at the hub of ‘Other
People’s Photographs’ in Bride Hall’s new Bouverie Place shopping Source: Arts and Business South East
development showing all of the photographs loaned, together with www.aandb.org.uk/SouthEast
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