Blue Group - Feedback from Visioning Event
Workshop #2
How
How about Bleriot? – Have the torch on a historic aircraft – French/English link.- Replica bronze age boat – spanning the channel – spanning the history – shared French/English history
Why
- Major transport route. Dover no 1/ Calais no 2
- Key entrance to British Isles
- Geology repeated on both sides
Where
- White cliffs – iconic
- Disadvantage – audience can not see it except through media.
- Need audience space. Although 4 billion people on TV
- Media show off White Cliffs?
- The community event on shore
- Shakespeare beach?
When
- Key time – dawn e.g. Millennium Dawn
- Projected on to cliffs at night – image
- As light come up image disappears
- Projection of cultural story for local people
Connection
- Traditional with continent
- Jewellery in Kent, Europe, ancient times
- Diversity of arrivals – welcome to all
- New world
Where
- Lighthouse
- Castle grounds
- Harbour
- Jets of water, water screen
- Project out of harbour into water screens
- River of light taking message out
- Lanterns in water
How
- Hot air balloon
- Submarine rising up through water
- Olympic sports – windsurfing, sailing across channel
- Cross channel relay – international relay from each country doing part of the Games
- Flotilla of boats – colour themes
- Boats nose to tail – walk across channel
- Laser from White cliffs to white cliffs – both sides. New dawn
When
- Something in the dawn – pre-dawn
- Night time vigils
- Paint explosions across the cliffs – blank canvass
Music
- ‘Fat Boy Slim’ – Right here right now
- A Beautiful Day – U2
- Kent/Pas de Calais committee for UNESCO bid
How
- Eurotunnel – above ferry, below tunnel
- Link lasers across channel and explosion of colour on to the cliffs on the other side
- Cross channel swimmers
- Combination of cross channel
- Split out strands of torch – arrive in Dover
How-Route
- Recreate coastal beacons – lit up around coast
- Canterbury Cathedral – route into England
- Invasions/Battle – flipped over to represent peace/pilgrimage
- Covering up dual carriageway for day – town currently in two
- Reclaim it
- Wrap the streets in coloured paper
- History is so important
- Aspiration at any age
- Mixture of ages and community – not separate – inclusive
- Green legacy – must address carbon neutral challenge
- Walk on water – on top of submarine
- Above Eurotunnel where link over and under
- Pathway of fire across the channel
Workshop #3
- Not a corporate event – a community event – not impressed upon.
- Engagement
- Images of Britain
- Images of event
- Continuity – legacy – carried on with future
- I can’t believe it happened
- Proud it happened
- About time
- Worthwhile
- Legacy for Dover
- First project back at school in September
- Reclaiming dual-carriageway
- Wanting to maintain the cleanliness, pride, spirit, capitalise on business
- Dover’s heritage is not treasured – instilled sense of pride after event
- Engage with disaffected youth before event so that they feel engaged with it on the day and beyond
- Something for the youth
- Exploring the natural landscape – why Kent is good, because of its countryside
- Space for young people
- ‘Dover using the torch rather than the torch using Dover’
- Spirit of Britain comes to meet the spirit of the Olympics. To Dover from Europe
- Tourism – the Kent package
- Link to Calais – joint
- Draw for people of Kent – draw lots of people en route
- Nomination of local ‘celebrity’ – not famous, but respected local community
- One chance for ‘first impression’
- We will be the first impression of the UK
- Excitement
- Everyone wants to tell their story afterwards
