Red Group - Feedback from Visioning Event
Workshop#2
Where
- Castle
- Big Screen
- Flame travelling the water – trail of flame following route
- Water screen in harbour/torch relay to castle overnight
- Beacons light up around the UK
- Simultaneous lighting whole of UK
- Community gathering points at beacons
- Torch represents peace
- Environmental route through tunnel – all ‘inclusive’
- Running/cycling
- Capel le Ferne – WW1 memorial
- Samphire Hoe
How
- Submarine
- Cross channel swimming/jetpack/amphibious vehicle
- Hot air balloon
- Multi entrance – Eurotunnel/Blerio
- Benefitting from high speed rail link – UK and France
- Media may dictate entrance
What
- Dover harbour – light up
- Rings on water
- Projection on cliffs
- Multi flames – unite to make one
- Gold medal sailing on yacht with torch
- Second entrance from Paris via tunnel
- Light up cliffs
- Arrival at twilight – to show white cliffs
- Run across cliffs
Workshop#3
Different Sector Involvement
- Bring closer to Olympic values
- Part in history
- Connections to events
- Proud to be part of Dover
- Creation of a massive community event
- Different groups creating the whole
- Two generations sharing same experience 1948/2012
- Regeneratioin of town centre not just harbour
- Dover Discovery Centre
- Night time – special atmosphere – people walking/car free zone – celebration
- Not deterred by weather – free umbrellas/ponchos
- Strong emotions/good memories
- Links – where torch has come from and where it is going
- Connected – not just a place of transit
What do You Remember of the Arrival
- Buzz of large event
- Best street party ever
- Hopes of medal success
- Sense of pride in UK
- Money – don’t have to spend lots of money to have a good time
- Sustainable games/green Olympics
- Groups/Artists perform – proceeds to charity
- Different styles of music
- Opportunity to participate/community involvement
- Skills harnessed
- Contribute in active way – talent used and appreciated
Legacy
- Training/workshops
- Dover’s ownership – highlight what it has
- Music/story telling/collecting stories to archive memories – postcards, video
- Youth to have own facilities – both disabled/ able-bodied access
- Take ownership – create/maintain
- Opening ceremony on day of torch arrival – large screen to show TV pictures
- Student-led learning – dance/theatre/street performance
1948 newsreel equivalent – cinema in Dover
- 2012 experiences on film
