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SOUTHEND-ON-SEA ATTEMPTS THE GUINESS WORLD RECORD FOR THE LONGEST LINE OF BUNTING

As part of the arts festival Village Green – held annually on Chalkwell Park – arts organisation, Metal, are asking schools, community groups and individuals from across the Borough of Southend on Sea to take part in a shared attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous line of bunting.

The current record is 1,504.72m (14 July 2006).  We are attempting to create a line that is as long as our world famous, and much loved landmark, Southend Pier – that is exactly 1.3 miles (2158m).

OUR TARGET IS 2158m LONG -  8,991 FLAGS! 

The bunting will be exhibited at Village Green festival on Saturday 26th September 2009 in Chalkwell Park.  Come along to find your flag (or flags – there is no restriction on number of entries) among the many, as the line stretches around the entire park site.

Once completed and ratified by Guiness World Records, the bunting line will be available into the future for exhibition and use at celebratory events across the Borough.

DO YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED?

Download your bunting pack now from the following link: http://webengine.fuse8.com/sites/www.metalculture.com_/docs/Village%20Green%202009/Metal-bunting.pdf

This pack outlines:-

1.         how to take part

2.         the strict guidelines for the size and makeup of the flags and bunting line set down by Guiness World Records

3.         A template for the size of flag

4.         where to send your finished flags

Closing dates: 

For participating schools:          17th July 

For everyone else:                     28th August

There is no restriction on the number of flags you can enter – and a big prize for the largest number of entries from any one group or person.

Please take part and help us break a World Record for Southend.

For more information about Metal and / or this project, please contact Grace Acton on grace@metalculture.com or 01702 470700.

http://www.metalculture.com/News-World-Record-Attempt

On Wednesday the 29th of April Metal held thier second Pecha Kucha night at the Leigh Centre, Elm Road. The evening began at 7pm, with over 150 people turning up to listen to artists talk about their creative practice using twenty images with only twenty seconds to expand on each image. With some amazing speeches from Simon Poulter, a visual artist in residence with Metal, Charles Sharman-Cox, writer, director and actor for theatre and film, Roger Griffiths, an actor and theatre archivist from eye2eye productions, Kamil Pechalko, from community group Transition Westcliff, Darren Berry, Graphic designer and founder of southends young creatives and Scott Dolling, from enterprise and tourism at Southend-On-Sea Borough Council the audience were shown a whole new light on creatives based on southend. When the presentations were over, some beautiful and delicious foods were passed to the hungry audience provided by the welcoming staff of MyKitchen and the room was filled with the excited hum of conversation and laughter from the audience, fellow artists, actors, musicians and creatives.

Pecha Kucha literally translated from Japanese means “chit chat”, but has become known as a style of presentation with strict rules. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up.

The concept of Pecha Kucha originally came from designers Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public, but the idea has spread and now Pecha Kucha nights are held in over 180 cities all over the world. Licenses to hold such events have previously been awarded to organizations from three UK cities - London, Glasgow, and Brighton. Southend on Sea is only the fourth place to hold this type of event in the UK, and notably the only non-city to be accepted as an official Pecha Kucha night. Check out www.pecha-kucha.org for more info on Pecha Kucha.

Look out for more information on IDEA13 for up and coming Pecha Kucha nights in Southend on Sea.