Liverpool - March 2008
Liverpool: Centre of the Creative Universe... At the very last minute, and because another arts organisation decided to withdraw from the project, Hope Street was commissioned to produce a short play and workshop to accompany Mark Hill's Orrery sculpture. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of school children to Liverpool's cultural offer. We were proud to learn that this project would be the Creative Communities' flagship project until July when the tour would finish and would be visited by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport, ministers and representatives from future and former Cultural Capitals. The sculpture and an extract from the workshop was presented to HRH Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the city to open the 10,000 seat Arena & Convention Centre. As a 5-year old, on a holiday in Devon, I waved a Union Jack, hastily made (with white handkerchief and lipstick) by my mum, at the Queen as she passed by in her Daimler. This time I was presented to her. I doubt she remembered me from our first encounter...
