Updates
Thank you so much for your support. The project has now started and we have had two excellent and enjoyable workshops in Dewsbury (banner printing) and Huddersfield (music) with a banner workshop in Dewsbury tomorrow. We are happy to invite you to the final event on July 11th at 2pm in Dewsbury at Longcauseway Church Hall. Please let us know if you are coming - [email protected]
The project has started! Go to https://www.facebook.com/6MillionPlus to follow what is going on. Here you can find Adam Strickson, 6 million+ artist, reading a poem a poem on video every day (from yesterday) for 31 days. until our commemoration on July 11th. The poems are from his sequence 'Noisy are the Birds': each poem connects a bird that can be found in Bosnia and West Yorkshire with a man or boy murdered in Srebrenica in 1995. He begins with the woodpecker, and today it was the turn of the dipper.
A yellow trumpet flower from our Bosnian 'petal pattern' from a few years ago to announce our success. We are delighted to announce that our Growing Great Spaces Spacehive fundraising campaign has reached our required total. A huge thank you to everyone who has donated and helped to spread the word. Workshops start in Dewsbury on Saturday and we are looking forward to working with musicians Henry Parker and Sanja Cin, printmaker Karen Stansfield and community coordinator Mohsen Usyan. The final event, which the Mayor of Kirklees is attending, is at 2pm on Saturday July 11th in Dewsbury, and we'll be sending invitations out to the event nearer the time.
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
A grant from One Community that will appear on here towards the end of next week takes us just £911 away from our total but we still need to raise the remaining 10% or we will lose the generous Kirklees contribution. 11 days to do it! Lots of shares on social media - thanks for this - but we need those personal encouragements to your friends and colleagues. We'll get there!
