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The exhibition go off to a terrific start after the ribbon was cut by His Worshipfullness the Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland Cllr Ray Goddard. Over 600 visitors came on the first day and the following are some video interviews on the day. There’s a fantastic collection of photos from Christine Wilson on the Skinningrove site. Below are just three examples. You can see the full set if you click here.
The finds will be displayed at Kirkleatham Museum but for a week in May 2011 the exhibition will take place in the community where there are likely to be people descended from the Loftus Princess ! The exhibition in Loftus Town Hall is a culmination of hard work by Redcar and Cleveland Council, Loftus Town Council, Kirkleatham Museum, The Local Community, School Children and Steve Sherlock himself. The Exhibition runs at Lofus Town Hall from the 9th to the 13th of May. We’ll bring you pictures and stories from the event plus some excerpts from Steve’s book on this website. Click here to view these items in the order they were posted
 As part of our (postponed) Animex event in Saltburn, artist collective Hirvitalo from Finand are offering a workshops for schools and community groups as set out below. Our Finish visitors will arrive in time to deliver these on Feb 28th March 1st and we hope to film them and show highlights in Saltburn on March 3rd at Saltburn Community Theatre. Workshops so far are 28th Feb 1.15pm Whitecliffe Primary, Carlin How 4.30pm St Cuthberts Centre Crook (Juniors) 7.00pm St Cuthberts Centre Crook (Seniors) 1st March 7.00pm Destinations, Saltburn (Upstairs) 7.00pm JUNIORS – Pirates and Vikings (15-30 min) SENIORS – The Post Industrial World – Dystopia to Utopia (30-45min)
Emptied factories and no jobs. Finland and England have this in common. Paper, steel, coal and other mass industries are history and are being replaced with??? A workshop will give participants an empty factory building and we will try and build a future with it. A new paradigm – a commons industry is the aim and an animation will be made of the process. NOTE ‘The commons are resources that are collectively owned or shared between or among people and can include everything from natural resources and land to software.’ About the artists Finnish artist collective Hirvitalo initiated last year a project Second Forest which explores the cultural change of globalizing boreal forest in the age of social media by various artistic means including discussions and workshops in both virtual and real world environments. This year the Second Forest project is focusing on the concept of Everyman’s Rights, a Scandinavian version of Common Rights which has profoundly shaped the relationship between Nordic people and the forest. This concept is currently in a crisis, which is caused by the globalizing industry based on forest products. Also the whole concept of Commons is changing due the growing distrust to privatizing of natural resources and development of the Peer-to-Peer culture in the online world. Second Forest project team, Markus Petz, Ismo Torvinen and Mikko Lipiäinen are now organizing workshops and discussions in which the past, present and the future of the Everyman’s Rights and the Commons is explored so that we gain a better understanding of the global importance of these concepts. For more info or to host a workshop contact: Steve Thompson, M – 07795 826953 Production has begun again after the Christmas break on “Tommy and Barry Go Back”. We lost a lot of production days before Christmas to weather condition and ill health so we have postponed the world premiere to March 3rd. It’s the same venue, Saltburn Community Theatre at 7.30pm. We moved our production location to Destinations in Saltburn as a more convenient location. Yesterday we got some very tricky shots in the can including Zeppelin flying and Chilean rescue pod maneuvering! Next production day is Friday 21st (Destinations Again) when we hope to finish the 1945 Jetty scene. Below are some stills from scene 6. 
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The Teesside Embassy to the Republic of Uzhupis (Lithuania) hosted a hook up between countries celebrating the Republics independence day. The live video streams have gone silent now but messages from Teesside to the republic are still viewable. 
