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Text Festival 2014 - opening weekend (part 2)

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Sarah Sanders great "I used to" on the gallery stairs   Liz Collini work in progress   Steve Giasson Ron Silliman, Rachel Defay-Liautard and Marton Koppany  

Text Festival 2014 - opening weekend (Part 1)

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I think this may have been one of the strongest Festivals so far and a successful opening weekend - great people, great installations and performances.   Jayne Dyer's 'Blood Sport' with Carolyn Thompson's 'The Beast in Me' in the distance.  Derek Beaulieu's Dante window  Me chatting with Ron Silliman and Derek Beaulieu (Peter Jaeger and Eran Hadas in the background)  Ron Sillliman participating in the drawing shed installation  Some of the staff team - everyone has worked very hard.  Works by Simon Patterson, Riiko Sakkinen and Rachel Smith  View into the Dark Would installation The night Barney met Sarah Walters' Tommy  Penny Anderson's Travel Bag in the foreground Polari Mission exhibition in Bury Museum

Bury Sculpture Centre Opens

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Opening speeches from me, Cllr Sharon Briggs (Mayor of Bury) and Ian Tabbron (Arts Council of England) - and Greville Worthingon [out of shot](Yorkshire Sculpture Park).