Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well, we're eight months into it folks! What do you think of it so far?
Have your say. Public meeting, Maison Dieu House, 18.30 on Wednesday 6th August.
Terry
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Festival of What ??
Think it was all over-diluted and should have concentrated on a summer festival....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Agreed a year is just to long, a week or two at the most would have been better.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the idea was a non starter, not enough people available to keep things going for a year.
the programme was padded out with church services etc that happened every sunday anyway.
A great idea gone astray as far as I can see.
A year long festival was never going to work, as Howard has stated, most of the year has been padded out in the quieter months with a list of church services.
What should have happened is this.
1. A proper launch starting say the beggining of May, with the festival running until say end of August
2. A vast array of events could have been put into those few months. The biggies such as 1940's weekend,Carnival, regatta, kite festival, horticultural festival, priory forum, Community safety day,connaught park.
On the weekends in between all of these could have been padded the slightly smaller events, paper boat race etc.
3. End the festival with a proper closing ceremony.
What has happened is, as I guessed it would, people lost interest.
Dover festival has a huge potential, but not in it's current format. There is no reason it cannot happen every year, but not for a whole year. It simply was never going to work, and anyone who thought a year long festival would, were very much looking at it through rose tinted specks.
Mand x
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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PLEASE NOTE:- Due to the illness of the Chairman the meeting has been postponed to a date yet to be fixed.
Terry
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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who is the chairperson terry?
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Cllr Ronnie Philpott, nice lady. I couldn't possibly say how old she is but I went to school with her!
Terry
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Guest 662- Registered: 18 Mar 2008
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Best Wishes to Ronnie I hope its not serious, mind you she was on the seafront all weekend in the great british weather.
Michelle
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Ronnie's a good 'un, I wish her well and hope she has a speedy recovery.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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did ronnie win a prize at the "boat race"?
i remember roger winning a free cruise there.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Nah! You've muddled it Howard. Ronnie got the free cruise (if that's what you a P&O day trip), Roger got a free lunch at his old work place!
Terry
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Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Wishing you well soon Ronnie xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Yes Ronnie get well soon perhaps The festival should have only been a week maybe two long, there might have been a bit more of a response to it from people.(just a thought)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I hope Ronnie gets well soon.
The Festival was got up by me, and it is going well I an not going to say it all again, but the festival was all about what events was going on all the year round with some new ones and is what it is all about nothing more nothing less.
vic m
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you soon lost interest in it though victor.
great to have a brainwave, but staying power is sometomes required.
Yes Howard Vic did soon lose interest, but we have seen him do that many times before on stuff,
He wants to take the credit for stuff, but as you say Howard. Staying Power is required and Vic doesn't have it.
We all know that it was all about a "year" of events, but how many times do we have to say it
"A YEAR WAS TO LONG!" Especially when it was just padded out with church services.
I know for a FACT that when the magnets and event sheets were handed out to parents at my childs school.
The minute they saw all the church services, they were all like. "What a load of rubbish".
Church might be your cup of tea vic, and I am not knocking that, but if the festival is going to be a year long , then the events in that year need to be events you can take your family to and have fun at. By all means put SOME church services in, but ya gotta be honest Vic it was a bit OTT on that front.
Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I said from the onset that a year long festival was too long.Many years ago DDC used to put on a festival for just over a week .I think Vic was trying to have a diary of events listed but it was an expensive way of doing it .We used to have a diary and all events were placed into it so events hopefully did not clash.That is still done at DDC if we are notified.Mandie is correct you have to have the staying power.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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let us hope that lessons have been learned.
i do not think it is a good idea to cram in all the good events.
an even spread of things like the regatta, carnival, film show at connaught, boat race, plus the other things that the town council and others put on gives us something to look forward to.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am still with it all, YES I have miss meeting but that is all my work will always come first some of the cllrs do not work so they can put more time to things, but for the rest of us, I can only talk about myself but there are others in the same boat but I sometimes put in a 12hour day or more at my job and that could be anywhere from dovor to London or any place, and I am well over 60years now and it does take it out of me, any event I come up with I have done alot of work on before I take it to any outside group.
Vic Matcham