Lots of sorting out in the building but one that I know well having spent four weeks here in May during Mayfest when we did SS Arcadia. Our new office looks out onto College Green and the Cathedral, a very distracting view with its constant flow of people, performers, protesters, tourists, hen and stag parties, and the top deck of the double deckers level with the window, then awesome in the snow with the the new moon over the cathedral, lights in the trees and a freezing night.Our opening weekend 17/18/19 December was a kind of miracle after a marathon of cleaning and transformation of the old Sandwich Box into the Ginger Cafe. The rooms upstairs shifting and accomodating Davy and Kristin McQuire’s ‘Ice Book’, ‘Peep Show Pleasure’ and the delight of finding his animated pin board ‘The Girl with the Two Toned Hair’ in the passageway. You could enter Cat Attaway’s 3D world in the SS Arcadia lift, and Silje Ensby’s calm installation in the old ship’s boutique.
Up the stairs passed Interval’s new spaces, I was sorry to miss their performances on Friday night and Sunday as I was busy in the Ginger cafe and then unable to get in due to the snow.
On up to the top floor under the glass dome at the top of the stairs, the top deck, and the surprise of Stand + Stare’s beautiful bell tent pitched under a blue sky and clouds, and drawn into the 1970 ′s world of ‘The Children of modernity’.
A burst of energy and creativity in a building which must be taking a deep breath after sitting empty for so long.
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