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22. What feedback from peer organisations did folly receive about
PBB?
Creative Feedback from other partners and stakeholders has been
Director positive, other art organisations within the city feedback has
been really positive but peer organisations working within
this field, I don’t think that many people attended… I don’t
think that’s specific to PBB… it was on pretty much the same
time as the [Liverpool] Biennial and those people that did
come did say “Wow this is really interesting stuff, I’m not
used to seeing stuff like this, I think this is more
interesting than the Biennial.” I think we should have
opened on a Sunday. We have opened on a Sunday in the
past but Lancaster itself is dead on a Sunday but quite a few
people that would have come from further afield said to me
afterwards “I was coming but it was shut on Sunday.”
Programme folly didn’t have the best track record in terms of working in
Manager partnership with local partners and what it enabled us to do
was encourage people to see the work that we do… That has
enabled us to establish good new working relationships
with people who now understand the quality of the work that
we do and want to develop new projects with us.
The researcher enquired what feedback folly had received from peer
organisations about the exhibition. CD indicated that local organisations had
responded positively but the exhibition had struggled to draw peers from the
wider region. The exhibition happening at the same time as the Liverpool
Biennial was pointed to as a possible cause of this but CD acknowledged that
folly normally had difficulty attracting peers from outside Lancaster anyway. It
was suggested the exhibition would perhaps been visited by representatives of
peer organisations had it been open on Sundays. PM stated the exhibition had
allowed folly to establish new relationships with local organisations that wanted
to develop future opportunities with them.
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