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that should be in London. So there was a real sense of pride in that. I think that
was the biggest thing that it was successful in achieving and people spent time
there, people took their family there more than we have had before. People
found that it helped make sense of what on earth art and technology might
entail. The other thing is that folly is still doing stuff round here and I think that
was part of it.
22. What feedback from peer organisations did folly receive about
PBB?
Not so much as we could have done. Feedback from other partners and
stakeholders has been positive, other art organisation within the city feedback
has been really positive but peer organisations working within this field, I don’t
think that many people attended. My feeling is that even at the opening which
was really well attended its something that we struggle with in Lancaster as a
whole is trying to get peer organisations. Even just up the road for an hour and
a half or an hour to come and see some stuff here. I don’t think that’s specific to
PBB although I felt that it would have been enough of a draw for people but I
don’t really think that was achieved. So the amount of feedback from peer
organisations that actually attended the show is pretty minimal. I think that
people know that it happened and I think probably Manet pushed it and
supported it most of those peer groups and I was copied into some really
positive comments and pushes that Debbie tried to make to encourage people to
come up and take part and have a look. Other people came from places
Manchester City Art Gallery because the link with our Programme Coordinator
on PBB and there the feedback was really positive. Thinking about it another
really strong thing that came out obviously 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 and that was definitely more than a couple of
times. So that’s really strong but getting those people to come here was a
challenge and again in retrospect what we should have done differently was 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 a field said to me afterwards I was coming but it was
shut on Sunday. There were quite a few quite critical people that if they had
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