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unfortunate that people feel that way. This is the level of quality we deliver it’s<br />

on a par with what we want to do and will continue to do.<br />

22. What feedback from peer organisations did folly receive about<br />

PBB?<br />

folly didn’t have the best track record in terms of working in partnership with<br />

local partners and what it enabled us to do was encourage people to see the<br />

work that we do. Some people were further involved in wider f.city festival<br />

activity and we could explain our work far better by having something we could<br />

take them to and enable them to interact with things and see things which we<br />

can’t do currently where we are. That has enabled us to establish good new<br />

working relationships with people who now understand the quality of the work<br />

that we do and want to develop new projects with us. So the Festival of Digital<br />

Culture that PBB was part of will happen again later this year and we have been<br />

quite taken aback by how openly people have accepted a different type of festival<br />

again, but they understand now the qualities of the type of work we do through<br />

the twin virtues of PBB and the festival that surrounded it. That’s great for us<br />

because it makes our job a lot easier and this is about establishing collaborative<br />

working practice as well. It’s not just about you can host this project its actually<br />

we want to work to develop this project and obviously working with Fast-uk and<br />

developing the show from a curatorial perspective obviously helped folly to<br />

recognise that we can work in that way and we will continue to work in that way.<br />

23. What feedback from funders did folly receive about PBB?<br />

I’m not quite sure how the Arts Council really felt about PBB I didn’t really get<br />

the chance to talk to their representative who came. So I can’t really comment<br />

on what the Art Council felt. Overall in terms of PBB and f.city the Arts Council<br />

were very happy, but I haven’t any specific feedback, that I’m aware of in<br />

relation to PBB and the type of work on show. Taylor [Nuttall] spoke to Will<br />

Carr at Arts Council England.<br />

There isn’t an arts officer within the Lancaster City Council - the people we<br />

worked with had far more to do with the regeneration side of things and they<br />

were thrilled. We had actually managed to energise a building. Putting that<br />

work in that building would enable them to let that building and it showed the<br />

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