I just spent an hour seeing what the culture secretary and Brexit opportunities minister have been saying about it and couldn’t find anything. Nor anything from prominent brexiteers like Steve Baker
Anyone attended any of the events? Or seen any coverage?
Is PoliNation the plastic tree thing? Assumed that was coming to town as something to do with the Commonwealth games. Expected anything to do with Brexit would be flag shagging stuff.
There was a DCMS committee report on the government’s events strategy back in March that was particularly scathing about Unboxed.
It said: “The Government and organisers have great ambitions for this year’s “festival of creativity”, Unboxed: Creativity in the UK, but have thus far failed to communicate a compelling vision for it to the British public, or to develop a meaningful plan for touring it internationally. With so little time to go before the festival’s programme begins, we seriously question whether it will deliver return on the £120 million investment for the public purse or simply prove its sceptics right.”
Saw ‘Tour de Moon’ mentioned somewhere the other day and looked it up. Still don’t understand what it is.
Just look at the glamour spots it’s visiting though!