Had a great day in Dunkerque on Saturday mixing DAD (www.dadonline.eu) business with pleasure! Lunch was with Jean-Luc Du Val who heads up the library over there and who is finding imaginative ways of taking the library out to other venues; e.g. his pop up library in the Musee des Beaux Arts which is part of an exhibition about the sea starting in October. Managed to get a look at the installation so far as the museum was open for Heritage open days in France. The exhibition is well worth a visit by the way.
The afternoon was for shopping – wine and food – some of it for hospitality for upcoming DAD events and some as part of an early Christmas shopping drive!
In the evening we went to see a performance by Nicolette Picheral (writer, story teller and narrator) and Colin Hinds (electric guitar) in the Dunkerque lighthouse called Entre Phare et Shaft/Between Beacon and Shaft. The piece is coming to Dover at the end of the month and will be in English. Colin was amazing – I’ve never heard the elecric guitar played quite like that before; he managed some really subtle and quite sounds.
oof and I am busy leading on a project called nautical threads with Dover District schools. I have to say at times I get quite anxious as I am not that great at organisational detail and this project is not the way I normally work as although I am leading, many of the key people have been chosen by my lead school partner. So far so good though, and it will be a great exercise in partnership working. And Saturday’s visit to Dunkerque has prompted me to contact the library here about setting up a Nautical Threads corner. Just shows how important it is to get out and about.
