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The Great North Passion #6

Posted by
Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 27 April 2014 in Art & Design and Portfolio.

A wholly inclusive arts event in the Bents Park, South Shields featured a live broadcast on BBC One on Good Friday (18th. April)

A huge number of shipping containers were built into a "pop-up" cathedral in a typical cruciform shape to house the event in the Bents Park. A number of these containers were given out to commmunity groups throughout the North-East of England along with a sponsored artist, each group were tasked with making their own representation of one of the traditional twelve "stations of the cross" as used in the church during worship on Good Friday
to mark Christ's Passion.

Whilst I found that some this contemporary art making use of video projections and audio recordings somewhat underwhelming, other pieces were more poignant and meaningful and made my visit worthwhile. The live televised event was indeed very good, and a visit to view the huge cross of containers proved to be very colourful, at the least.

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PATRICK from miramas, France

superbe compo

27 Apr 2014 7:05am

Anthony Morgan Lambert from Bielefeld, Germany

nice compo,I like the lines and colours.The Folks in the foreground really make the shot though.

27 Apr 2014 12:20pm

Gerard1948 from Spain

Excellent composition and colors very bright background.
Have a good Sunday.

27 Apr 2014 12:24pm

Hiro from Kyoto, Japan

Nice

27 Apr 2014 12:35pm

farideh from rasht, Iran

Great.!!

27 Apr 2014 12:55pm

Devi from Chennai, India

Nice quiet mood with all these colours:)

27 Apr 2014 1:15pm

Lena from San Francisco, United States

Nice composition !

27 Apr 2014 3:41pm

Doug from Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Nice composition Curly

27 Apr 2014 7:34pm

Judy aka L@dybug from Brooksville, FL, United States

This was really a very unique undertaking; I hope it was well attended.

27 Apr 2014 9:06pm

@Judy aka L@dybug: It certainly was Judy.

BiLL from Carrickfergus, United Kingdom

Bold colours and patterns :)

27 Apr 2014 9:49pm

AMH from Buenos Aires, Argentina

He is adorable!! a very beautiful picture. big kiss. Alejandra

28 Apr 2014 2:18am

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