After four years and changing the names of two brands, the body that oversees public spending begins an investigation Unboxed: UK creativity Against the event, where they encountered disturbing data: the number of alleged visitors did not even reach one percent of the number of visitors originally targeted – Watchman.
The 10 artworks dubbed “Brexit Festival” by conservative holiday politician Jacob Rees-Mogg can be visited. without box The project was announced by Theresa May, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after the 2016 British referendum on EU membership. The project was inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, the World’s Fair in London, and the Festival of Britain in 1951, and was described by May as the exhibition that “displays what makes the country great today”.
The National Audit Office (NAO) will soon investigate how the £120m project is being managed. The fair had only about 240,000 visitors, compared to the expected crowd of 66 million.
The House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee requested an investigation in September after the festival had previously been “Irresponsible use of public funds“ They accused, calling the program plan “a recipe for failure.”
Spending such a large amount of public money on a so-called celebration of creativity that has barely reached the public consciousness, calls into question how the project is managed from idea to implementation.
– The newspaper quoted the words of Conservative MP Julian Knight.
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Martin Green, one of the founders of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, without box At first one of its leaders thought it would be just a “national celebration”. According to Green, the event was ridiculed as a “Brexit Festival” after attracting a fraction of the expected number of visitors.
The first rule of big events: Don’t be a politician. Unfortunately, some of them chose politics from the start
Green said in August a house Political magazine.
On Monday, the festival’s spokesperson announced a BBC He said the reported data – especially the number of 240,000 visitors – was a distortion and was only applied to eight of the program’s 107 sites, adding that requests were made in more than a hundred cities and villages, and millions participated in the live programming. And digitally, content creators have employed thousands in the UK.
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Some artists have left the project, including pro-remain comedian Josie Long, who pulled out in 2020 after learning that the event was being referred to as the Brexit Festival. In turn, pro-Brexit Tory MPs have complained that the word “B” is missing from the title of the programme, while officials from the Committee on Culture, Media and Sport are said to be upset that the project has so far deviated from its original vision. He has lost touch with British idealism.
The last scheduled live event of the year will be in Liverpool on November 6. Among the most successful projects of the festival: Our place in spacea roving scale model of the solar system that combines a five-mile sculpted path with an interactive augmented reality app.
(Cover photo: Beasley Abbey illuminated panel on February 28, 2022 Unboxed: UK creativity At an event called Photo: Andy Buchanan/AFP)
