Best Event Tees Valley Award: Bauhaus exhibition@mima
Mar 25 2009 By The Journal
WINNER: Bauhaus exhibition@mima
Bauhaus 1919-1933, about the post-First World War movement, which signalled a new look and new social order in Germany, took over mima for several weeks and attracted more than 45,000 visitors.
From familiar Bauhaus-designed chairs, through photographs of original Bauhaus buildings as they are now, to objects, vessels, models and textiles, it was a realisation of the gallery's vision to display some of the best in art and craft and trace a path through history and across art forms.
FINALIST: Saltburn-by-the-Sea bandstand concerts
These concerts have drawn crowds of thousands since the volunteers of the Saltburn 500 club raised money to have the bandstand built.
It was opened in summer 1997 and has hosted concerts on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons from May to September each year.
Money is continually being raised to improve the area around the bandstand, which is often a focal point for visiting schools.
As music is being played, audiences can also see scenes from the story of East Cleveland in the bandstand's mosaic floor and of Saltburn's history in its surrounding grilles.
FINALIST: War of the Worlds
One of the highlights of the AV Festival 2008 was this ambitious performance based on HG Wells's tale about the invasion of the Earth by Martians.
Its radio adaptation by Orson Welles caused mass hysteria in the US when it was broadcast in 1938.
This time the crowd who watched Teesside-born TV actor Mark Benton star in last March's “life performance” of the radio recording, directed by Joanna Read at Middlesbrough Town Hall, was rather more calm but no less engrossed.
It was seen by 350 people and heard by 1,000 more via the festival radio station Resonance FM and online.
