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Outdoor Event Commission for 2010 Festivities
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Festivities wins Best Event Award
Ghost Ship won the Best Event in The News Guide Awards. The Awards ceremony was held on Monday 16 November at the Kings Theatre at an event attended by the Lord Mayor many people invovled in the arts and cultural scene in Portsmouth.
The editor of The News Mark Waldron presented the Award to Festivities General Manager Pippa Cleary who said 'I am thrilled to receive the award for Best Event on behalf all of those who worked on Ghost Ship - the team from Walk the Plank, the Portsmouth Festivities’ partners, sponsors and supporters including Arts Council England, Portsmouth City Council, The Southern Cooperative, BVT Surface Fleet, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and the Mary Rose Trust, and all of the young people from schools across the city who all worked so hard and took part so brilliantly in the event itself. It was a great day, a wonderful community celebration and a spectacular finale to the Portsmouth Festivities. To be awarded Best Event in The Guide Awards is a great tribute to everyone involved.'
Festivities nominated for Award
Ghost Ship is nominated in the Best Event category in 2009 in The News Guide Awards. Winners will be announced on Monday 16 November.
Thousands gather to celebrate the HENRY 500
The Portsmouth Festivities Henry 500 celebration has been an outstanding success. A spectacular week of celebrations to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne and the commissioning of his favourite warship, the Mary Rose featured high profile artists and speakers in venues across the city and attracted record audiences with most events selling out.
The Festivities culminated in a Tudor Pageant from the Historic Dockyard to Southsea Castle. The event, which involved hundreds of young people from across the city, coincided with the king's 18th birthday 500 years ago on 28 June 1509.
Ghost Ship: A Pageant for Portsmouth featured a whole day of celebratings ending with a Twilight Fire Spectacle featuring the burning of a Tudor Ghost Ship and spectacular firework display in the shadow of Southsea Castle, where Henry VIII stood and watched his favourite warship sink in 1545. Hundreds of young people from the city participated in the performance which told the story of the birth of the modern navy in Portsmouth.
This stunning event, devised by Walk the Plank, was supported by Arts Council England, Portsmouth City Council, BVT Surface Fleet, The Southern Cooperative, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and the Mary Rose Trust.
Participating schools included Portsmouth Grammar School, Admiral Lord Nelson School, King Richard School Paulsgrove (evening show) and Portsmouth Grammar Junior School, St Swithuns Primary School, Corpus Christi Primary School and young people from ‘Pompey Stars’ (daytime pageant). A programme of workshops had taken place in schools and at the Mary Rose Trust on the weeks and months leading up to the show involving music: traditional shanty singing and 21st century ‘rap’ shanty singing, dancing, parkour, pennant making and Tudor diet and healthy eating.
