| Topic: | Re:Street Art - commitment to change Acton | |
| Posted by: | Abdul Tailor | |
| Date/Time: | 13/07/19 02:11:00 |
| Loving the idea of street art coming to Acton but would like to know the strategy in place once the art work goes up. How would the street art be promoted? Will there be tour guides ready to deliver tours? Have read through the thread and comparing ourselves with shoreditch or Leyton needs a rethought. Shoreditch has multiple tours, Acton? Even a self-guided tour produced by TFL and Ealing failed to list iconic buildings in Acton (Mosques despite walking past them) and both blamed each other for the absence of the Mosques (!) Leyton/ Leytonstone funding of shop fronts was largely on the back of the Olympics. If I'm not mistaken the last time anything with the Olympics was in the 1940s when 3 Olympics teams stayed in Acton nothing really happened then except Acton High School had a short revamp! Having said that Street Act has existed in South Acton, how much of it will remain? Will it be absorbed into the new suggested street art? I'm commissioned to run tours (have a separate tour in Acton) and other creative works in Museum, galleries and by local authorities and see places that have street art but also see a failure of local authorities promoting them. Let's not forget about 5 years ago a non-resident artist was commissioned to do some flower pots in Acton too was it ACF or Ealing who commissioned? What has happened to them now? Do people know where any of the remaining ones are? Did it bring tourists in? What about Acton Arts Centre project? Just a few points to ponder over but would like to know what happens after the street art goes up? |