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Margate is becoming a major arts centre. "The Boat Project" was the latest art to arrive. Unusually, this piece of art will directly help disadvantaged people.
http://www.theboatproject.com/
Quote from website:
"The Boat Project is a living archive of people's stories and lives, a 30ft vessel made from donated wooden items. From February to July 2011 the public donated their wood to the project but not just any old wood. Pencil or piano – exotic as Zebrawood or as familiar as pine every piece had a story behind it. Donations arrived in their thousands, from the highly personal to pieces of national importance. All of these donations have now been used to build a state-of-the-art seafaring yacht named Collective Spirit."
The wooden art boat is astonishing to see. Donated wooden items, from coat-hanger to clogs, were stuck together, planed and polished. It looks like a high class marquetry table.
http://margatehoststheboat.org/
The art-boat was built for the community. Anyone can apply to sail for free.
Disabled, handicapped and needy people will benefit.
What a wonderful use of art.
http://www.theboatproject.com/
Quote from website:
"The Boat Project is a living archive of people's stories and lives, a 30ft vessel made from donated wooden items. From February to July 2011 the public donated their wood to the project but not just any old wood. Pencil or piano – exotic as Zebrawood or as familiar as pine every piece had a story behind it. Donations arrived in their thousands, from the highly personal to pieces of national importance. All of these donations have now been used to build a state-of-the-art seafaring yacht named Collective Spirit."
The wooden art boat is astonishing to see. Donated wooden items, from coat-hanger to clogs, were stuck together, planed and polished. It looks like a high class marquetry table.
http://margatehoststheboat.org/
The art-boat was built for the community. Anyone can apply to sail for free.
Disabled, handicapped and needy people will benefit.
What a wonderful use of art.
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