Voting Campaign What a Journey What a Learning Curve
- 03 August, 2018
- Linda Brogan
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Made a thousand mistakes. But opened up our project to the world. Marketing. A new adventure.
The memoirs and the excavation caught fire word of mouth. Whispers in the ear. Marketing was entirely knew to me. To you too. I'll know better next time. Should start with all your existing contacts I found out. But if I had we wouldn't have accumulated all these wonderful public endorsements on Twitter.
28th June: Granada reports
2nd July: Manchester Museum
https://twitter.com/ArchaeoManc/status/1013690935446827008
3rd July: Cotton
Built our website.
https://twitter.com/CottonCreative/status/1014122255738134528
4th July: Evan Davies
Student me, and Phil Collins Snr did a documentary with.
https://twitter.com/Evandavies97/status/1014522880930050048
4th July: The Agency
My agent
https://twitter.com/TALLAgent/status/1014523603184996352
9th July: Royal Exchange Theatre
https://twitter.com/rxtheatre/status/1016401601672589313
10th July: James Thompson
Vice Dean Of Manchester University
https://twitter.com/JamesThomp/status/1016922779533414400
11th July: Emily Rowles
Moss Side Councillor. Age Friendly are helping to fund Whitworth.
https://twitter.com/emilyrowles/status/1017039855891730433
11th July: One Manchester Housing Association
Helped to fund excavation + are funding Whitworth residency.
https://twitter.com/OneMcr/status/1017079837587099648
12th July: Museum ID
International conference where I will represent The Reno in Oct.
https://twitter.com/MuseumID/status/1017430269572341760
13th July: Manchester International Festival
Part funded excavation + Whitworth residency. We’ll work with them in 2021.
https://twitter.com/MIFestival/status/1017694202501660672
13th July: One Manchester
Starts a campaign of their own.
https://twitter.com/OneMcr/status/1017695901203263488
15th July: Gary Scott
Famous visual artist
https://twitter.com/garyscottartist/status/1018472637687828480
15th July: Craig Oldham
Who will design the Rough Trade Reno book.
https://twitter.com/OfficeOfCraig/status/1018725113414541313
16th July: City Life
https://twitter.com/CityLifeManc/status/1018830474192486400
16th July: The Mayor
https://twitter.com/MayorofGM/status/1018833446809034753
16th July: Alex Whinnom
Not sure if this is a piss take.
https://twitter.com/AlexWhinnom/status/1018902859876851713
16th July: Tribe Arts
Will be meeting them soon.
https://twitter.com/Tribe__Arts/status/1018912726343737345
16th July: Mahadi Sharif-Mahamed
Moss Side Coucillor. Him and Cllr Emily Rowle brought on board most MCR Cllrs, Moss Side’s MP Lucy Powell and Whallet Range MP Afzal Khan.
https://twitter.com/MahdiTaarwale/status/1018956031169351681
17th July: Rough Trade Records
Who have commissioned a book about the Reno.
https://twitter.com/RoughTradeBooks/status/1019139563573469184
17th July: The Whitworth Art Gallery
Where we will have our residency and stage our exhibtion.
https://twitter.com/WhitworthArt/status/1019147781884317696
18th July: Mike Nevell
Director Of Salford University Archaeology who excavated the Reno and was by my side throughout campaign
https://twitter.com/Archaeology_UoS/status/1019836604406489088
21st July: Lucy Powell MP
Moss Side’s MP
https://twitter.com/LucyMPowell/status/1020587575180972032
22nd, 23rd, 24th July: Louis Emerick
[Lou Grant] Brookside and Reno. An invaluable 2 way conversation.
https://twitter.com/thelouisemerick/status/1021166454631223296
24th July: Contact Theatre
Who helped me write the memoir Art's Council proposal. And commissioned my promotional interview.
https://twitter.com/ContactMcr/status/1021726698314838016
24th July: Afzal Khan MP
Whalley Range MP [My MP]
https://twitter.com/Afzal4Gorton/status/1022133941426372608
25th July: Home Manchester
https://twitter.com/HOME_mcr/status/1022158454541246464
26th July: Manchester City Council
Who lent us the land.
https://twitter.com/ManCityCouncil/status/1022441671328505856
26th July: MIF
Post reminder.
https://twitter.com/MIFestival/status/1022486894167433216
26th July: Manchester Cultural Partnerships
https://twitter.com/McrCulturePship/status/1022537249752338435
26th July: Amateur Archaeologists
Who helped us excavated. They loved it.
https://twitter.com/redwineimbiber/status/1022545172926750720
26th July: Manchester Evening News
Emily Heward who wrote an excavation article.
https://twitter.com/EmilyHeward/status/1022558246526218240
26th July: Andy Burnham
Our Mayor as himself.
https://twitter.com/AndyBurnhamGM/status/1022129038238867462
26th July: Lottery Good Causes
Who staged the competition.
https://twitter.com/LottoGoodCauses/status/1022788961788485632
27th July: The Whitworth Art Gallery
Post reminder.
https://twitter.com/WhitworthArt/status/1022809980263718912
27th July: Museum ID
Post reminder.
https://twitter.com/MuseumID/status/1022838317795172352
27th July: Z-Arts
https://twitter.com/Z_arts_mcr/status/1022866938916208640
Gives you a feel of my Twitter journey. Loads of their followers retweeted their endorsement posts.
They now know about us for our Whitworth Residency, Whitworth exhibition, and Musical. Of course the Reno should be a musical. With our soundtrack!!!!! I've had a lovely week thinking about how utterly fabulous it could be. Not just loads of actors on a stage and the audience looking at them. But an immersive musical. The audience go to the Reno. And just like in the Reno loads is happening all around. It depends where you are looking what show you see. And we are played by Moss Side teenagers. Contacted the huge theatre company who will translate these thoughts. Got lunch date in September with the huge arts organisation that will commission it.
Was interviewed by the wonderful Neelam Tailor today for Gal-dem magazine print edition http://www.gal-dem.com. They are a new powerhouse. Mentioned all over the place for their innovation. Like us I suppose. Giggling. They found us through our campaign on Twitter. Will let you know when it is published.
One last thing. Madness. Woke up with a mouth covered in scabs. Rang my doctor. Debbie the receptionist said: really funny hearing your voice on the phone when I've been watching the videos all week.' I must be honest part of me hated marketing. But it has definitely given the project a new lease of life. She was the 4th person last week to tell me they had visited the site for the first time.
Who'd have thought we'd have seen these 2 images together
Huge thank you to all that voted, to all who campaigned for votes, to all who kept me company on our first time out. We did great. We will do sensational next time. I know loads this side of the fence. Will let you know results as soon as I know. Oh, I did do all my contacts as well. I mean all of them. Smiling.