{"id":147,"date":"2014-08-13T18:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:27:59","slug":"report-festival-of-imagineers-coventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/2014\/08\/report-festival-of-imagineers-coventry\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Festival of Imagineers, Coventry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Saturday we took our camera out of Birmingham! Only to Coventry, mind, but even so. Next stop, Brazil!<\/p>\n

We were invited to the inaugural Festival Of Imagineers<\/strong>, put on by Imagineer Productions<\/a> who are responsible for the giant Godiva puppet that Coventry has taken to its collective hearts. That's not just hyperbole – it was really noticeable how much affection people had for their giant blinking puppet and this little festival really built on that, bringing in a load of similar performers and makers from around the country to entertain Coventry.<\/p>\n

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Compared with some of the street artists and performers we felt a little amateur at times with our scruffy box and ordinary clothes, but that didn't stop hundreds of people sticking their heads in and telling us their camera obscura stories. I think we represented the \"anyone can do this, and it's still magical\" side of things. And that's a very good thing to represent.<\/p>\n

There are plans for this to be an annual event which we'd love to come back to but in the meanwhile we'll be back in Coventry on November 8-9th for the (unrelated) Imagineering Festival<\/a> at the Rioch Stadium where we hope to be running some obscura workshops.<\/p>\n

Here's a bit of video shot inside the camera, followed by the photos.<\/p>\n