Rate City Of Culture 2005 Success/Experience Out Of 10

[shammy feen]

This should be interesting....

[STEVIEG]

No 3 and a half option so fuck it

[Killyoursons]

Who the hell voted 10?

[floozy]

from the performance point of view, it was a great year for me! performed in 3 shows and countless concerts! so i, for one, enjoyed the year. (but then again this is purely from a performers point of view)

[RizzlaRebel]

Living in Dublin myself but from when I was down home and what I have heard it wasn't great. The one thing I will say is it has brought Cork back into the national consciousness and the number of people from work that have visited Cork as a result is quite big, usually it being their first time in years being down there. Most of them were very impressed with the city and how it's developing. So while it hasn't been a week in week out cultural success I think it will have medium/long term benefits for the city.

[shammy feen]

Any chance of making this a sticky?

[Rebelred]

gave it 4,the fireworks at the start of the year garnered 2 points, and so did the fireworks new years eve

[jungle]

I'm still unsure what people expected. There were suggestions that it was too elitist, but populist events should have been profitable in their own right (e.g. Gigs in the showgrounds) and not eligible for funding.

Events like the street theatre were worthwhile and will hopefully be repeated if sponsorship can be found. The year gave a kick-start to performing companies like Opera 2005, who hopefully will have a future (and a new name!!!) despite funding problems. The knitting map was a scandalous waste of almost 10% of the total budget.

Overall, my biggest criticism would be of the committee's communications. Events were on, but they were not publicised. Information on the website was out of date or just inaccurate. Listings seemed to be published in The Echo on a Thursday, which wasn't much good for weekend visitors. Many people who didn't participate may have done so, if they'd known what there was to do.

[Stephen-Ryan]

I gave it a five and it was lucky to get that the only reason was I was involved in a couple of events plus I enjoyed the fireworks, street theatre, and a few more things. Where it went wrong was the fact that the supposed soccer tournament was a now show, the one off big concert didnt happen, there should have been more street events and stuff for families etc..

[Nicewanbiy]

Disappointed in "it".

[slave4scarlet]

there was no 0 so bah

[finn the feenian]

Patras in Greece , 2006 city of culture

"The planning involves the construction of a major archaelogical museum, to be finished in 2006, which with its globe-like roof and modern architectural design, will enhance the town's northern entrance and take its place among the other town landmarks."

well, not bad. The Greeks are proud of their history, so, they'll get something long term out of it.

[finn the feenian]

get a load of the Patras 2006 site. not bad like

http://patras2006.gr/en/

calendar isnt bad. nice photo gallery on the front page... nice design overall. very impressed with it.

[Langer Dan]

complete and absolute load of shit.

[POL]

complete and absolute load of shit.

OPEN YOUR MIND

[glistenclosely]

Complete and utter pile of septic rabbit shite, the whole thing.

Some wealthy arty fucks drinking wine and laughing at the stupid plebs qeueing for hours to see embarrasingly bad events like the festival of light which was just appalingly bad. Fuckin monkey dancers and bongo drummers as if we haven't seen enough of that already.

All the money went to foreign artists visiting cork. What the fuck wre the organisers thinking?

Fucking rectal shit warts.




Bastards

[Míshásta]

Thugas 5 mar táim i ndea-ghiúmar anocht.

Neamhaird déanta ar na h-ealaíona traidisiúnta mar is gnáth.

Agus an focain léarscáil cniotáilte úd a chosnaigh an méid chéanna is a thabharfá ar thigh i nGleanntán. Jóc na bliana.