What's your town doing for the Homecoming?

[Penny-lope]

Dundee this year, instead of doing the traditional 'switching the Christmas lights on' night, it is joining Homecoming Scotland 2009, which celebrates the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns birth.

The entertainment is described as "A visual feast set to mix stunning audiovisual displays and music against a backdrop of street art, performances and storytelling, culminating in a fireworks display"

So what's going on in your town? And will you be going along for a look?

[Craigie]

"Homecoming" is all a commercial con that has been very conveniently hijacked by the Scottish Parliament as a reason to pin events and commercial spin-offs onto.

A Poet was born 250 years ago. Big wow?

And to answer your question - not a lot!!

[KB_S1]

Craigie said:

"Homecoming" is all a commercial con that has been very conveniently hijacked by the Scottish Parliament as a reason to pin events and commercial spin-offs onto.

A Poet was born 250 years ago. Big wow?

And to answer your question - not a lot!!

A lot more to it than that for the arts communities.
For a lot of musicians it has been a good catalyst to explore a variety of themes within a common context.

[ALY77]

Hate to sound like Craigie but no idea whats planned under that banner as I don't really care very much.
Yet more tourist targetted rubbish that doesn't affect many of the actual Scots. Much like most of the "events" in my fair city!

[Celt]

Craigie said:

"Homecoming" is all a commercial con...

Yeh it was to help boost tourism and help shops and business'. They aim to make 44m from just 5m if it does that, which there apparently on track to do then good. I wont benifit out of it at all. But if its helping people stay afloat then good.

[Rockatansky]

Penny-lope said:

So what's going on in your town?

Here in Edinburgh our glorious cooncil is bailing out the £600,000 loss making disaster that was Homecoming Scotland, just so we can do it all again next year.

Waste of money?

Me, cynical?

[KB_S1]

Celt said:

Craigie said:

"Homecoming" is all a commercial con...

Yeh it was to help boost tourism and help shops and business'. They aim to make 44m from just 5m if it does that, which there apparently on track to do then good. I wont benifit out of it at all. But if its helping people stay afloat then good.

It contributed towards about 15 days work for me and a studio, as well as a few session musicians.
Not a lot but the project was unlikely to have been commercially viable without the surrounding PR and marketing.

[Famous Graham]

Rockatansky said:

Penny-lope said:

So what's going on in your town?

Here in Edinburgh our glorious cooncil is bailing out the £600,000 loss making disaster that was Homecoming Scotland, just so we can do it all again next year.

Waste of money?

Me, cynical?

It's the Gathering - it was just trumpeted under the Homecoming banner (as mentioned above for other random events)