A quick update to let you know we've taken a last-minute stand at the Square Meal "Venues & Events" exhibition at Old Billingsgate this week. It seems a good replacement for our previous annual stand at the RSVP show, which sadly seems to have allowed itself to fall victim to the recession this year. "Venues and Events" is open this Wednesday and Thursday from 9.30am - 5.30pm; for more information please visit the show website at:
www.venuesandevents.co.uk
Michael and I will both be on the stand, so it will be good opportunity to meet up and discuss how silhouette cutting might work at whatever event you may be planning this year.
All this talk of Double-dip Recession we are hearing in the media reminds me of the famous American magician / silhouettist Dai Vernon. Dai was an artist who invented many of today's best-known magic tricks, but who actually supported himself and his family throughout the 1920's and 30's as a street silhouettist. During the long years of the Great Depression he would set up a stall - in whatever city he happened to be working at the time - under a banner saying "No Depression Here". Legend has it that he invariably had a long queue of customers!
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| Dai Vernon working in Chicago during the 1930's |
So, if you are able to visit Venues and Events this week, do make to time to come and get your silhouette cut out under the "NO RECESSION HERE" sign!
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