Where to next?
One of the perks of working In the Moment is that we get to travel to many different locations to draw. Mostly though, this drawing happens in a familiar round of conference centres, hotels, office buildings and auditoriums. Sometimes, however, the venue is a little more unique.
Late last year at an event in Florence for the European Degree Form we found the event was split between two venues - one at Badia Fiesolana, a renaissance monastery overlooking Fiesole on the outskirts of the city, and the other at the former Palazzo Buontalenti, just a short walk from the centre of the city, which retained it’s impressive frescos. Both venues are now part of the European University Institute’s Florence School of Transnational Governance which was hosting the event.
This reminded me of some of the more unusual venues we’ve drawn at over the years, and going a way back to one of our early gigs, at the Stab Vélodrome in Roubaix in northern France for Interreg. Drawing whilst cyclists whipped around us at great speed made for an unusual experience.
A little less racing and a bit more racy was the speakeasy in Chicago back in 2018 - a (formerly) illegal drinking den from the days of Prohibition.
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is a vast building that served as Nicolae Ceaușescu’s palace and, now houses the Romanian parliament. We drew a several conferences there in 2019 at what is one of the biggest - and heaviest - buildings in the world.
Other unusual venues we’ve worked at include the Churchill War Rooms - a series of interconnecting underground bunkers under Whitehall in London where Winston and his war cabinet planned Britain’s defence in the Second World War; and a former fish market (now a nightclub) in Marseille. The smell had, thankfully, gone!
So - do you have any events in unusual places coming up that would benefit from our services?