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Published:
July 29, 2008
Vandals'
attack on riverside exhibit angers Highbridge festival organisers
Vandals
have forced organisers of this week's River Brue Festival in Highbridge
to move one of their key exhibits to another location.
Artist
Stefan Jennings, pictured here, has been working with local youngsters
on the banks of the river in recent days to create a huge willow
sculpture,
but vandals launched a night-time attack and caused so much damage
that organisers have decided to move it away.
"The
sculpture was unfortunately far too vulnerable on the banks of
the River Brue, so it is now being built at a farm in West Huntspill,"
one of the event's organisers, Sarah Steadman, told Burnham-On-Sea.com
on Monday (July 28th).
 She
added: "At the beginning of the Brue Festival it will be
transported to its temporary location on the river banks and afterwards
Sedgemoor District Council has kindly allowed us to place it in
Apex Park for the public to enjoy for the rest of the summer."
Local
artist Judith Champion is among those supporting the River Brue
Festival, which starts on Friday (August 1st).
She
said she was "very disappointed" that the sculpture
had been attacked. "It's
sad that a small minority of youngsters are spoiling the enjoyment
of others. The intention was to have this sculpture built next
to the river," she told Burnham-On-Sea.com.
The
River Brue estuary will be a hive of activity this Friday, Saturday
and Sunday when the three day arts festival gets underway.
The
event is being hailed as a 'celebration of the creative arts in
the Burnham area' by its organisers, who include HABA (Highbridge
and Burnham Artists), Somerset Arts Week and the Regeneration
Partnership.
The
festival will also include sculpture workshops, a mural making
session, guided walks and family art workshops - as we recently
previewed here.
The
Highbridge History project will also put on an exhibition of photographs
and memories in the town's Community Hall on August 2nd and there
will be an outdoor arts fayre on Burnham seafront on August 2nd
and 3rd.
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