http://www.graffworkshop.co.uk
This was a little while ago but was a Graff Workshop first, so worthy of comment. Three of us were paid to go to Dublin for a night to paint live on stage...in front of 1000 people for the food chain Iceland. For their annual manager party.
Wake up at 2am and pick up Josh from Bristol. Then drive to the Midlands to pick up Chris. Then off to Holyhead North Wales (middle of nowhere and hours away) to get the ferry across to Dublin. One speeding ticket and one wrong turn and we arrive early, at about 7:30am.
Get a few winks on the ferry, in between exploring and doing a few designs for the event that evening. We get to Dublin, find the conference centre, show our faces and get told we need to stay there till the evening. So we see what we need to do and sneak off to the hostel to get a bit more sleep and some dinner before the evening. We would usually stay in a hotel but someone managed to book us in to a hotel in Belfast instead of Dublin. Couldn't get a refund on the hotel so had to go cheap.
So after a stroll round Dublin we drive back to the conference centre through the horrible Belfast one way system. We paint the dancers costumes and the ladders we are using and get backstage. At around 21:00 we're told we have an hour till we go on stage so me and Chris have a wonder round. At 21:20 we are told to go on stage early so we all wait behind our stages. We each have a large stage to paint using UV spray paint, and all the stages surround a huge venue with 1000 people having dinner.
Anyway we get our designs done and it all looks great. We get off stage and celebrate with a Guiness or two, back to the hostel and up at 7am the next morning to catch the ferry back to England.
All in a days work
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