For the Record – Durham’s Year of Culture - Seaham Food Festival 2019 video transcript

[At the top left of the image a Durham County Council logo followed by the text ‘Durham’s Year of Culture, For The Record, June 2019’ is displayed. Both are visible throughout the video.] [Councillor Simon Henig, Leader Durham County Council] [Head and shoulders view of Simon Henig standing in front of the festival tent food stalls, erected near the ‘Tommy’ statue, near the seafront at Seaham. It’s a sunny day and people are walking about the area.] [Sound people talking.] [As Simon speaks the following series of video clips are shown: A red ‘feather’ banner with the Bishop Auckland Food Festival and Durham County Council logo is shown flying in Bishop Auckland Market Place with the church and part of the Town Hall in view. A crowd of people, shoulder to shoulder, walking about the Market Place past the tent food stalls. A view of Auckland Castle gateway is in the background.] The Tour Series cycle race contestants wearing multi coloured, shades of blue, shades of green, red and white, pink and purple, cycling gear and helmets are riding their cycles through the cobbled streets of Durham, with people standing watching. A view from on high of the curved harbour at Seaham and the lighthouse beacon at the end of the harbour wall. The sea is sparkling in the sunlight. A few people are walking along the wall and some cars are parked at the start of the wall near the mainland. A Union Jack flag is flying, moving in the wind, and people are walking about enjoying the food stalls and sunshine. A memorial stone cross can be seen in the background near the stalls. A crow of people, shoulder to shoulder walking near the food stalls. A Durham County Council ‘feather’ banner can be seen. People walking near the food stalls, including a man with a young boy and a dog on a lead. People sitting in the round, in summer clothes and sun hats, listening to a brass band performance. A view of a Lumiere installation with Durham Cathedral in the backgroung. It shows rows and rows of blue lit flowers and a walkway between them. A view of a Lumiere installation in Durham Market place which is lit and in the form of a Fairground. A montage of images from events and landmark buildings around the county, with an orange band in the middle that has white text in which reads ‘#durham19’ A lady purchases some food from one of the stallholders. A man wearing a high visibility vest over his clothes is picking litter with a grabber and is carrying a bright blue bag for the litter. He is surrounded by people visiting the food stalls. A photograph of one of the stall holders smiling. Crowd photograph, with a volunteer in the foreground speaking to a person in the crowd.]

[Simon Henig speaking] The Year of Culture has started off very well. We’ve had the Bishop Auckland Food Festival in April, which attracted almost thirty thousand people. We’ve had The Tour Series, the cycle race coming to the streets of Durham and all the excitement that’s brought, and now we’re here at Seaham Food Festival on a fantastic day, looking forward to thousands of people coming and sampling food from about a hundred stall holders here on the Durham Coast in Seaham. So it’s been a really good start, but we’ve got lots more to come in our Year of Culture. We’ve got Cricket World Cup games that are on in two, or three weeks’ time, three Cricket World Cup games coming to County Durham. We’ve got Durham Brass in July, the Durham Miners Gala, another huge event in Durham City in July. We’ve got a number of things going on in the summer before we continue into the Durham Book Festival and then Lumiere in November again, which is set to attract hundreds of thousands of people. It’s a huge number of events during the year and that’s then come together to be badged up as #durham19 Year of Culture, really bringing together all of those events which together will attract huge numbers of people. A number of reasons why we are supporting this Year of Culture. Obviously a lot of people come in to Durham, so they come in and spend money, they stay, spend money in local businesses and that’s a big economic boost and that’s really important. But there are other reasons as well, a lot of people work on festivals such as this one, we’ve got a lot of local producers here at the Seaham Food Festival. In other events we’ve got a lot of volunteers, local people that are working in those events and also it’s something that puts County Durham on the map. So whether that’s here in Seaham with all the regeneration that’s taken place, whether it’s Durham City, whether it’s Bishop Auckland, there’s a huge amount going on in County Durham and all our events in the Year of Culture is something that really does show everything that we’ve got to offer. [Text on screen in orange on a white background: #durham19]