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WAC paints the town red

WAC helped add some ‘va va boom’ to the launch of a brand new gallery in London E17 – Tokarska Gallery – when it came up with a dynamic PR campaign just three weeks before the Grand Opening.

WAC achieved across the board media coverage in E17 and London, with two newspapers sending photographers to photograph art director Nadiya Pavliv Tokarska ahead of the Grand Opening. Tokarska Gallery confirmed that the gallery was the talk of the town in E17… even before the doors opened for the first solo exhibition of Nadiya’s cityscapes entitled ‘Lost & Found’. “We have been totally amazed by the background work that has gone into this campaign and WAC’s achieved a level of coverage and presence in the London media that we couldn’t have dreamt of.”

Above: Artist Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska in front of one of her iconic cityscapes

Young chefs cook up a storm

The Kent Young Chef Award devised by WAC PR on behalf of clients Produced in Kent, reached its climax at Woods Restaurant, on the Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells when the two winners helped to cook a menu they’d designed themselves under the watchful eye of head chef Claire Wood.

The packed restaurant of 60 guests tucked into a fabulous four course meal starting with leek and potato soup, a tasty salad including quail’s egg and wild mushroom, a haunch of Venison, followed by Braeburn Apple Tart. All the dishes featured locally grown and reared produce.

The eight finalists from the Live Cook Off then had the fantastic experience of cooking for a day at one of Richard Phillips’ three restaurants in Kent. Once again WAC ensured the second KYCA happened under the blaze of Kent’s media, with extensive coverage in the region’s newspapers, magazines, radio and online. Left: Thomas Perkins celebrates with celebrity guest Neil Buchanan of Art Attack

Lucky three for Shipbourne at Taste of Kent Awards

Companies across Kent were celebrating their win at Leeds Castle, in the county’s most
prestigious food and drink awards – the Taste of Kent Awards. The brainchild of local food
champions, Produced in Kent, the glittering awards night recognised the county’s most
outstanding food and drink producers, retailers, restaurants, dining pubs and farmers’ market during 2010.

Shipbourne Farmers’ Market which holds its multi-award winning weekly market in the grounds and historic church at Shipbourne won Kent’s Farmers’ Market of the Year
category for the third time! Bob Taylor, market manager said: “Winning the Kent Farmers’ Market of the Year again gives recognition to our stallholders and our volunteers who together create the unique ‘Shipbourne shopping experience’.

	" The night was hosted by John Warnett and Gemma Sterba, presenters on BBC Radio Kent’s breakfast show, whilst the recently honoured Amanda Cottrell OBE, patron of Produced in Kent praised Kent’s outstanding ‘food and drink heroes’ during her presentation.
Above: Kent Farmers' Market of the Year - Shipbourne. L-R John Warnett (BBC) Bob Taylor (Shipbourne Farmers' Market) and Katie Smith-Palomeque (Hadlow College)

In on the crime

We have recently been promoting the ‘Most Wanted’ art collection by Louis Sidoli featuring the vintage mug shots of 12 famous and infamous characters of rock and roll, the silver screen and even the criminal underworld, all of whom have fallen foul of the law. With one infamous gangster in the line up, there are also some surprising legends of stage and screen in the rogues’ gallery. Go to www.castlegalleries.com to see the whole line up.

Above: David Bowie, one of the celebrities in the ‘Most Wanted’ collection by Louis Sidoli

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