Dressing the city

By Bec Britain from Same Sky 

Local community arts charity Same Sky has been charged with 'dressing the city' as we celebrate rugby in September 2015.  We hope to make it a riot of colour for visitors and teams as they explore Brighton & Hove.  We'll be hanging banners at the station, filling shop windows with rosettes, adorning the clock tower and lining Madeira Drive with flags.

Making a rosette

As inspiration, we've taken colours from the four visiting teams flags (USA, South Africa, Japan and Samoa). As these four teams also represent four continents, and us as the host nation the fifth, expect to see the shapes and colours of the continents featuring too.

Celebrating Rugby!

So to get ahead, we've started on the rosettes which will be displayed in shop windows from Queens Road to The Old Steine.  These larger than life rosettes feature oval centres (of course, because the world's not round, it's oval!), and 300 metres of ribbon to be pleated. Our first batch of red, white and blue are done, with two more colour combinations to come. 

Rosettes ready for the celebrations

They also feature a reminder of The Costume Games - the carnival that will accompany the Tournament weekend in Brighton & Hove, your chance to join in the dressing up!