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#BeStillMcr by @PassionArtTrail #Questionnaire

I would really appreciate your help in completing a short questionnaire (12 questions, 5 minutes) around the Passionart Trail. The questionnaire is designed partly to provide information to the Passionart project, and partly to demonstrate to my students the positive uses to which market research can be put.

On Qu 1, if you are under 16, or Qu 2, you have never been to Manchester/don’t plan to in next 12 months, thank you, but you do not fit our target audience for this questionnaire.

What is PassionArt?

The PassionArt Trail is a visual arts pilgrimage hosted by six key cultural venues across the city of Manchester during the season of Lent 10th Feb – 2nd April 2016. Host venues are Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Cathedral, The John Rylands Library, St Ann’s Church, St Mary’s RC Church and Ziferblat, a social space in the Northern Quarter. Work will include Julian Stair’s ceramic exhibition ‘Quietus’, and feature work by Micah Purnell, conceptual public artist. You can find out more by visiting www.passionart.guide, or searching #BeStillMcr on Twitter, but for a brief description read:

Passionart: BE STILL (2016) celebrates the ancient Christian festival of Lent through the mindful reflection of art in six of Manchester’s most iconic venues. Contemporary installations, paintings, sculpture and live performances by internationally renowned and local artists uncover moments where the sacred inhabits the ordinary. Seeking silence and stillness in a busy city is a spiritual exercise that all can explore, religious or secular. The art trail can be walked as a full days pilgrimage or each venue discovered as a single reflection in a lunch hour. Personal meditations from people of all walks of life around the theme of stillness can be found on our websites 40 days page, one for everyday of the season, to aid you in your Lenten journey.

The Questionnaire

This questionnaire is designed to collect data as to public attitudes regarding mindfulness – including ‘being still’, peace and spirituality, during the season of Lent. The questionnaire is quick to complete, comprising only 12 questions, and will inform our decision making as to how we publicise the event, as well as used to teach marketing students at Manchester Metropolitan University and any related publication/dissemination activities. Data collected is anonymous.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire (not open to those under 16).

40 Days

I have also written a piece for ’40 Days of Reflections’, reflecting upon mindfulness, rest and the faith journey … and a trip to Doubtful Sound in New Zealand. I look forward to reading the rest when Lent starts February 10th 2016.

By admin

Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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