Encounters’ Shop in Dewsbury

Pro-active engagement

Encounters devised a series of interventions around the town centre to engage with people and draw them into the shop, as well as mentoring five local artists to devise their own.

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Lost and found dragons on Spirit night in Dewsbury To engage people before the shop was officially open, we set up an intervention on Spirit night - an outdoor spectacle event - to draw some of the 1,000s of attenders into the shop. We invited people to return lost dragons hidden around Dewsbury to the Encounters shop. People who returned a dragon were asked to select two dragon powers they needed in life as a reward, and chalk a response on the blackboard to 'What's the Spirit of Dewsbury?'.

Lost chicks returned to the nest An invitation to return a lost chick to the Encounters shop and be rewarded. People returning the chicks hidden round town became the parent of the chick after selecting a name, qualities they needed to be a good parent, and making a real nest for it.

Sow a Seedling for World Environment Day An invitation to plant seedlings sown in the shop by people of Dewsbury, into our planters on the pavement outside the shop, and write on a stick one intention to change something in your daily life to live more sustainably.