The last day of BTT. Families come. The studio shows what was built - not as a polished performance, but as a real glimpse of who they've become. The lip dub plays. The Studio Contract gets read and signed. And then - the moment that makes this exhibition different from any other - every learner takes their own family to their own station and walks them through their own six weeks. No guide presents anything. They've been led for six weeks. Today they lead.
The Week 6 day pages are the schedule for Exhibition week - not this page. This page describes what Exhibition is; Week 6 Day 5 holds the actual run of the morning with times against it, and Days 1-4 hold the build-up.
The one thing worth repeating here, because it's the commonest way this goes wrong: the Lip Dub is filmed on Thursday of Week 5, not during Exhibition week. Week 6 is deliberately slack so that a problem with the film costs a Quest block rather than the Exhibition.
Exhibition is 45 minutes and three movements - the Contract, the lip dub, and the launches. Families arrive at 9:15.
Each learner reads one line of the Contract aloud. The guide reads the last line. Then every learner signs in front of their family. The Contract goes on the wall.
The video plays. Families see the studio in motion - every learner, every corner of the space, one continuous shot.
Every learner at once, each with their own family at their own station. Not a presentation and not a facilitated discussion - a guided tour of six weeks, given by the person who did it.
The last fifteen minutes, and the part families remember. Each learner takes their own family to their own station and walks them through their own work. Not a presentation and not a facilitated discussion - a guided tour of six weeks, given by the person who did it.
Everybody moves at once. Conversations happening simultaneously around the room, which sounds chaotic and is exactly right - it means nobody is performing for an audience and every family gets the undivided version.
Each learner works from what they wrote on the Monday of Week 6 and practiced aloud with a partner on the Tuesday. Three things: what I made, what was hardest, what changed about me. That draft is why this works; a learner who hasn't written it stands beside their boat photo saying "yeah, that's my boat."
The v1-beside-v2 pairs do most of the work. A parent can see the change without anyone explaining it, which frees the learner to talk about the interesting part rather than the obvious one.
For these fifteen minutes the guide has one job and it is to be unavailable. If a parent catches your eye, redirect them to their child. The commonest way this goes wrong is a well-meaning guide explaining a learner's work while the learner stands next to them.
Two things worth watching for, though: a learner whose family didn't come (paired with another family, agreed days ago, never discovered on the morning), and a station nobody has visited. Both are quiet problems and both are fixable in thirty seconds if you're watching for them.
Reading from the card is fine. Say so to the whole studio in the morning, so it isn't anyone's special arrangement.