Keeping What Matters
In the past few days, my social media feed has been lit up with updates from Doorstep as they cautiously, responsibly but so much needed restart their ‘live’ engagement with the community of Torbay. I say restart, but like so many other inspiring and fundamental to peoples lives organisations, Doorstep Arts have continued despite everything to bring creativity….
So Much to Announce
Take a deep breath: awarded the Jerwood Arts Development Bursary, recording Hanging Around and promoting the work, designing the new website, developing the new name, planning for the future, reflecting on the past, adapting to the web, subverting the lockdown, general activism, devising over Zoom and much more…
Working with Nat and the Amazing Result
Having quality time to work with Nat has been a revelation - thank you, Torbay Culture for the awarding of the Great Place Scheme Professional Development Bursaries
Bitesize
Yeah a little later than promised, but here is Sophie's wonderful, powerful and fiery blog post. Part of the humungous blog, a couple of months ago now, which reflected on YMMV as a whole, we wanted to repost it. The wording definitely deserves to stand alone. After this blast from the past, I have scrawled a quick update in these very strange times.
A Huge Achievement
How do you go about evaluating and reflecting on such an awesome achievement as You, Me and My Voice 2019 was... more to the point how do you go about thanking everyone involved? From mastermind Natalie Palin to get stuck in there Jennifer Noice’s practical experience, thanks might pop up a lot through this blog and actually, through my everyday living for a very long time! Time to put our feet up and celebrate!
Midish project report to the Arts Council
Please don't let the slightly formal title put you off - although I do hope the midish word softens you in! I hope you find this blog as playful as the others, whilst serving a purpose/to inform - mirroring the piece itself...
On The Road
The performance at the Exeter Phoenix was wonderful, humble, slick and well-received from a paying audience... and was only the second time we'd ever run the whole piece from start to finish.