Saturday, October 13, 2012

A little catch up!

It has been hectic in London. There sure is a fast pace and things are changing all the time. I feel I need to offer a little catch up with what has been going down.

So I've been working hard to get into arts and culture not only as a past time but professionally too as I feel I can completely engage with creative people. I love it when something talked about finally becomes a real life thing: born from imagination. I feel London is the time and place to do this and so I've started to volunteer for things to boost my experience and make contacts.

Site Eye -
A time lapse film about the process of preserving skeletons using maggots, shown in 3D

Loki Music -
The Zori Trio play in the wilderness of Ham House



My first event was at Ham House this August and was run by The Young Curators. The National Trust venue is hidden in the trees beside the start of the Themes river, in what feels like the countryside, (I saw cows and fields and boats along the green stretch of the water). The event itself was a series of performance art expressions, workshops, talks, music, comedy and damn right Larkin around! My role on the night meant I could rotate around the different things going on and I had to make narrative photos of the evening. We had splendid weather and everyone who came appeared to thoroughly enjoy the occasion.


Larkin' About - Catherine explains the urgency of finding the remedy to stop the end of time. Visitors ran around like children to find the correct herb combination before the OTHERS catch them

Gypsy themed tunes played by the Kavona duet

KK Sound Archive made illuminating sounds acorss the picnic blankets by plucking at the kora.

A drawing workshop created by Alexa Galea,
entertained children in the cherry garden.
It used fancy dress outfits worn by volunteers
that related to the historical ghosts of Ham House.
Lee Sullivan's print workshop allowed people to create their own personal 3d prints of a selection of objects.
         

Carl Gent performed a solemn and explosive illustration of desecration as he sledgehammered clay at dusk.


A chaser in Larkin' About spies for victims through their monical glass


Click here for more information about National Trust Young Curators or Ham House

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