Super Crazy Busy Week

 

As a freelance, every now and again, work and engagements seem to congregate in the same small corner of the calendar. This week is the culmination of so many months of diverse work and I share not to boast but to encourage those of you working freelance in the arts, that hard work does sometime pay off and offsets the rejections and failed bids for funding.

 

I am learning that finding partners is a key to finding successful projects and I am grateful to all of the partners and organisations that are helping me live the life I have always sought.

 

On Monday and Tuesday I have the privilege of performing at How The Light Gets In Festival at Hay on Wye. A solo show on Monday evening at 7pm and part of an all day Poetry event.

 

https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/all-day-poetry-pass/

 

On Wednesday, I will be working at the Parks Trust helping to promote activities at the MK Rose (more later) and in the evening, I am delighted that one of my short theatre pieces “Walking on Bombshells” will receive its debut by the wonderful Carabosse Theatre Company at their Real Ale and Drama Shots night alongside six other new theatre pieces. There is a run from Wednesday to Saturday at the Buszy in Milton Keynes

 

http://www.carabosse.co.uk/current_projects.html

 

On Thursday evening, I will be reading at the opening of an exhibition called Here I am at the chapel in Milton Keynes Hospital for Arts on Prescription. I have conducted workshops with a group from a retirement village around the theme of the five senses of memory and some of the poems will be part of the exhibition.

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/929160827141300/

 

On Saturday evening, I will be singing with Heart and Music, the choir at a concert to celebrate the 200^th anniversary of Newport Pagnell Methodist Chapel. I also do a short poetry set as part of the concert.

 

http://mkmethodist.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Heart-and-Music-poster-flyer-final.jpg

 

Finally, to round off a wonderfully varied week, I am reading a commissioned poem as part of the Motus Dance Company project Response. This is a site-specific dance project starting at the MK Gallery and finishing at the MK Rose in Campbell Park. As to whether I end up taking part in the Dance, you will just have to turn up and see!

 

http://motusdancefestival.wix.com/motusdancefestival#!sunday31/c1gzi

 

Have a great week yourself and hopefully see you at an event.

 

Keep writin’ and recitin’

 

Mark x