September Newsletter
Nothing much to say up here other than that (a) I'm nearly done pulling all the pieces together for the next project I'll do with Sideshow, (b) I'm likewise closing in on actually finishing and publishing an article (!!!), (c) I have the itchy feeling that I want to redesign the site again, so maybe that'll happen soon.
Also not so much happening in September, but turn your eyes at least to the Out There Festival in Great Yarmouth, where a full programme of outdoor work is complimented by a smaller selection of shows at St George's Theatre and Great Yarmouth Hippodrome. If there's a lull in the festival action I can also recommend Time and Tide Museum for vital information on herring fishing (I enjoyed myself) and you can always exact revenge on my behalf by winning at the seafront claw machines (I'd like the stuffed penguin in the sunglasses, please). Then in Sweden there's a new circus festival, called Nycirkusfestival (guess the translation), happening right now, which is just one of the activities spanning Umeå's time as prom queen / European Capital of Culture. A couple of familiar shows in the programme but pleased to see Glitch in there as well – playing tonight actually. When I saw a twenty minute presentation of it as part of Subcase in February it was in a small studio on the Cirkör premises, and I hope the artist will again be able to secure a venue where he can harass and abrade the collective psyche of his audience so effectively. Probably best not to say what happens exactly, but you could draw it as two very clean, precise graphs, one for mood and one for pace, which you traverse in an inevitable pattern. You go in, you go down, you go up, you go out. In some respects it was the emotional equivalent of doing weights and then hitting the showers. Everyone had something to say about it.
John
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