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As part of York St John University’s Graduate Showcase Festival, Create ’12, I will be performing “Days Like These”.

So if you missed out the first time, make sure you catch it this time. It really is rather good!

Tickets are free and can be booked here

“Days Like These”
6pm – Monday 21st May
Arts Workshop. York St. John University

Left Luggage will be part of the very exciting, ‘Little Festival of Everything’, at the Fauconberg Arms in Coxwold, 25th – 27th November. Organised by the rather lovely ‘Flanagan Collective‘. More details to come.

Couldn’t resist that title as it flowed off my finger tips onto the screen… no delete button for that instant outpouring.

I’ve been in the studio re-membering Underwear as part of my current research which I’m calling ‘Make again. Make new.’ Its been an interesting few hours and it was good to get started, starting is hard and looking back feels hard to do as well…. but as I noted in my journal, process is messy and hard and difficult, these are the signs that it is a process and so it’s necessary otherwise something may well be wrong.. best not worry and just accept mistakes will be made.

Thinking of archive and archaeology, wondering what a museum exhibition of Underwear would look like, can I dig back past the layers of time and re-present for us to explore then, now.

It’s August.

I promised myself July off, which I did to some extent. I performed in a children’s theatre piece at a festival near Birmingham. Does that count as working?

I keep thinking about trains. About trains and suicide. About the ripple effect of the attempt to end a life that results in delayed trains. The end of one life, ‘the incident’, results in a thousand others missing connections, returning home late, not reaching that interview.

I keep thinking about what happens when you leave the luggage on a platform and get on a train. Where do you go when you’re ready to move on?

I keep thinking that I’d like to blow the dust off ‘underwear’ and re-discover what it meant and might mean now – would you like to watch?

After yesterday’s little success of managing to navigate the big bad world of the internet I’m planning to dedicate at least most of the rest of the day to re-working my CV, finishing the webpages here and then applying for some funding and performance opportunities. I’ve also an ambitious plan to make a roast dinner, get to homebase, mow the lawn, repot some plants and write a research proposal for the final slog of my MA….hmmm something’s going to have to give and I’ve a feeling it won’t be the roast dinner.