A Fork in the Road.
Now that funding for this…….whatever it is……..artist residency position….. project based learning opportunity…..community engagement programme or is it just something I wanted to do, has got sponsors, stakeholders and other peoples agendas and money interwoven, I am standing at a fork in the road…..deciding to turn left or right.
Left or right?
Right is the path I have to take.
Along this path lies workshops with people who dont know I am coming their way yet. Along this this path lies public seating, a path which is specific for wheelchair users to experince the woods, with interative features (art) along it. These features will stimulate the senses and target not just wheelchair users, but everyone with a disability or not. Running along this path has to be a blog documenting how these goals/targets and outputs are achieved. A valuable piece of evidence based documentation with feed back built in.
I dont think that blog will be on this site, as what is documented here is not altogether relevant. The new blog (for which I will be paid some relatively modest sum) will be linked to the men who count butterflies website.
Left is the path where the creation myths lay, waiting to be discovered. The Blean men are down there, as well as a woollen calender! Other unknown things are down that pathway. There is no light at the end of that path, no sunny clearings in view. I know ‘pylons’ are down that path somewhere? Giants carrying power. I want to find some stories about these giants down that path.
But I have to turn right.
October Sticks.
The colours in the woods are marvellous.
And it makes you feel that whatever you do is just lightweight in comparison.
So: off to by some chicken wire?
compose an expression of interest.
pay check in bank
juggle dates in my diary
and visit a school this afternoon for another project.
All I really want to do is walk about the woods taking photos.
My Application was Successful
My application to the local City Council for arts funding has been a success. I have signed and exchanged contracts and a condition is to acknowledge the support of the council on all publicity associated with the project by the use of two logos.
So that is actually a right result, and thanks to the Kent Wildlife Trust for input with that. And big thanks to my city council as well.
This project is no longer me just making it up as I go along.
It now has an agreed schedule with defined outputs, performance indicators and feedback mechanisms. I will be furthering the aims of my patron (the men who count butterflies) and working with another stakeholder. So more thanks are in order for; The Friends for Mental Health who will contribute finacialy and have very specific objectives as well. They have not sent me a logo ……niether have The Kent Wildlife Trust I wanted to collect the set and display them like cub scout badges. But hey-ho I’ll get them later.
My next post will be my October Sticks, then we will see what happens after that?
Now to finish this post before I forget: It apears we may have a squirrel living in, or near to our garden. This seems extraordinary considering the level of urban development I live amongst.
In Native American Culture if an animal comes to you it has something to show you, or a lesson to teach you…..so when I have posted this I’m going to google squirrel behaviour and characteristics.
