I've just been invited by BBC Radio Norfolk to go into the studio on Friday afternoon for an interview about Festial's progress. This is likely to be the result of their having received the latest edition of Kalender (one of the 30 I posted to galleries/media) which by my reckoning will have arrived with them on the day they phoned me. So, that counts as a good result, promotionally speaking!
By complete coincidence, Friday is also the date of next festival I'll be marking in the project – Candlemas. That's fine, though, as I can go up to St Andrew's in the morning to do whatever I'm going to do (she said mysteriously – or is it just that further planning is required?!)
Something that I really need to do is to contact my Arts Council case officer to see if I can arrange a meeting. When I first planned Festial, I envisaged making lots of work during the year in addition to compiling and distributing Kalender. In practice, Kalender has been 'the work' in itself, and thinking of it in that way has been the only way to retain my/our sanity. That means that I don't have a physical body of work to curate into an exhibition at the end of the year, which is Phase 3 of the project according to the Arts Council funding I was awarded. There are plenty of ideas I want to develop, but having got to the ninth festival of the twelve, I need to work out what to do next.
Oh yes, I meant to mention a new improvement to the website – an aerial map showing the location of Wood Dalling with a link enabling anyone to discover how far they are from St Andrew's!
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