Firstly, thanks to artist Janine Everitt for the kind permission to use her image ‘Unbound’ which shouted KlangHaus Darkroom to me since I first caught sight of it….it made me gasp.
Well, what a journey! We are taking our environmental show, Darkroom to COP26 in Glasgow. For three years we have been planning and trying different routes through various funders: the government route, Arts Council, Creative Scotland, UCL, university research funds. The last ‘no’ came on Monday 18th October. Most of the ‘no’s came with a ‘Sorry, our hands are tied, but you must try and get to COP’. We turned to the Norwich Arts Centre, who had been waiting in the wings to supplement a bigger funder….we both said ‘Let’s just do it!’
We will be performing at Listen Gallery in Glasgow from Monday November 8th-13th daily 1pm -8pm. here is an Eventbrite link
We are thrilled to make the journey to COP. My bursary from A-N was travel expenses to get to Glasgow to have meetings with the arts community to get to COP26. I had two failed trips, first was cancelled by all of us being in lockdown in April 2020. Second was May 2021 and Glasgow was literally the only place in the UK to be in lockdown and again my tickets were cancelled. I finally set foot in Glasgow last Friday on a recce of Listen Gallery…. it was well worth the wait!
Accommodation during COP feels heaven sent, a friend’s niece’s neighbour is putting us up, whilst she moves into her living room. Generosity of spirit abounds. We have asked our supporters and community to donate towards the show if they can and we have raised enough funds to cover basic costs, we can get there, we can eat, whoop!
A huge thanks to all who are helping/supporting/following. We’ll be posting on all available outlets ( so wish there was a good wholesome platform in social media land…tell me if I’m missing something)
See you on the other side!
