Its been a full week.
Culturefeast in Stockport has now finished. The project emcompassed three different strands in total – From working with Cheadle writers group, to creative workshops with the public and window art work, which drew (no pun intended) upon the imaginative and performative – two areas I'm very comfortable in.
The project has been immense for me, I have utilised previous learning from projects, learnt what to do, what not to, levelled the expectations and thrown every ounce of energy I had at the project. Its hard to define the success of a project, attendance to workshops could have been better, I would have liked to have shared knowledge and learning with more folk, nonetheless the people who did get involved with the workshops tended to stay for hours and the level of creativity and concentration was amazing. Public participation was a hugely enriching part of the project.
My heart lay with the window drawing…what started off as illustrations for the writers work morphed into other imaginative territory of teapots and fish, cakes and animals, a weird and wonderful world of some cafe and imaginary space.
The writers illustrations will be complied into books to rest and be with their words ….it seems a fitting space for memoir work ….to be completed this week…
The installed book pages will be shipped off to the Liverpool Artists book fair (20th and 21st June, A-Foundation, Liverpool)
I have been very fortunate to be involved in a project which has been able to incorporate socially engaged practice, learning, site specific work and also to be part of a wider festival seeking to revive and add colour to our regular leisure spaces.
