I was starting to think we wouldn’t be able to go ahead with the Christmas Market, but we’ve been kindly offered the use of St. Mary Le Wigford church for the purpose. We’re still on the lookout for another empty shop space in Lincoln, and we have a man on the case, so let’s hope we can find our own space sometime soon.
Meanwhile, somehow, we managed to make it to The Art Party Conference last weekend, and have added the events to this blog: http://lincolnartistnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/
and which I mostly copied and pasted to my own blog here http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-art-party-conference.html
I spotted ex-Boston college lecturer and local artist Andy Black there, but unfortunately didn’t get a chance to speak to him – at that moment, Bob And Roberta Smith appeared, and ushered us to go and see Michael Grove MP. During my Foundation, it was Andy that organised a project to write manifestos. I have no idea if I still have the one I made all that time ago, if I’d known Airspace gallery would ask us to write some, then I’d have forgotten to dig it out….
I’ve never really been to a conference where I wasn’t a delegate, and had expenses paid before. We paid £5.50 to get in, petrol to get there, food wasn’t free either, only the lovely cake at AIRtime, and we had no budget to stay at a hotel, so we left to return to Lincoln around 9.30p.m. before the actual party started.
I made sure that I wrote on the feedback form “pay artists to attend as delegates”.
