Let The Wild Rumpus Start!

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Let The Wild Rumpus Start!.

See Geraldine’s blog above about our wonderful day exploring Where the Wild Things Are. The greatest day, full of joy! This, is what I want my life to be: I felt like a pro in being silly and it even came from being silly, it came from a chance meeting in a bar and jumping on an opportunity!

Jumping was a big part of my day, cheekiness was a big part: being WILD! Permission to be wild is rarely given in western education: favourite words from my childhood being “shussh… quiet… listen” being seen and not heard, whereas we blew our voices out with the 3-5’s us being wild and sill gave the children the permission to rebel against the establishment: to scream in school, to try to scare a grown up! So often we choose adult sounds, aesthetics, spaces against places where children have choice to disrupt the norm- this active frenzy was totally political and engaging in children’s culture

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Another day, Another revelation about my life

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Another day, Another revelation about my life.

Check out Hannah’s responce to the Serious Play conference here above- I have took a while to process my thoughts about the conference:

My main thought about the conference was that it showed a wonderful series of examples of play practices and places going in the world however the information was not disseminated in an enabling  way, although is that the job of a conference to enable people? Is that training? Is a conference a place to inspire? Is it possible to create conferences that do both? The people at the front line of play lies in family and carers? How can silliness, play, improvisation be brought to the forefront of societies values?

I am really in a place of privilege having had the conversations before in a more satisfying way than at this conference, I really understand the need to be silly, to play: How do I as an artist create a feeling of play and creation in those around me?

Child’s play: why you’re never too young for the theatre

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Lyn Gardner in the The Guardian this week….”These shows remind us that play is at the heart of theatre, that audience members are genuine collaborators, and that the show cannot go on without us. All theatremakers would do well to remember that. When done well, these shows demonstrate that audiences are never too young for theatre, or to have their curiosity and imaginations inspired.”

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Reflect, Art Works styleee

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So this is a art works way to document what you know is good practice as an artist and what your aspirations are for your work- so here is mine!

It was really great to be at the art works conference, to gather some ideas on practice in social settings, ask some questions of myself and others:

  • What is your larger narrative – the big story that gives meaning to your work?
  • What is the social significance of your work?
  • Why do you do it?
  • What does it mean to be an artist working in participatory settings?
  • How do we maintain our integrity when working in participatory settings?
  • What do you do to be a sound, ethical and relevant practitioner?

One of the surprising things that Chip McNeal of the Francisco Ballet talked about is spirituality: