Lazy Summer Days

I am so glad that the summer is here. Summer I mean as in calender wise, not weather wise. But I won't spend time talking about the rain as it will only get me depressed. But, yes, during these summer days of longer day light hours and carefree abandonment, things do shift into a slower more relaxed pace. And I'm happy about that, as the last few months have been hectic to say the least. But a lot of good things have come from this high activity.
Masquerade is one such event that came about from much industry from Maggie Tate and Ernest Young. I was just a long for the ride. One person who fed back on the night at the Sage said that the flyers that went out were not a true reflection of what happened on the night. They were blown away by the performance, the last one in three, which started at The Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle and Temple Park, leisure centre, South Shields. People in the audience were moved to tears as they were taken back in time, with the help of archival evidence found in the Lit and Phil and the local collections as the City library, to the slave ship, auction, plantation life and abolition movement.
There were national reference points, but the majority of the piece was based on the North East connections. My creative pieces were put to drum and percussion soundscapes and choral singing, as three South Tyneside schools were involved. These were nights to be proud of, as these were collaborations across the whole spectrum of the North East community, young, old, black and white. It was amazing, so much so that there had to be a higher being involved in the process, in order to create such a wonderful piece of creativity shared.
Now people are asking, what next?
I say lazy summer days as the schools break up and I, still in teacher mode, follow the call of the final bell and rest for the next 6 or 8 weeks.
Don't expect any updates during August. See you back here in September.
Enjoy the summer.