Shorty is turning 41!
So my year of being 40 is almost over – tomorrow at 7.13am, I turn 41 – and on the whole (national and international politics aside) it’s been a good one. I started it by [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
In anxiety, Art, counselling, documentation, Ellie Harrison, memory, mental health, Ritual, smell, Transformation, University
Posted From the Ashes – a ritual
Last night I undertook a full moon ritual. I had asked around to find a cleansing ritual and this was sent to me. I have never done anything quite like this before and I wasn’t sure what to [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
In Art, audience interaction, Compass Live Art, creativity, Intimacy, Leeds, performance, relationships, Theatre, workshops
Posted Walking towards a more positive future
I spent yesterday evening in a workshop with Rosana Cade ahead of the performances of Walking:Holding at Compass Live Art Festival this weekend. It couldn’t be more timely. I came away with [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
In Art, arts cuts, creativity, Devoted and Disgruntled, funding, Leeds, Open Space Technologies, performance, performance making, playing, West Yorkshire Playhouse
Posted An invitation
I was asked to write an invitation for Devoted & Disgruntled’s event in Leeds this coming week. So I did. It comes from a place of worrying that we just keep talking to the same people [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
In ARC Stockton, Art, audience interaction, Bridging the Gap, Newcastle, One, performance, performance making, The Reservation
Posted One (week today)
By this time next Thursday I will have finished my last performance of One and be on my way home from Stockton. (I say it is the last… It is the last one that I know about at the moment. I [...]
By Jaye_Kearney
Posted If you cut us, do we not bleed?
So Newcastle Council have announced a proposal to cut 100% of their arts funding… This news sends chills down my spine. That a city that has had culture at the heart of it’s massively [...]
