I carry it in my mobile phone. here, i’ll show you…
I’m racing to get to the technical rehearsal for Access Arts end of year showing at West End. We have just done a rehearsal in my studio on the third floor and everyone else was on their way. I forgot my phone so had to return to Metro Arts and pick it up. As I was coming down the stairs again, a young artist stopped me in the foyer and talked to me. He told me that he had seen our play “HOME” at Queensland Theatre Company (part of the Diva Series 2015) in July and it had affected him enormously. “Let me show you” he said and he pulled out his mobile phone and there in the flap of the phone case was the ticket to HOME. “It reminds me” he said. I was so moved that a show that we produced so affected an audience member that he still carries around the ticket in his phone cover months after the event.
And I thought for a long time as I drove over to West End, parked the car and walked to the hall. I thought
“Margi, if you ever doubt what you are doing, remember this beautiful artist who really understood what you were trying to communicate”.
My message to the beautiful artist who was in the Metro Arts foyer on Saturday:
“Thank you! Thank you for caring enough to show me you cared. Sometimes I have doubts about why I do the work I do and when you are brave enough to say what happened for you, I know that I am brave enough to continue to create work about connection, about belonging and about re-creating who we are becoming and where we are going”.
I love finding old journals. There is always a little magic between the pages...
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Here you will find some more information about this project:
NAME: "My Re-Enchantment Project"
This is a 5 month indwelling of creative practice.
You will create your own project in community with like-minded artists, and at the same time, expose your practice to new ways of seeing.
You will participate in a range of different workshops by leading arts practitioners.
You will engage in Bootcamp writing sessions as well as one-on-one coaching sessions with Dr. Margi Brown Ash.
MY RE-ENCHANTMENT PROJECT IS ABOUT TO BE BEGIN
An image from my play EVE 4change coaching has been operating firstly out of Metro Arts for nearly 2 decades, and now out of Pullenvale, in the leafy western suIt has been very exciting to hear from you all in response to this soon-to-be-realized-project. Just like me (every time I have a major deadline), there are artists out there who seek out consistent support in order to get their work done, and this support goes beyond their director or dramaturg or editor or best friend or supervisor. Someone who is committed to you turning up as your best self and at the same time turning in your best work.
As research, I have been enrolled in four online courses in the last year to suss out what works for me and what doesn't.
I have decided that it is the facilitator's personal interest in the artist and their work that is the magic, not 'one size fits all'. So I think, for this to work, and for it to work impeccably, we need to get to know each other, work together and then have online options when we can't work face to face. This is my preferred way and I hope it sounds good to you.
Our next step, is an email from you to me, expressing why you want to be part of this cohort. I am wanting this project to be accessible, nurturing, exciting, expanding, innovative, crazy-fun and life-changing. I am wanting to dedicate July to December 2020 to this way of being.
Thank you! I so love my community, and at a time when sector support is quite thin on the ground, the work still has to be done, and I am committed to help you do it.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.What if there was a group of artists working at getting a project up and needed some mentoring/coaching support to move towards completion?
This idea has emerged over several years: I have had some big deadlines in the last few years, and so many times I wished-like-crazy that I had a tribe of collaborators who were there, writing alongside me (on different projects usually) on a regular basis. My dream is to set this up for artists: your writing sessions each week would consist of gathering, drinking tea and then settling down to some serious 25-minute stints of writing-5 minute break-25 minutes again and so on. A four hour writing session where I encourage you, and you encourage each other to write, or you may be painting, or choreographing, or researching...the only criteria is that it is creative and that you are keen to finish your project.
Have a read below and if it is of interest, then contact me: send a text or email 4change@iinet.net.au or a PM. Thank you!
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The A-Z of Poses: Asana Guide to Ardha Chandrasana - The BioMedical Institute of Yoga & Meditation
Find out the benefits, Contradictions & Cautions, Preparatory & Counter poses, Variations, Modifications, and tips of the asana pose Ardha Chandrasana.