Friction Arts Presents: Reality Estate.

Images from the rehearsals (no sound)

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A lone trombonist rehearses in Fiveways Island subway.

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Its late at night I’ve had a bob sleigh day – head in one direction and then very fast in another direction.

This week has been amazing.  As a project approaches its peak, there are more cups of tea, more phonecalls, shortcut conversations, a fifth gear approaching, late night thinking – thoughts at the front of your brain that are fed by back-head years of projects and community knowing and not knowing.  The team I work with, put together in a combination of skills and divine instinct knowing how each person rises to their own occasion which all leads to and feeds to the show.

And location, location, location. A tiny heated office in an increasingly cold warehouse which houses us all hot-desks, visitors, flyers, show gismos, printer feeding a thousand envelopes… I don’t think I’ve ever signed so many letters – I feel like the queen. Yes, more time consuming than a photocopied letter – but its all in the detail at the end of the day – so if you write to someone you should write to them and sign the letter!  Location.. in the midst of a email buried brain I sneak upstairs for a cigarette – the roof of our new HQ hosts the greatest cityscape skyline. The clouds offering ever evolving magnificence – if you don’t stare at a horizon at least once a week you can get folded by work.

So in a nutshell this week – the women take the show over with Mark,  national press, bbc, beautiful Simon images, Sanj detail, Emily order, George darkness, Nicola clarity, Lee lone wolf, Simon P license to play, firecrackers and youth in Auchinleck Square, … Developers closing in.

Bullet points

So, the countdown is on and I want a thank you to an amazing team. We are on target and plenty of detail and gaps still to be delivered.

see you soon

Sandra

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Reality Estate composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven, shares his expertise in vocal range and pitch

The choirs warm up:

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Only a few weeks to go and rehearsals are getting started.

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Choir members give impressions on the project so far:

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Artist John Row captures views from people passing through Five Ways. These are instantly recorded and will then be tranlated into a poem.

The end result will be part of the Reality Estate performance.

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One of the participants tells us her thoughts on the project.

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In a video from a recent workshop, artist Mark Storor explores and interprets perceptions of truth and reality with young people.

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