Me and Kim V Porcelli in the spot light at Shed-Crewger night
Crewger night was magical in The Shed. It is amazing what Elizabetta has done with that warehouse… it was one of those great great parties… where you meet artists without meeting assholes…. rare..
My two friends did their thing, Kathleen O’Rourke with her comedy partner, Gearoid Farrelly - and Clodagh Downing.. It was great. Myself and Kim V Porcelli played really well to finish off the night - so I’m really happy with the energy of the music at the moment. It’s really growing..
Most importantly we had our first film screening. Me, Pauline and Eimear - what Fiodor calls, ‘Girls Power,’ - it was great. Like I know we’re all only learning - and some people had some faults with it - but the magic of having it up there was great. I’ll put it up on the site so you can see it, flaws and all - its kind of niaive medieval icon drama - but it has its vision - and that will only grow as we learn to use our tools.
I find you just keep learning by doing - or as a robert frost said ‘we learn by going where we have to go,’ that’s really true for me at the moment - I’m learning by going where the art is taking me - where I have to follow or deny existence/
A friend said once to me recently - you’re like a one woman art movement. I feel like that. It’s a joke but it’s somehow true for me at the moment. There’s a great creative force of fun, integrity, passion, courage and intelligence declaring itself in me - and I just have to go with it. Life is not about finding a comfortable luxurious place to stay still - it’s about declaring life in the struggle and tension of things. There is the healing - the flame of peace in the eye of stormy weather.
I’m creating a new show for this year’ s electric picnic and the dublin fringe called, ‘Declaring the Revolution of Cabaret.’ Currently writing this - afterwards will return to screenplay - and have plans in the summer for painting. From August to september will be gigging the Cabaret revolution, recording an album, rehearsing, - then in October I can return to writing… It’s very dynamic but not exhausting…
Really enjoying it -and surrounded by exciting daring people! Congrats to Brendan of Crewger for finding Elizabetta’s shed, this is going to be a really really great monthly new departure in the independent dublin film making… Let’s just enjoy the magic of the first innocent early days…
love to you all, rose xxx
