Post St Davids Day life quietens down for the month of March, Jamie is off on holiday and I will head out to Kuwait to pack down our acts and bring the team home. Its a chance to take stock, refine the new acts and get them on the website. Good bye world, we shall see you in April.
A week of two halves
As Team Kuwait passed the half way point on their epic desert run, our UK operation geared up for the half term week. Teddy and Otto made four appearances at Centre Parcs and joined the staff party of Oval Space in London. Meanwhile Aurelious and Epico took their show to the Norwich Dragon Festival, with performances on the Chapelfield Plain. Jamie even found time to modify Epico's mechanics....a good week!
NPT Arts
Creature Encounter spent two days working with 6 classes of children to help NPT Arts celebrate 10 years of community events. In those 10 years the Community Arts Team have delivered projects to 30,000 people. I still remember the times when visiting artists came to my school hall to share their world, their experience shaped my perception of what was possible. There is a direct line between those experiences and the day my Father came home from fixing the switch board at film studio, telling us around the dinner table "that some people just play for a living." Across a lifetime these references build to create a belief, in the possibility of picking up a thread of interest and following it doggedly to create a career. I want offer the children we speak to, the sense of credible possibility that meeting a practising artist professional can instil. Because if I had not believed it was possible, I would have given up long before I made it a reality and I only knew it was possible when those arts professionals visited my school. From that point on every artist I met became an example, and every one who had packed their dreams away to enter the "real world" became a warning. Community arts projects changed my life because they showed me that "unique is always valuable," which is never more true than in times of economic uncertainty.
Snow Dome
Whilst Team Kuwait continue their residency at P2BK and the Remal International Festival, our UK operations remain open for business. Next week sees us in Wales helping NPT Arts celebrate 30 years of community projects. The following week is the February half term and finds Teddy & Otto resident at the various Centre Parc sites, whilst Epico & Aurelious swoop into Norwich on the 22nd.
UK bookers please note, despite our globe trotting adventures we remain as ever, at your service!