I went down to Abbyfield House today to have a quick chat with some of the people down there. It was an interesting conversation as the house is in a state of change - the council have put a new roof on it and made it weather proof but there isn't any funding to do much more. We had an interesting conversation about forward planning - having been involved in a few properties that were been used as meanwhile spaces I was thinking about the importance of having 6 month plan rather than a five year plan. It ias quite liberating to think about the short term and not worry to much about the long term.
This is something we have talked about on and off for a while - how it is much better not to see things as long term but recognise long term potentials and the fact that things can grow and evolve - like the Ruskin Studio at SOAR works or the drawing classes. I'm not sure if it was in our Poly-technic Manifesto but there is maybe something we should say about this as an ethos or at least a little mantra - it's a bit small change - the weight of the future o0f expectations stopping us taking action in the present.
Anyway I bumped into Patrick Amber who was fresh from making giant puppets for a festival with Tissue and willow and we talked about doing something in the park next year. I think I might have volunteered to be on the Friends of the house group- I said I would look into doing an awards for all where we have a laturn parade and a projection on the side of the house - maybe later in the year.
This reminded me of our questions - Art is not doing enough - what can I do here ? or something like that - how can we make what we do for the house useful on the terms of where it is - what it needs. Clearly we can't do much but we can do something and it would be nice if that something counted.
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