How’s your weekend going? We have been enjoying the sunshine, and blowing the cobwebs away at one of our favourite places. Meanwhile, here are a few creative things you might enjoy this Sunday:
First: an exhibition. I’m a massive fan of Café Royal Books, and am really looking forward to the celebration of the first 600 books issued by this brilliant small publisher at Stills in Edinburgh
Second, a multidisciplinary creative project. Some of you may have heard my dear friend, Anne Whitehead (seen below in her KDD snood) interviewed on the Today programme last week about her brilliant project exploring how the Angel of The North has become a spontaneous place of remembrance.
Working with her local community in Gateshead and sound artist David de la Haye, Anne is investigating the Angel’s significance as an ad-hoc memorial (a topic you’ll know is of great interest to me, if you’ve read my piece about the painted cave at Davaar island). How do the objects and tokens left at the Angel add to its range of meanings in the landscape? How do such objects channel individual grief and loss? How might such grassroots acts acts re-create and re-make Gormley’s artwork as a site of collective public memory and meaning?
Follow Anne’s blog to learn more about this brilliant project as it unfolds!
Third, a film. Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary The Automat is now available to stream in the UK (on Prime and Apple TV) and I urge anyone in need of cheer in these rather dark days to spend a restorative hour and a half with this celebration of the utopian, beautifully designed and inclusive cafés in Philadelphia and New York where you could get good food and great coffee for the price of a nickel. Who doesn’t want to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Colin Powell enthusing about automats as inclusive and inherently democratic spaces? Or to listen to Mel Brooks singing the song he wrote especially for this documentary?
Fourth and finally, a conversation. Many of you will be signed up for my friend Felix (Felicity) Ford’s Yarnadelic Remixes project: an inspiring, creative and wide ranging exploration of knitting and music which she has been working on with Muriel Pensivy. As part of the Knitalong (and playalong) accompanying the project, Felix and I got together to talk about our favourite cover versions – both musical and knitterly. Read our cover versions conversation here! And find the Yarnadelic Remixes ebook on Ravelry here!
However you are spending it, I hope you have a lovely Sunday!
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