| We have set up a showing for Sunday 5 June. The performers from Body and Soul will create a piece through dialogic devising - we had rehearsal on Friday, one more next Friday and then a longer workshop on Sunday before the performance. Meanwhile we need to get the videos, soundscape and weaving installation to a presentable state. We feel like we have been here long enough to really settle in and benefit from the residency - and there is only a week left. We really won't be able to visit Melbourne properly, which is a shame as it is, from Jo's memory of her time there 30 years ago, a wonderful city. At most we will have one day there. I point out that we did spend time in national parks but, there is always something more that we should have done. On Sunday we went to Heyfield for their community bank's 15 year anniversary celebration in the park. The bank is locally run and channels money back into the community - over a million dollars in 15 years. There was free sausage and fried onion on white bread - apparently very typical of Australia - barbecued by the local Lions Club. Bank board members giving out free swag - I took a stubby holder to match the one I got from the Cowwarr Saints footy club. Michèle, who is president of the bank board, had her ballet and jazz groups perform on the grass. It was cold when the clouds covered the sun but it was a pleasant day. On the drive back to Cowwarr the police had set up a breath analyzer check-point. As I hadn't had anything to drink I passed. Five young artists/gallery curators came for a visit and we had a wonderful afternoon/evening culminating in some delicious hearty meals at the Pub. |