Seeing The World As It Could Be Otherwise: A glimpse into the Seventh International Teaching Artist Conference in Auckland, New Zealand with Samantha and Walter.
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1. If you are going to get stuck in the middle of a project at the beginning of a pandemic it is really great to be stuck with your friends. I had so many incredible conversations with so many great artists throughout several postponements and hiccups and we stuck it out together boosting each other up when it was needed.
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So, I just opened the journal I started in 2016 to see what my thought process was when we started ‘Wandering with Wonder’ and I found a dead mosquito. That must have meant I was writing in my journal outside, which is perfect because the goal of this project was to create a multi-disciplinary work, including many musical genres, that was inspired by the land, the sky and the water. The goal was not to kill mosquitos.
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Who shapes you and who do you learn from?
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“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” James M. Barrie
Oh James M. Barrie, I think you knew of what you wrote in Peter Pan.Right now, I think we are all feeling a little dubious about flying and I don't mean the kind of flying where you get in an airplane and land somewhere delicious.
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2021 you sly little fox. We all knew going into this year it was going to be a tricky one. The pandemic is in full swing still in most parts of the world and no one knows when it will go back to some sort of normalcy.
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“What we place our attention on expands in our lives and our intention for the object of our attention will orchestrate the forces of the Universe to support our desired result.” Deepak Chopra
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Reimagining is what artists are really good at. Right now, I am working on an amazing artistic project, "Wandering with Wonder" that is inspired by the land. Our goal with this project is to create a multi-disciplinary work held together by a newly composed soundscape that will be performed on the land.
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So, I read something on Facebook yesterday that made me cry and I am not one who easily cries. Who am I kidding everything seems to make me cry these days! It was written by a woman from Beirut Lebanon whose name is Alaa Hujazi who, according to her post, is a trauma psychologist. I will probably never meet her but her words seemed to be written for me to read.
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When I was a student fresh out of graduate school my Mom got me a job counting dead bark beetles in a lab at the University of Calgary working for Dr. Bill Laidlaw. She told me I only had to work for a week and if I didn't like it after a week I could quit. I remember thinking if this is what a Master's Degree in Trumpet performance leads to then I must have really taken a wrong turn somewhere in life.
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This last weekend was the Vic Lewis Band Festival, a three-day, non-competitive music festival in the Rocky Mountains with the mandate to provide an opportunity for youth who want to express themselves artistically, expand their musical education and skills, meet like-minded people, and make lasting connections with their peers and mentors.
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Creativity is work. It is the work I live for but it is still work. Sometimes the work flows and sometimes it consists of staring at a blank page for hours until you realize pulling out crayons and drawing what you are thinking might be a better use of your time.
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Update: Due to Covid 'Wandering with Wonder' has been postponed until September 2021 - Stay tuned for updates. I am very excited to announce that one year from today on Saturday, September 19, 2020 we will be launching a new project: “Wandering With Wonder” at the Leighton Arts Centre just south of Calgary. This project will be an immersive outdoor musical storytelling experience with original live and recorded music, spoken word, puppetry and dance.
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