Hi, I'm Josh, and my Thursdays are more amazing than yours, because I spend them at the FREEWORD Centre, sourge of trees and coffee beans everywhere!
You can be almost as awesome if you came down to their festival and check their free events
Almost, I said. But not quite as amazing. Here's Y.
PROOF NUMBER 1!!
I wake up at eleven pm.
PROOF NUMBER 2!!!
I walked past this on road to work.
PROOF NUMBER THREE
This used to be a school Playground.
I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY'RE MAKING. FOR SHAME.
PROOF NUMBER 4
I took a picture of this on my way to work.
PROOF NUMBER FIVE!
I meet Carol Dixon.
This is Carol Dixon
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Carol Dixon should change her surname to Awesome, because she works for BookTrust. It's an organistation that gives books away to kids and families.
That's it.
She gets books, she gives them to kids in primary, pre-school, kids in foster homes, and their respective households; so long as Johnny/Janet Justbeenborn is on the national register, he/she's getting free door stops. Books designed for them, 'course. No point sending 120 Days of Sodom to a toddler, is there? No there isn't. No there isn't. No, No, No.
All this just to get people reading. It's free, and legal. Pretty much a govt funded PirateBay, or a Socialist Santa. Plus! She's a totally pleasant person to hang about to boot. Why isn't anyone mentioning outfits like this in the news? or for adults? Maybe I'm just a little touched by the whole Turn-School-Playground-Into-Grey-#-555-!-!-!; I think this is wicked.They've got some events going on this year, and some Andrew Motion Shenanegans happening next, and I think -the grand thinker that I am- that they are worth checking out. Click Here.
PROOF NUMBER FINALE!
I end my work day,
!!!
MY WORK DAY!
watching two five minute plays and a discussion panel, all organised by INDEX ON CENSORSHIP.
The first play's done in big hall room. Someone stuck a bed-bunk in the centre of the room and we all had to gather round it, whilst the actors pretended we weren't there watching like kids making a circle round a playground fight.
And yes, it ended with a fight.
from the way the actors dressed I could happily pretend it was some kind of prison, tho I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong. I'm always wrong. It's a good place to be. I think it was written by Vaclav Havel, czech playwright. DO NOT LOOK AT ME, I JUST RECENTLY GOOGLED HIM. I think it was about bullying/racism/dehumanisation, but I might be wrong. It seemed a little forced. Alright acted, a little forced.
Would some one hate me if I said a couple of actors slept through it?
We retreated into the main theatre space. Next up was a short play by Beckett.
No, that's not a camera trick, it was a lot more interesting than the first play. And I'm not going to explain it to you. Yes I am. The guy in the suit was The Director. The girl his Assistant, and the spooky fella in the background The Subject. Director would make Assistant reconfigure Subject, who was standing on a box, Abu Gharib Style: raise hands, take off hat, stand on one foot, recite Obama's inaugural speech backwards. It seemed to be for some 'show' Obviously, both Director and Assistant could not give a hooters about Subject. Assistant did care a little, but she didn't go all hollywood and try to 'save him/her soul.' She stayed British and thought about her job. GO BECKETT!
I would guess the theme of this play was also dehumanisation, which, considering my mind is a 2+2=4 kinda vehicle, wouldve led me to believe the discussion panel that came afterward would be discussing the themes germinating from the play.
No, three men talked about eastern europe a lot.
I dunno, they did exactly what was advertised in the program, but I guess having seen two plays dealing the treatment of people/racism/humiliation I found a chat about the political fortunes of eastern europe a little anti-climatic. Especially since everyone on the panel seemed to be agreeing with each other,
But then, maybe I'm just wrong. Feel Free to Disagree.
Yay
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