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Figures, Sculpture and Cakes

You’ll know my glass angels are in a pop-up gallery at the moment. Here is another section of the exhibition. I love these two pieces.

Made by Ann Butland

Yesterday we went to another exhibition, The Village.

My choir leader, Claire Ingleheart composed the music and put together the sounds – bird song, voices and music. There were short films, photographs and small sculptures and the whole effect was very moving and a reminder of the bleakness and the anxiety of the lockdowns. This was balanced by the positivity of some of the contributors, including one of our own LiveWires. It was delightful to hear her voice around us as we examined the exhibits.

By Trish O’Shea

We were so busy yesterday that I didn’t have time to make my usual Coffee Cake for today’s Redruth Market so this morning, I made a dozen Coffee Cupcakes. I was in such a hurry to get them to the market that I forgot to take a photo. Believe me when I say they were very beautiful with piped coffee cream. These are the roughly iced ones I kept for us!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 6, 2021 in art, Photography, Postaday2021, sculpture, sewing

Tags: Ann Butland, Simon Birch dance, The Village project, Trish O'Shea

Shoreline at Kynance Cove

13 Jul

Two more wonderful and very moving performances of the Shoreline production, this time at Kynance Cove, where the sun smiled on us all afternoon and evening. Our audiences were amazing and very complimentary.

Beaches in Cornwall change tide by tide and Kynance is no exception. An enormous pile of seaweed had been washed up on the beach just where our ‘stage’ was to be so our warm up was a beach clean so that the dancers could dance safely and we, along with the audience could move across the beach without hazard.

Here are some views of this very beautiful cove and one photo of the dancers in the water, courtesy of our friend David. Tomorrow sees the last two performances.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 13, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment

Tags: Kynance Cove, Shoreline, Simon Birch dance

Kindness, Shoreline and Celebrities

11 Jul

I have been a part of Shoreline today on the beach at Sennen and it was wonderful. Click on the red link for photos of the earlier production. Being in it, of course, means no photos but heightened emotions. The sun was setting, the tide was coming in, the dancers were in the waves and I couldn’t sing the words “sing for the mother and the child she holds” if I watched the dancers struggling in the water.

This is the beach just as we finished. It was a stunning performance this evening and I heard some people as they were leaving, talking about how very moving it was. As we moved towards the part of the beach designated for the second performance some people asked me what was happening and I explained and invited them to stay for the promenade performance. I was told afterwards that I had been talking to one of our well known actors, Alun Armstrong! Yesterday Dawn French happened upon the performance on the beach and tweeted about us.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 11, 2016 in Beauty, Celebration, Cornwall, Happiness

Tags: Alun Armstrong, Dawn French, ingleheart singers, Sennen Cove, Shoreline, Simon Birch dance, Suitcase Singers

Shoreline, Bows, Thirsty Dog and Bedruthan Steps

09 Jul

Shoreline is a beautiful production on Cornish beaches incorporating dance and music. Do click on the red link to discover what it is all about and enjoy the gallery of today’s Premiere on Watergate Bay Beach. Click on any photo for the bigger picture. Today we watched our choirs singing – in the productions on Sennen and at Kynance next week, I will be a part of it all.

A little girl in the audience had beautiful bows in her hair.

Leaving the beach and the choir having their picnics before the second performance, I spotted a new use for a sand spade.

After that very emotional performance, I felt the need for some sea and space so we went a few miles up the coast to Bedruthan Steps where we were blown about by the wind on the cliff tops.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 9, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, dance, environment, gigs, Photography, Postaday 2016, Uncategorized

Tags: Bedruthan Steps, Claire Ingleheart, Simon Birch dance, Suitcase Singers, The Ingleheart Singers, Watergate Bay

Shoreline, Blossom and Sea Fever

09 Apr

A whole day singing and watching dance – what more could one want? And before you say ‘cake’ there was cake too! It is the launch weekend of a fabulous project called Shoreline and you will be hearing more about it! Here are just two shots of the amazing dancers followed by the poster for the weekend launch. Our singing was pretty good too! Everything we learned was an original composition by Jon Hughes and accompanied the dancers. There were many breathtaking moments and I can hardly wait for tomorrow’s session.

Walking around the grounds of Tremough University, the blossom was beautiful to behold.

There seemed only one poem for today, John Masefield’s ‘ Sea Fever’, another that I learned as a child and which I had as a poster in my office for years before I retired.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.