Week 12 is review your choices, pick your favourites and look again week! Musings, news Picture Post project and no playlist!

Many wonderful things going on in Shallal at present,
especially Picture Post the developed work of Shallal Studios outreaching to old and new artists and partnering with Project Ability.
I have always rated News as something that others want to tell you about and I have many artists enthusiastically sharing their work and enjoyment, see more at
http://www.shallalstudios.com/

Now is normally the time i collate a playlist and this week i'm taking a break to review it...also the politics of I and i?

Finding tunes that work can be time consuming or nearly instantaneous and fortuitous, without the easy try on, and stop and start of an in the room Shallal session to review your choices, it poses more questions.
Zoom, as many have been writing about, is a great but restricted tool, a co-worker we are all making friends with and also restrictive of what sounds good, some of my favourite new musical finds have been to subtle to really work when presented on that format.
I'd hoped to get to Music Choices 12 but am pausing at 11.

Last week the toll (from the last 3 months) of getting everything going behind the scenes,
" I can't believe how busy and fast you got the whole Shallal up and running on the internet" Shallal Associate artist
sunk slightly under the more complex ( even more unclear?!) new style Covid19 guidelines along with the needs and wishes for more in person connection felt so heavily from some in Shallal and wanting to honour it all and keep us as safe as possible, so  Risk Assessments RA at the top of our agenda. It's settling. We hope to have the first 1:1 meet up this week which is piloting the way forward for others: social distance, outside and 3 fold RA.
As always all the artists and facilitators are thinking outside the box, finding safe outdoor spaces, communicating well with all involved and working and collaborating, using restriction as creatively as possible. Many thanks and admiration to the whole team.

Away from delivering tunes people might like to dance and move to I need to turn my attention to delivery, with feedback from participants in Zoom land. So am taking stock and reflecting.

In the background Barbara and Lou continue to fundraise, seek new opportunities, liaise and translate the needs and wishes within Shallal into tangible aims and projects again with collaboration from across Shallal.

Shallal Sketchbooks is coming back into its own with Claire's energy and enthusiasm and it's obvious outreach potential in lockdown.

So in my normal circular thinking back to near the beginning.

Apologies no playlist this week,
Week 12 is review your choices, pick your favourites and look again week!
Rummage through your old music and explore online platforms or like Toby get out some good old vinyl, drawing to music was suggested in Shallal Art Zoom and will continue this Friday for our next theme. Thanks to Barry Cooper our host artist.
photos from Friday Art Zoom

Barry Copper top left