Film project

Today has been such a success Miryam has taken me to the HLM Maché where I chose my fabric for my tigh costume. Miryam was great with the camera even arguing with the occassional reluctant participant who wanted money for being o camera. The best bit was up in the area where hundreds of sewing machines vibrated with the taylors flashing fabrics of every colour and design through the thrashig neddle poit, some costumes where made of beautiful collaborations of textiles, I spent time looking this way ad that truly amazed at all I saw, evetually we left my fabric with a taylor after Miryam filmed him measuring me up and drawing out the pattern to my own design and we then went eat at Miryams boyfriends mums seven of us ate from one large platter. Later we returned to the tatlor to collect my most delightful costume ever. Much of this trip has evolved by one special meeting leading to another and this collaboritve project is the result of such an experience.........WoW yes in Wolof. Last evening I saw a large cockroch in the cupboardad could sleep thinking it may land o my chest in the night thought provoced from reading 26a, a great read to end the long dazzzzzzzzzzzzz

Village des Arts

This is pic of one of the many gardens at the the studios and Adama by her work Must go now as more to do laters
I have just returned from visiting the village des arts and visiting many studios of the 48 artists based there plus had good lunch of local fish yum yum. I met with Adama we want to try and make a project linking women artists, also another project whereby we can exchange I would love to work in a studio there as mango trees and gardens are all around and the atmosphere tres tranquil, and the doors open to fresh air and bird song........ perfect. We Adama and I have the same expereince of working in the community we both work a lot with schools and we will try and link one of the schools where she works with a Bristol school and do a project. I also visitied the British Council here in Dakar and talk about the 2007 projects they have whih would connect well with the Abolution of TransAtlantic Slave Trade events in UK 2007