Working here on #TEDx with an awesome bunch of people just like me: positive-thinking perfectionists, and it feels like a family. Due to the pandemic, the whole thing has changed locations a handful of times, tickets have been restricted/ returned, and every 3 seconds we wonder if it will even happen. Weirdly, all the uncertainty has an upside: I don’t feel so stressed! I feel just as invested in the quality of my work as I always do, but less invested in whether the event happens exactly the way expected or not. Is there a word for “I have no hope, I have no fear, I am free”?
~ Notes from rehearsal today, yet, really, a motto for life.
A flutey score keeper with a metronome meets a fluid inky improvisor, one line worker.
Will they find the balance between them in time for an audience of 6million?
#rehearsal #KalliopiBolovinou #soloflute #DELPHI #allinoneline #continuousline #singleline #art
promo code TEDXULB2020 on tickets Maison Du Bois, Vrijwilligerslaan 2, 1040 Etterbeek on OCT 22nd.
Today I was interviewed by Viktoryia Sinkovec for episode one of her exciting new podcast called ARTY PARTY. We discussed art and drank tea. (Get it? Art Tea Party?) I’ll share the podcast here when it gets released.
Viktoryia is a Belarussian in Belgium, multilingual mother/lawyer/yogini/journalist and art lover. Well, she corrected me, lover in general!
We talked about the arts in Europe, my upcoming live art performance for TEDx. Viktoryia gave me some fantastic breathing techniques to help calm stage fright.
These breathing techniques provided some much needed art therapy for the artist, here.
We had a delicious tea party and a good giggle about her big black microphone.
While we were recording her doorbell rang with a delivery of art supplies!
A great opportunity to do a couple of portraits of her in action.
I did not know she was recording this timelapse video while we were recording a podcast, while I was painting her portrait, while we were drinking tea.
An Arty Party, indeed.
So excited to hear the music Kalliopi Bolovinou has layered into our first live art + music collaboration at TEDx on the 22nd Oct.
We are performing the trailer to my continuous line graphic novel #Delphi. She sent me this pic of her music notes in my script. So awesome!
Nothing is more fun than interdisciplinary arts, in my book. (Literally.)
Promo code TEDXULB2020 on tickets.
Maison Du Bois, Vrijwilligerslaan 2, 1040 Etterbeek on OCT 22nd
First-class flautist Kalliopi Bolovinou and I start our art + music collab with a TEDxULB live show on the 22nd of October 2020.
We will do a variation on my live continuous line graphic novel DELPHI with accompanying (possibly Baroque) flute music.
(Promo code TEDXULB2020 to receive a discount on the prices of the ticket.)
https://www.tedxulb.org/event-details/tedxulb-misfits
Maison Du Bois, Vrijwilligerslaan 2, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium
