I’m writing this a few days after the third session of The Art of Social Dreaming which took place as part of Slung Low’s Cultural Community College at The Holbeck over three consecutive weeks in February and March. It’s also the day after the government announced its ‘advice’ to citizens – stopping short of an …
In September I made a big change to my life – I cast myself into the unknown, leaving my job as Executive Director at Unlimited Theatre and setting off on a creative journey. The Gods of Creativity must have approved of this move, because in Early October I had the news that I’d been awarded …
A couple of weeks ago I had the amazing news that I had been awarded a grant under Arts Council England’s ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ programme. Having recently left my salaried post at Unlimited Theatre to pursue independent creative projects, this splendid opportunity could not have been more timely or welcomed at this stage in …
The October Extinction Rebellion in London is in full flow October 7th to 19th 2019. I’ve published a couple of climate chaos poems on the Writing section What’s The Worst That Can Happen? Meeting The Sea photo: Lucy Cartwright
I’ll be performing with Kwah on October 11th at No Bounds Festival in Sheffield – a live mix of material from our upcoming EP Another Breath plus the full length version of The Divided. Stories and sounds about our fragile connection with the earth and our responses to its destruction. http://noboundsfestival.co.uk/artists/tessa-gordziejko-kwah
On Sunday 19th May I performed again with my friend and musical collaborator, the composer, concert pianist and climate activist, Lola Perrin, in the final gig on her End Climate Chaos tour. The event was in a church in Heptonstall, and part of the evening is dedicated to a discussion by the audience on Extinction Rebellion’s …
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Alison and Andrews and I are developing a new show called Pampiric. A pair of two thousand year old women congratulate each other on stealing youth from the young. They’re certainly Looking Well. They have the not-so-secret key to eternal beauty. To staying relaxed, nourished with sensory alignment and immersive wellbeing. More than skin deep, theirs …
I’m adding a new *NEWS* page to my website which will soon have all the news of projects I’m involved in.
Last weekend saw two marches of protest in the UK. By far the largest and most reported was the march in London for a People’s Vote on the final terms of Brexit. ‘Hundreds of thousands’ is the reported scale, comparable with the estimated 750,000 who marched in 2003 to stop the war in Iraq, with …
14thJuly 2018. I’m on the deck of a Stena line ferry – stern end. The sun is shining, its warm and I’m watching England’s east coast retreat into the morning haze. It feels good, like an escape. We’re heading for Holland, then Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and France. Seven of the twenty seven EU countries …