The Party Season is upon us. It has not gone unnoticed that Bradford University is currently hosting Freshers Week, and the whole campus area is now throbbing to a different beat, with "young uns" swirling in their DESTROY Jeans, strutting in tie-died T-Shirts and matching multi-tone hair, and sooooo obviously having a grand old time of it all. The young lady that ran, wild-eyed, into the traffic on Great Horton Road earlier at 21.15, STARK NAKED, apart from a Diesel wristwatch, was evidently under the strong impression that she had landed on the planet Good Time, Good Time. Gorgeous watch, love. Thank God for ABS and halogen headlights.
Anyway, that aside, to tap into some of this energy and creativity, Factory Street Studios is throwing a full-on, Rock God opening event complete with bar, AND where guests will be invited to participate in a variety of musical and media-centred activities in the studios for Friday night. That's the 25th. We are supporting her, and have promised to be there from 17.00 onwards. I am hoping to do some networking with the Delius Centre and hobnob with certain providers in the area such as Calderdale College, Bradford University, Shipley College, Park Lane, Huddersfield University, and of course, Leeds University. Amy has put a lot of work into this event, and I have invited as many key colleagues in Education and Development from Greater Manchester as I can manage. Johnnie is bringing in reinforcements from East Yorkshire just for good measure. I am certain that there are people out there who would argue that this is hardly a party, since it has taken so much planning, and the guests, well they're tres, tres, bourgeousie - that indeed, to have a real party involves an element of spontaneity, a big gesture, a smattering of crusty nibbles, not to mention the parallel lines of some sweet white powder. Ah, sady, these people, they're right! They are so bang on target, it hurts. Baby, I say, we're in our FORTIES now: one too many glasses of wine and I'm in bed for three days recovering. Put simply, it's not worth it. Not for me. Not at my age. Besides, we have RESPONSIBILITIES. How bourgeoisie . . .
Let's hope that we are equal to the task asked of us, and that we support Amy and the good folk of Factory Street in the way that they want. The Delius Centre is gearing up for it's opening ceremony on the 16th October. The Lord Mayor of Bradford will be there, doing the honours. In fact he will be there the preceding day, the 15th, hosting the Community Development (LEGI) Awards for this year. I am proud that the Delius Centre continues to gather momentum and expands upon its portfolio of services and facilities. We are currently letting excellent artist studio space at £90 per month, but you will have to be quick, as there are only the two studios left - the rest have already been taken. Interested parties should contact Chris Howson at the Delius Centre on chris.howson@deliuscentre.org.uk or go to the website for more information.
On the subject of upcoming events, I must remember to mention that we are all very much looking forward to the Bradford 1Mile2 Arts Project, that is going to be based in one of the studios at the Delius Centre. I personally, cannot wait to put out the publicity materials and other marketing doo daahs and gizmos when we eventually find out when they want to start. As soon as I know . . . . you'll know. Okay?
Don't forget Friday is also the day at the Delius Centre where we are having the submissions for the Art Competition. CL will be at the Centre this coming Friday between 1400 and 1600 to receive submissions. Contact CL for more information. But please, remember, keep it cool, and keep it decent. We all know what happened last year: when we saw those paintings and sketches it was more than evident that the artist had probably never even seen a woman nude, and it was commented that they may not, therefore, have been suitably well qualified to be drawing one from scratch. I never saw such things . . .
On reflection then, it looks like Friday evening is, after all, going to be a bit MAD? Will I have time to even hang out the washing, and load up the wine cooler for the weekend?? Maybe . .
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