After a free Sunday morning, we came together for lunch then our only work in progress of the day.

Jade Valour lay out the bones of a solo show and the heart of herself. She is trying to draw together threads of the myriad aspects of Salome and manifest and share the intangible but powerful resonance this character has in her own life.

Some Gathering participants went to see Helen Moran's solo performance: 'The Bone Keeper's Story', developed out of a devising collaboration with Kathleen Gallagher. This has a history that includes being a work in progress at the last two Gatherings so some of us had seen 'previous incarnations'.
A salute to you Helen for your tenacity and creativity and the ability and commitment to refresh, reinvent, redefine and refine this work.
Afterwards we had fish and chips and a jolly old time back at the hall.

Sunday afternoon our self-appointed task was: Working with four of the presentations, to develop ideas and look for concrete next steps. This was a way of taking our responding sessions forward, or rather... of helping support our presenters to take them forward. Each got our full focus for quarter of an hour or so and thought about: where they are at now, where they want to go and how to get there. With actions, deadlines and dates. And commitments made and duly scribed, scrolled and presented as a keepsake and a bit of a nudge along.

We started Friday morning with training. I liked the way both the offerings gave us the chance to consider and explore ourselves in that moment, at the same time as being in/with the group and the space.