Milpa Alta Project

Recovery No.1

2007-02-11T04:04:00.000-08:00

Well, the first of our Farewell Fiestas came off well last night. Thanks to everyone who came, was a great mix of mine and Claire's friends, some faces I know and love and some new faces that I came to love by the end of the night! Thanks to Robin at Django's Riff for sorting out the 23-glass round of Tequila for us :-) Claire did a great job of hosting the hoards when we got back to her place: food, booze and much merriment!
At home recovering today, starting to put bits and bobs in boxes to make space for Glyn to take over my room while I'm away. We've recieved final notice at 52 Roscoe Street, so have to clear out my studio into storage over today and tomorrow.
On the list of jobs for the week:
-buy compact camera
-Get anti-malaria medication
-get Immodium(!)
Looking forward to seeing some more old faces down in London next weekend.
(a little reminder:Saturday 17th; 9pm; The Foundry, Old Street)
The party's only just starting.....

Getting ready to go!

2007-02-08T16:19:00.000-08:00

The Flights are booked, the insurance sorted out, the packing never-ending....
Got someone to look after my room, so I won't be homeless when I return! I have a travelling partner, Claire who is being a superstar and making loads of stuff happen. We are having a Liverpool Farewell Fiesta this Saturday night (10th), starting off at Django's Riff on Wood St for drinks from 8.30 and then back to Claire's for tortilla and tequila!
For those of you down in London, I will be having another Farewell Fiesta the following Saturday (17th) from 9pm at The Foundry, Old Street.
Now all I have to do is remember my passport.

Who's writing this Blog?

2007-01-23T16:08:00.000-08:00

Writing this blog is Beccy Williams, I'm a British National brought up in Dolgellau, Mid Wales. I come from an English-speaking family but was educated through the medium of Welsh in an area that has a great deal of pride in it's Linguistic and Cultural history.
I studied Textile Furnishing Design at London Guildhall, graduating in 2003. I stuck around in London after my degree, living and working with Project142 (www.project142.org), and international community of 35 artists and musicians occupying a complex of disused industrial buildings in Hackney, East London.
I moved to Liverpool in October 2005 to work on a similar 'regeneration-through-art' project with TAO (www.theartorganisation.co.uk) . For the past year or so have been facilitaing a community arts space (52 Roscoe Street), where we have held regular participatory arts events (The Living Market) as well as using the building as workspace for the production of products made from recycled materials including coffee-sack bags and book-covers and lights made from heat-fused shredded crisp-packets.
During the Liverpool Biennial 2006 (www.biennial.com) I curated work from other designer/makers and artists using recycled materials, which have not only been shown at 52 Roscoe Street, but also at the Afoundation (www.afoundation.org.uk). The majority of the peices have also been on display at Project142's new site in Limehouse, London.