Fear

Fear

Fear dibilitates
Fear separates
Fear makes us war with each other.

Fear stops us from changing the world
It makes our limbs heavy
It brands our soul and mind and fills us with woe.

Fear makes us cautious, conservative and atrophied,
Fear without good grounds is terrorism,
It makes us bear those ills we have,
It is an ancient manipulation.

Fear separates us,
One from another,
When we really are: alltogether.

Yet dumped in this world of black or white,
Afraid of our own heart beat,
We slide beneath the covers,
We fall asleep,
neath the static snow of ignorance,
Beneath a weight of helplessness,
Of inconciquence ;
A drop set against the ocean.
At war with ourselves,
Devouring ourselves,
Chasing our tales,
like an old mythic serpent.


Why are we surprised that half the world anaesthetists  itself with booze or drugs or both. Fear makes us buckle down or drop out,
Fight or flea, fear stops us dead from rising as our spirit says we should,
Fear whispers that our dreams are not worthy,
Fear destroys action,
Fear negates creation.

Fear makes us sick in our own imagination.
Fear makes hate,
Fear makes us greedy,
Fear makes us dangerous.

We make fear the state religion,
Fear becomes our advocate,
Becomes our friend forever,
The warder happily holding keys,
Of the cell we lock ourselves in.

Its an unweeded garden in a private plantation,
Where we are ensnared by a never ending reflection,
Caught in the lights we see our own shadow,
Cast on the wall of our cell,
And we cower.

We build a temple to fear in our news and our fiction.
We raise up on high the voice of the worst that we could be,
We paint it in sickly hues upon each other.

If instead of fear upon our altars high,
we loved each other and ourselves,
What would not be possible?
How could we then be loneley?

The Brink

Kachina-hey

Highly recommend getting over to Bar 25 in Little Germany... top of chapel street up from the playhouse. Its just reopened and is collaborating with Sarah Lin on exhibitions and creativity. Good to have such an arts friendly bar in the area. I'll keep you updated.

Exhibition of paintings by Shamanic artist sarah lin
Kachina-hey

The Kachinas are the weavers of the dream,the dream teachers:the archetypal symbology of the dream,the collective understanding of all humans,everything is a symbol. weaving a web of dark and light within the patterned web of life."hey" means "to be awakened".

Get up to Bar 25 ASAP to check out the exhibition its open now but remember that the preview, which will be lush is, on 2nd Feb.

BarTwenty5:

25 Peckover Street, little Germany, Bradford

open daily:
Mon - Thu: 11:00 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00 Sunday 11 till 22.30
contact sarah lin :07921 681494

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SPECT TICKETS

Hi all. Tickets are on sale now for SPECT. There are only 70 available so you'll have to be quick.

http://spect.eventbrite.com/

 

 SPECT means "To Look". Our performance this December will include four artful installations by our artists. There will be life models, live music, three dimensional shadows, live life drawing and an exhibition of our work from the drawing club. SPECT will mystify and amaze in the cold, dark of the winter.

Poet and life model "Suki" AKA Sue Vickerman will be creating the first half "The Gaze". Expect poetry, manifesto, life drawing a playful examination of the male gaze of the artist. sukithelifemodel.co.uk

Performance:Tuesday 18th December at 6.30 PM at Delius Arts & Cultural Centre. £3/£2 To book a ticket contact Estelle for further details on 01274 256924 or email Estelle@artworkscreative.org.uk

(18+ Adults Only)

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Porterhouse Blue

Desmond Tutu House is under review. The word is heavy. Space is a funny thing.

Desmond Tutu House and the Tree House Cafe are places in the city that give shared sanctuary and right space for Bradford citizens. 

The house has become a gateway from university campus to the local community and a place where different faiths, paths and philosophies meet; we come to understand each other and we enjoy in being with one another. 

Treehouse cafe is top... spiffing, amazing, silly, wonderful, musical, healthy, healing and essential; has soooooooooooooo much potential man. I need its coffee and hilarious staff; they make my day most days. 

Freinds of Desmond Tutu has set up a blog and a twitter feed and such. The links are here:

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