Before Christmas we got together with KlangHaus comrades and inspirers...the aim was to play, eat, drink, think and be together. Our intention through-out this year is to continue to gather and play and compile a book of games for us to refer to and to share. Here is what we did.....
InHaus or
Hyggelig, meaning, cosy with friends and warmth and breathing and food and drink and moment after moment.
In order to arrive before you get there and to fully be there whenever you are, the following info is really gonna’ help:
To Bring and ponder
1. Bring a favourite; reading, piece, poem, song, idea, colour, shape, character… that you are happy and comfortable to present, perform, share with a busy bustling audience (ships Kitchen)
2. Bring - An object of single colour - personally significant or a random find complete with a story or a lie... A kind of monochrome antiques road-shown.
3. SwanSong – bring along a small thing, an object, item… that will make a sound – but only once, then it is broken or changed or fukt. For example a paper bag blown up then popped, a match stick snapped. This will result in some kind of short sound moment or piece that we want to record and use as the basis for a future song.
4. A small gesture of dress – water seems to be a theme! Dust off your blue peter badge, press your sailor suit, tap your shoes, splash the colour…
5. Some drink for the drink
Here’s the Saturday in outline:
1pm Arrivals, Soup, Chit, Chat
2.30 pm Wording – a word and what we can do with it, investigating a word. (chosen word was enthusiasm)
3.30pm Fathoming the building. How would you interrogate a building to give up it's secrets?
4pm Tea, Cake
… and what we fathomed
( Pepper's Ghost, literal histories, nosing around, feeling out-of-place, essence, who will be here in 200 years time, will the DNA of a building choose it's inhabitants?)
6pm Swan Song ReSounding
8pm – Ships Kitchen – there will be cooks cooking, eaters eating, washers upping… but, no matter what’s going on, there is always at least one person “entertaining” – reading a favourite poem, telling a story, improvising, game making, Pepper's ghost/ lighting tricks, chancing, cajoling, commenting, live writing, suggesting, challenging, enabling, quizzing, ranting, joking, enchanting, jumping in at the deep ending, silencing.
Tilwenever Sunk.
We carried on into Sunday, but some of us stayed up so late, drank so much, that Sunday was a late starter and when we shared our chosen text/poem/story at 3 in the afternoon, it was mighty emotional. Taking time to continue into the next day allows the night before to have no end.
3. SwanSong – bring along a small thing, an object, item… that will make a sound – but only once, then it is broken or changed or fukt. For example a paper bag blown up then popped, a match stick snapped. This will result in some kind of short sound moment or piece that we want to record and use as the basis for a future song.
4. A small gesture of dress – water seems to be a theme! Dust off your blue peter badge, press your sailor suit, tap your shoes, splash the colour…
5. Some drink for the drink
Here’s the Saturday in outline:
1pm Arrivals, Soup, Chit, Chat
2.30 pm Wording – a word and what we can do with it, investigating a word. (chosen word was enthusiasm)
3.30pm Fathoming the building. How would you interrogate a building to give up it's secrets?
4pm Tea, Cake
… and what we fathomed
( Pepper's Ghost, literal histories, nosing around, feeling out-of-place, essence, who will be here in 200 years time, will the DNA of a building choose it's inhabitants?)
6pm Swan Song ReSounding
8pm – Ships Kitchen – there will be cooks cooking, eaters eating, washers upping… but, no matter what’s going on, there is always at least one person “entertaining” – reading a favourite poem, telling a story, improvising, game making, Pepper's ghost/ lighting tricks, chancing, cajoling, commenting, live writing, suggesting, challenging, enabling, quizzing, ranting, joking, enchanting, jumping in at the deep ending, silencing.
Tilwenever Sunk.
We carried on into Sunday, but some of us stayed up so late, drank so much, that Sunday was a late starter and when we shared our chosen text/poem/story at 3 in the afternoon, it was mighty emotional. Taking time to continue into the next day allows the night before to have no end.
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