Lovely to see quite a few new faces last night. Do continue to feel free to invite friends and family to join us. We intend keeping going with Zoom until the end of the month and then, depending on the state of play, possibly getting back together in some form or other. A number of choirs in Germany, and no doubt elsewhere, have kept going this year, sometimes in garden or even parking lots. This link is to a short film entitled Choirs in Corona Time and is quite inspiring. Well worth watching. (Don’t worry if you don’t speak German, it has subtitles!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb5DOqmFfl8&feature=youtu.be
One other bit of good news we heard this week is that the Town Council have voted to give the choir another year of free use of the Town Hall. Thankyou Shaftesbury. We all hope we will be able to avail ourselves of their offer before too long.
Finally, today is the Chinese Moon Festival – jolly picture attached. So “zhong qiu jie kuai le” as we say in Kington Magna.
THINGS TO DO
There is a lovely mixed exhibition of paintings, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery starting in the gallery at Fisherton Mill, Salisbury this Saturday featuring the work of local artist Rachel Sargent, whom many of you will know, amongst others. (See attached flyer.) The cafe will be open and the Mill is full of beautiful arts and crafts to browse. The Mill is following government safety regulations and has a QR code for scanning for track and trace purposes. If you are unable to get there or you would prefer to look at Rachel’s work on line you can see her paintings here:
https://www.rachelsargent.co.uk/fisherton-mill-paintings
You can also see some examples of work by the other exhibitors here: https://fisherton-mill.myshopify.com/collections/natural-elements
ONLINE ARTS DIARY
For up to date information about online arts programmes, don’t forget to check the Fine Times Recorder’s listings. There are lots of wonderful free things to see and listen to on-line: http://www.theftr.co.uk/whats-on/
Keep well, keep in touch, keep on singing, and, with luck, see you next week. Bring a friend along too.
David
1 October 2020