SMILING FACES at Music for Misfits

What can I say about Westbury People's Gallery?  According to the website (https://www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk/):

We are an independent, community arts collective. We maintain a garden gallery in Cowley, Oxfordshire, UK, which serves as an outdoor venue for exhibitions, events and happenings.

https://www.facebook.com/WestburyPeoplesGallery/

It's so much more than the description though.  It's marvellous and I had a fabulous time playing Music for Misfits.   Encore, encore.   
 

MUSIC FOR MISFITS at Westbury People's Gallery on Saturday 14th May at 3:30

 

I'm delighted to be performing for half an hour this Saturday at Malcolm Atkins' very excellent Westbury People's Gallery.

I'll be singing and playing the keyboard in a performance of songs and extracts from Roost Arcanum.

 

This special event is taking place as part of Art Weeks.

 

This music is dedicated to creative misfits everywhere.

 https://www.facebook.com/WestburyPeoplesGallery.

CONTEXTS

 

 

 

 

 ...from the diaries of an unbalanced misfit...the sweetest refusal  I've ever received. 

 

From Bath Fringe Festival:

 

"Karen, I am very sorry to take so long getting back to you. 

 

I have been sitting on your submission, waiting to see how the exhibition was developing, before I made a final decision. It is now final, final decision time, and I am afraid I am going to say, no. It's not a question of quality or even taste, it's a question of a balance of elements. 

 

You have a distinct voice, in all meanings of the phrase. I wish you success by keeping hold of your distinctiveness. "

 

The diva in me is shouting and stomping about....stomp stomp stomp.  Oddly, I had a strangely fitting dream recently.  There was I, in full diva mode, saying 'I must find my audience!'  All this done while stomping about.  Next, I was in a room filled with an audience and there I was about to do my show.  The thing is...I was there because there was a Karen shaped space for me as performer.  Their eyes were shining and so were mine.  

 

It felt very different to my diva mode.  

 

So...this is me...on the lookout for a Karen shaped space...where everything clicks and voilà - there's an audience to delight, entertain and inspire.