The last couple of weeks, I’ve bookended with a visit to the Frida Kahlo exhibition, Making of an Icon. I managed three rooms with one friend, and yesterday evening I finished the exhibition, with another friend waiting about half an hour for me to finish! In between, a trip to Hastings also meant I was able to view a documentary about Frida Kahlo. She has been a big inspiration since school days, when I also watched the biopic ‘Frida’ starring Salma Hayek, when I was just 13 years old. It was interesting that the exhibition featured as much work as inspired by the artist than her own work.
I was treated to afternoon tea the day of my first visit, and in between visits I swam in the lido and the sea, saw System of a Down with a friend who now lives in Germany, saw a film preview that had me laughing and crying (the best kind of film), celebrated my gran’s 84th birthday, worked my day job, where I’ve been nominated for a Patients’ Choice Award, and fantasised about living on the coast.
This Sunday is the Forest Hill Stanza open mic 2-4pm at Forest Hill Library. I’ve also been trying out a new schedule to inject more creativity into my evenings after work, so I finished a poem, so should have a few to read myself tomorrow!
Watching: Survival of the Thickest, Big Mistake, Love on the Spectrum, The Art of a True Story – Exhibition On Screen: Frida Kahlo
Reading: Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chödrön, The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, and the Expressive Therapies Continuum by Lisa D. Hinz.l, The Lost Girls of Autism by Gina Rippon (audiobook)
Podcasts: What Now? with Trevor Noah, Girls Gotta Eat
Music: Tove Lo, 65daysofstatic, System of a Down, The Plot in You, Slayyyter, Tommy, Pinhani
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Poet on page and stage. Creator of She Grrrowls. Facilitator. Writer. 