Writing Circle

I attended the Fearless Festival and I was so happy to see all of the people there! :)  I was nervous because I was to film footage and I hadn't even touched the camera :)  Thanks to Amy for allowing me to use her camera, and Scott for giving me a quick tutorial on the camera. :)

The Interurban gallery was full of life!  Magical and very slightly mayhem-ish  :)  When I walked in, right smack in the middle was EWAC, the Emerging Women Ar Co-op, who had beautiful jewelry to sell.  They are now on their own, previously been housed at Atira's office at Columbia and Cordova.  I was happy to speak with Sandra, one of the co-op members who spoke at length about her involvement with the festival.  I was very glad that the ladies at the EWAC were there.. I am so proud of them for being entrepeuners and I was touched that they had remembered me when I was trying to be part of the EWAC :)

I ran into Ali, of Carnegie who was enjoying the festival and gave me a few pointers on how to film :)  Thanks Ali :)

Behind them were the sweet songs from members of the City Opera!  What a thril to be able to hear such amazing voice; we citizens of the DTES were certainly given a rare almost private performance than normally many of us wouldn't be able to go and see :)  The other musical acts sounded wonderful and added to the ambience of the fesival. :)

I haven't seen so many happy faces!  People from the street came to view the different acts and I notice them leaving with a smile, flourishing on the adrenaline and positive energy that the Fearless Festival participants were giving off :)  What a beautiful feeling!  :)  I wonder if this is how W2 is going to be like.  I can't wait! :)

Today's Thursday, My day off! :)  I was glad to go to the Fearless meeting yesterday before my other job as a bartender ( of sorts ) I am very grateful to Hendrik, for if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here :)  I am also pleased to say that he will be bringing me up to speed on the different projects that are around, and that in return I will help him with all his paperwork ! :p  Hee hee!

Maybe I can be Miss MoneyPenny to Hendrik in a matter of speaking and hopefully through all this, I can learn more and be more active in the DTES and find some way to contribute in my own sort of way. 

Right now I'm just attending meetings, and honestly I'm looking for some focus as to where I should channel my energies.  I'm also lucky to have my own personal technical support/executive assistant P., who will also help me, help in the DTES.  Whatever I can't do, he can ( hopefully) on the upcoming projects, which seem to be very abundant! :D So it's definitely looking very probable that I will be of some great use somewhere to some great cause :)

I'm glad to be in the DTES, depsite all the problems, I'm glad to live in this community and feel part of it.

Today being my day off, I am going to Staples to get or at least look at some wall callenders to help me get organized.  I'm a visual person and I like to be able to see at a glance what my upcoming events are! Being organized is something that I had to learn.... before when I was doing other projects at other centres in the DTES such as Carnegie Centre, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, WISH, (DEWC), I had lots of little reminders to be at all the different meetings I had to be at.... I guess I had to learn what works for me :)