{"id":6326,"date":"2023-07-28T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2023-08-04T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:33:38","slug":"whats-lou-doing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/whats-lou-doing-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Lou Doing #3: Hope, Awe, Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I share what I\u2019ve been to, what I\u2019m going to and what I\u2019d like to see.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Seen \ud83d\udc40<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Oona Doherty: Hope Hunt<\/a> \u2014 Bold Tendencies (Peckham, London)
<\/strong>22 July
An incredible, moving performance by Irish choreographer Oona Doherty. A mix of dance and theatre, the dancer Sati Veyrunes was vulnerable yet so strong at the same. The DJ set afterwards was definitely needed to pull us back together \u2014 I felt so sad afterwards \u2014 as well as a long walk Sunday! Definitely go and see Oona Doherty\u2019s work if you can. Unlike anything I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Awe Walks
<\/strong>Anytime, anywhere
I\u2019ve been going on awe walks<\/a> after I finish work \u2014 you\u2019ll find a recent one on Instagram<\/a>! You don\u2019t have to go anywhere special. Walk down your street or to your local park. What can you see? What makes you go \u2018wow\u2019? Even looking up and thinking about how big the world is, and how little it is in the universe is awe-inspiring! And we live here! I love looking out for all those little unexpected moments, chatting with people and hearing their stories, finding beautiful colour combinations, torn paper, graffiti. There\u2019s so much to enjoy in the spaces and people around us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horace Andy and the Dub Asante Band and Matic Horns<\/a> \u2014 The Jazz Cafe (Camden, London)
<\/strong>27 July and 31 July
I\u2019m still feeling all the good vibes from seeing the soulful Horace Andy, Dub Asante and Matic Horns. What a performance by a living legend. The connection and love between everyone playing, as well as off stage, was really special and something I\u2019ll treasure. And to experience it with my oldest friend gives me tingles (some people follow a lover, I followed her to London). I\u2019d also forgotten what a great venue The Jazz Cafe is too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Going to \ud83d\udc4b<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Fandango Discoteca<\/a> \u2014 Canary Wharf (London)
<\/strong>26-30 July, Festival14
In partnership with the Loss Project, artist Annie Frost Nicholson has created a disco using K67 modular kiosks designed by the legendary Sasa Machtig in 1967. Annie\u2019s work is shaped by love, connection, grief and trauma \u2014 with music, dance and words allowing us to find a new way to move through the world. Bright pink on the outside with an amazing interior, I can\u2019t wait to dance inside this mini-disco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ikra Arshad \u2018Shape-energy\u2019<\/a> \u2014 Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, Shoreditch (London)
<\/strong>3 August
I\u2019ve been following Ikra\u2019s for quite a few years so I\u2019m really excited to be attending her first solo exhibition. Mentored by Camille Walala, you might have seen Ikra’s<\/a> distinctive ’80s-inspired pastel and geometric work in Design Milk or on the walls of Peckham Levels. She also gave us a little taster of some 3D objects in her East Quay installation but I\u2019ve been told we can expect to see more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wishing I was going to \ud83d\ude2d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Anywhere green or with the sea! I think it\u2019s time to get out of London for a bit. I\u2019m starting to feel a bit tired. Let me know your recommendations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oona Doherty, Awe Walks, Horace Andy, Dancing, Shapes and Rituals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,185],"tags":[119,195,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}