{"id":6440,"date":"2023-08-05T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T21:16:46","slug":"whats-lou-doing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/whats-lou-doing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Lou Doing #4: Heartbreak, Love, Repeat"},"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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Caleb Femi: STONE SEED with Danielle Wilde, Dillon Kalyabe, Latekid and Obinnaspeaks<\/a> \u2014 Bold Tendencies (Peckham, London)<\/strong>
29 July
It\u2019s true! I go to Bold Tendencies a lot. You\u2019d go too if you had an amazing programme on your doorstep. I was really excited to see Caleb Femi \u2014 an award-winning writer, director and photographer who grew up in Peckham \u2014 but I wasn\u2019t expecting the deeply moving and immersive experience that we experienced. A heady mix of performance, music, sound, and poetry, Caleb brought together some of the most interesting and powerful voices living in the UK and took us on a journey of heartbreak, fear, anger and love. Presented and produced by SLOGhouse and Bold Tendencies, if this is ever on again \u2014 see it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes<\/a> \u2014 South London Gallery (Peckham, London)
<\/strong>5 July – 29 Oct
I went back for the family day of Lagos, Peckham, Repeat and it was so great! Sound feels so important to this exhibition with Culture Tree doing a performance in Yoruba on the family day (usually Emeka Ogboh\u2019s soundscapes of the city usually fill the space). Which made me think, why isn\u2019t the soundscape considered more as part of traditional exhibition spaces? I think sound \u2014 like smell \u2014 is such a great way of transcending time and space, and rooting us or allowing us a new way to experience a moment or an artwork on a much deeper level. I loved the beer as well from the design to the taste \u2014 which like the soundscape was also made by Emeka Ogboh \u2014 and named after a Lagos saying (harsh but fair) \u2018No Food for Lazy Man\u2019. Before this exhibition, I didn\u2019t know Peckham was known as \u2018Little Lagos\u2019 and afterwards, walking through Peckham where I spend so much time, I could finally see it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Going to \ud83d\udc4b<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

YesM8\u2019s Rituals & Rhythms: Creativity and Movement Afternoon Retreat<\/a> \u2014 Wonderful Things, Canning Town (London)
<\/strong>5 August
I really need this! It\u2019s been a hectic time and I need to decompress. I connected with Poonam Dhuffer through her creative workshops at NOW Gallery a couple of years ago. Poonam has also collaborated with Selfridges and the V&A, and does some really interesting work around healing and connection through exploring our bodies and feelings, using breathing and creativity techniques. Over the years I\u2019ve become really interested in the power of movement and breathing, so I\u2019m really looking forward to this immersive experience and meeting other people on the retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wishing I was going to \ud83d\ude2d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the start of the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe so that\u2019s where I\u2019d like to be! But I would also like to be on holiday by an amazing beach. Maybe the Sunshine Coast where the sun might be despite it being the Australian winter. The sun is not shining in the UK at the moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caleb Femi, Danielle Wilde, Dillon Kalyabe, Latekid, Obinnaspeaks, Lagos, Peckham, Repeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,185],"tags":[195,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440"}],"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=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonexception.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}