Blend at the Beach
Artists: Vicky Abbott, Mercedes Kemp and Julie Macara and The Blend Community Choir.
A community choir from West Penwith, Cornwall, sing out their fears, their truths and their hopes for the future on the tideline at Mount’s Bay on Marazion Beach. Supported by Wildworks.
Blend is a community choir created as a platform for improvisation and self expression through song, sonic meditation and spoken word. We live in a tiny peninsula, the ocean all around us. We witness the effects of human carelessness daily. We are people of the sea.
The sea covers the earth all around and, although we give it many names so as not to frighten ourselves at its vastness, it is really all the same watery country. From our place at the end of the land, we are connected. For Beach of Dreams we sing and keen on the border between land and sea, where our futures may be determined. We seek connection in a damaged world, we speak out our truths. We consider how the personal is always political. We explore how mental health issues are a rational response to the huge stresses of contemporary life, which are not of our making. We sing with tenderness, open hearts, and a love for each other. We are the ones who care, who nurture, who are ANGRY, who fight, who shout. Singing is our collective voice. We are the ones who say it. We are the ones who refuse to lie down and take it. We speak the truth, no holding back. We believe that no one will save themselves alone, that action must be collective, that we must unite our efforts to face the acute situation we all face. We whisper sentences of support and shout indictments to those we consider responsible for our broken world. We take a breath and start again.
The sea brings and the sea takes away
Here on the edge
We remember who we are
And what we must accomplish.
