Month: June 2020

Hookland 6/1/20 9:13:11

@unfortunatalie I believe in paying all artists, but not in artists making participation in the rituals of community and place pay to place. It’s heritage industry shitlakring. Unfortunately, I feel a free waking the trees service may have to be provided next year.

Hookland 6/1/20 9:22:26

@unfortunatalie I won’t knock cheap pizza, but the charging for wassailing is just such a wrong concept for so many of us, that the London bone horse may have to trot out for the next one in E17.

Hookland 6/1/20 9:41:31

@unfortunatalie Because some rituals come from faith, because some things should be free and never feel like cosy art projects/middle class enclosure due to the way that feels like erasure and heritagisation. Have a lovely day of singing/pizza and charge for it without using other faith praxis.

Hookland 6/1/20 9:45:58

@unfortunatalie Some would feel very queasy if carolling was pay to play and some of us have that queasy unease about wassailing. Not agin lovely choral music and procession and god forbid not against pizza or paying artists, just not on the basis of certain customs.

Hookland 6/1/20 10:05:27

The ghost is disrputor. Once encountered, the ghost is a painful, lingering reminder that the normal is fragile, that the normal can be suspended. It is an impossible to dismiss accusation that there is more enfolding us. It smarts the rational. – C. Josiffe, 1935 #Ghosts

Hookland 6/1/20 10:15:53

@unfortunatalie The open air ecumenical carol service for the same community doesn‰Ûªt take a collection for any church. A voluntary contribution is quite different to priced minimum.

Hookland 6/1/20 10:23:45

@unfortunatalie We will disagree on this. It is faith issue for many of us and a deep principle about not allowing folk ritual to be owned, enclosed and monetised. Others do it for free and it so appalls me and other folky punks, I think it needs a challenge next year.