Hot off the press...which is also hot...and so am I!

Hi everybody!  Is it just me or is it freaking hot?!!  I’m not just talking about our news this week either!

It’s been jam packed down at The Higher Space- we’ve had workshops running and I’ve got some little clips for you.  It’s harder than it looks but twice as fun!!  Please excuse some of the video quality, my vid software isn’t a fan of camera phones, hahaha!  

 We also had Kerri Jackson, co Director of Promnesia training in the studio on Monday, trying out all things bungee and having a cracking old time!  Hopefully I’ll be able to wangle our Venue Manager Rob into uploading some footage from that onto our Facebook page- who’s workin’ for you baby?!

We’ve also has Stephen Musa and 18 of his students from Cronton Sixth Form College in the space getting some air time with Wendy, who incase you didn’t know is one of their patrons.  Never one to take her titles lightly, Wend got them working hard on bungee-assisted dance and vertical wall!

To round off the busy busy, we’re looking forward to Full Tilt Aerial joining us at THS next week as part of our EAS scheme.  They’ve got some fantastic ideas, and I’ll do my best to squeeze them for info!  Stay tuned!

We also had the interns at The Higher Space last week, keeping them busy and giving them the full Wired experience!  Tamsin and Claire are currently studying at Laban, and came along for a week with Wired to see what goes on behind the scenes and of course have a good old bounce around in our workshops.  We loved having you guys, and wish you both the very best with your onward journey through the industry!  Thanks again for the thank you cards, we thought they were so lovely that I wanted to share them with you all, so take a gander below!  You can read more about our super-duper interns and what they got up to in our summer newsletter which will be dropping into your inbox sometime next month, so if you haven’t joined our mailing list yet now’s the time!!

Jo Forrest, You ROCK!

If you follow us on Facebook, you’ll have heard about our latest performance opening the new West Cheshire College building in Ellesmere Port with an aerial piece with an Olympic twist!  The fantastic Jo Forrest has been at it again, taking some fantastic shots of the show, do click on them and take a look at her whole gallery, she’s fantastic!  We also had Urban Conceptz Media along, who took some really great footage behind the scenes as we were preparing for lift-off!  A big thanks to Ryan for all your help and artistic eyes on the day!  Take a look at the vid below, it’s pretty cool!

Any of your feeling the London 2012 fever yet?  MDI have asked us to put together a gestural dance for alongside the road outside of MDI for when the Olympic torch goes past!  Wired will already be there running our professional class on Friday from 10-11.30am, with the festivities starting later on in time for when the relay sails down the streets!  It’s basically a big street party, open to everyone from Dentists to Ballet dancers to join in with the funky moves and be a part of the electric atmosphere!  Make sure you don’t miss it!

Finally, I’m trying to organize a mass finger-crossing for Wired at the Observer Ethical Awards tonight- I can count on you to join in right?  Wendy and Maggie have already zoomed down to London for the swanky event happening tonight, and rest assured they scrub up well our girls!  Names you might know who are also up for awards will be Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Dartford Football Club!  The mantra for the awards is to celebrate the projects, businesses, ideas, campaigns and activists making sustainable change a reality.  The awards include a mix of reader-voted categories and judged categories and all were judged earlier this month by a panel of ethically-minded celebrities and experts including Colin Firth and Livia Firth; poet, Ben Okri; model, Lily Cole; and TV presenter, Ben Fogle.  It’s the second award nomination Wired has received for As the World Tipped, and while it’s an honour in itself to even be shortlisted, I’ll certainly be knocking on wood, rubbing rabbits feet and chucking a black cat in front of me every time I leave the house until we hear the result tonight, and I’ll let you know the minute I do!!

Sheesh, that was a lot of news!  I’m going to go for a lie down and contemplate the wonder that is the unpredictability of British weather, whilst listening to the thunderstorm outside my window.   It was hot and sunny out when I started writing this.  Maybe I just type really slooow.