The Doorstep Arts team is getting ready for some big (ish) changes in the next month or two. We’re slowly getting ready for them, but meanwhile our artistic projects are rolling on merrily.
At the moment, our Doorstep Youth Theatre group is getting ready for a couple of sharings. Tonight they’ll be performing their radio play Lift live at the Palace Theatre in Paignton, alongside Sound Communities.
And in a week’s time, they’ll be performing as part of the Under One Roof charity event at the Princess Theatre in Torquay.
The title Under One Roof is largely about raising awareness about homelessness here in Torbay, but the phrase has been evoking a vague ghost-like memory of a poem I once read, so today I went looking for it.
And I found it.
It’s actually not a poem, per se. It’s a quote by Barbara Kingsolver, one of my favourite writers.
And it’s this:
‘The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for.
And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Not admire it from a distance,
but live right in it,
under its roof.’
I think what is echoing round in my mind at the moment is how difficult that is to do… to live right inside your hope. It means you spend a lot of time believing in something you can’t see yet. And for us, at the moment, a lot of time visioning something not yet possible.