Thursday, November 19th felt a lot like Thursday, March 12th. Can you say lockdown? This year has been hard on a lot of people, a lot of industries, and mine is no better.
March 12th – Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announces a lock down – all events cancelled for the foreseeable future.
I work at a live theatre. That weekend in March, we had four very busy shows. Not sold out, quite. It was one of our busiest weekends, followed by quite a number more events over then next several weeks. And everything came crashing to a halt. We were expecting the order, and we were really hoping it wouldn’t come until AFTER the weekend.
Fast forward several months. My coworkers and I have spent the past several months pivoting to be able to provide high quality live stream content. We put our safety plan in place to allow a limited audience of up to 50 people to watch a performance at the same time as it is live streamed.
And then…
November 19th – Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announces a lock down – all events cancelled until at least December 7th.
Three hybrid in person and live stream events, suddenly turned into live stream only. People panicking about what was going to happen to their tickets, staff frantically working to provide solutions. We were expecting the order, and we were hoping it wouldn’t come until AFTER the weekend.
It was kind of like Groundhog Day.
I’m grateful we didn’t have to cancel the events outright this time. And I’m extremely grateful I work with an amazing team who could take it all in stride. I mean, we might have done this before.
Please wear your mask. Wash your hands. Don’t go out if you don’t have to. I want to get back to live theatre.
Blessings,
Mary
Hosting after-climbing family dinners with the whole climbing crew again.
Great blog. What I miss the most are the spiritual wellness fairs. I am hoping we will get them back in 2021. My plans are to do what we can to best comply with all we need to do to help get our numbers back down and our lives open again to do the fairs, theatres, and all other get togethers. Blessings ??
I am looking forward to going back to active social calendar of in lesson rituals , green man days and other celebrations with my local Hearth / ATC Mother church and being able to do concerts , dance co ops , dinners / coffee meetups with friends , going back to my job which I love ?? And miss dearly .my daughter going back to in person school ( she misses the in person connection and human interaction of her classmates ) and so many awesome ? school staff .this is the beginning of my list ? last ,yet not least , SMF and HSF in Ft Flagler ..I want to return to Eleusis! this is just off the top of my head .
YES, Connie! Blessings for that!
Dinners with lots of family and friends are amazing, Whitney!
YES, Lady Rhia! Spending time in the heart spaces of our spiritual family!
In person Full Moon Rituals and of course Festival POTLUCKS!
Oh yes! With Bryce’s wonderful bread!