The Show, The Vision & The Mission

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”
Edgar Watson Howe

You may be wondering just what A World Of Secrets, and Tawdry Heartburn are all about. I have been thinking much the same thing, for quite a while! As you might have seen in the previous entry, Synchronicity, the name Tawdry Heartburn, a draggy word play on that movie star and you'd be surprised how many don't get it, has been rattling around in my head for years.(Depending which of my buddies you talk to, I've been blathering on about doing something with Audrey Hepburn/ Tawdry Heartburn for 5 or 6 years, but I didn't wanna do just another drag thing. Finally I realised early this year that Tawdry was a man! Funny how if you stick around for long enough, life conspires for a seemingly haphazard confluence of events to add up to something that is possibly well ordered and more significant. Know what I'm saying? Life falls into place and now all the pieces of the puzzle seem to make sense. However, trying to articulate that effectively and succinctly, well that's the trick, huh?

The project is basically, a free interactive performance and webwork (web network of sites, blogs, social networking pages) performed by Tawdry Heartburn, who is a character written and created by performing artist, teacher and qualified nail technician, James Berlyn. I knew that course would come in handy one day. God knows I hated the six months I ran my own business in a hair dressing salon in Sydney in the mid 90s! But that entry, "The Evolution of Tawdry" is for another day.

So, TAWDRY HEARTBURN'S MANIC CURES, can be a street performance or festival gig with just Tawdry doing the nails of participants/audience members, passers by or depending on the budget of the sponsor, promoter, funding body, there can be multiple Tawdrys, but the key element is that the audience doesn't pay. Tawdry does their nails and in return they write down on the note paper a genuine personal secret, and then fold it up like a ballot paper and put it into the cookie jar on Tawdry's table, and of course, they use ASSUMED NAMES ONLY!!!! But everyone is free to interact with Tawdry or the sites at no charge.
aworldofsecrets.com (launching in February 09)
Tawdry Heartburn on Facebook (now)
A World of Secrets on Myspace (coming)
and here! http://www.tawdrytawdry.blogspot.com/


As far as I can make out at this point in time, the vision behind the 'A World of Secrets' project is pretty simple.

"A world without the burden of secrets."

The mission, again at this point, though I guess it could change, is also pretty simple if a little more segmented,

"To assist by way of free performances and webwork, audience members/participants at Tawdry Heartburn's Manic Cures articulate without risk to themselves, their secrets, and in so doing, to provide an opportunity for those audience members/participants to feel better for having done it."


So that's the whole box and dice (as I understand it) as of this moment.
I have performances coming up soon and more of that later, so let me know what you think...

Cheers,

Tawdry