I pay for the flyers and posters.
Then I open up the parcel and trash the lot.
The airline and hotel payments will be refunded, minus deductions for cancellation fees.
One theatre has been paid in full; the other one sends me an invoice for the balance due.
The ticketing agency promises to charge me "twice the internal cost", whatever that means.
My plans are in ruins and I've achieved precisely nothing.
It's a mess. I can't help thinking of the song:
I have to keep reminding myself that I do still have the recipe. The art work for the flyers can be used again; it was only the cost of printing that was wasted. The bookings can be re-made. The plan was good; I just need to navigate my way through the bureaucracy.
I contact migration agent Yana to check on the process for becoming an approved "entertainment sponsor". You never know - this could be my new career; anyone got a phone number for One Direction?
I am still perplexed by the requirement for a work visa. Lots of overseas artists come here to perform in the Fringe festival - comedians, musicians, magicians. Do they all busily apply for work visas, months in advance, all sponsored by respectable Adelaide citizens?
The WOMAD (world music) festival is on this weekend, and I pick up a brochure at my local coffee shop. There are artists from all around the world, but not a single one from Brazil. Is there some sinister reason for this?
And now that I am living in visa-land, another thought has occurred to me.
Will I need a work visa to perform in Brazil? I'd better check this out; I don't want to be detained at the airport or arrested on-stage.
Then I open up the parcel and trash the lot.
The airline and hotel payments will be refunded, minus deductions for cancellation fees.
One theatre has been paid in full; the other one sends me an invoice for the balance due.
The ticketing agency promises to charge me "twice the internal cost", whatever that means.
My plans are in ruins and I've achieved precisely nothing.
It's a mess. I can't help thinking of the song:
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo
I have to keep reminding myself that I do still have the recipe. The art work for the flyers can be used again; it was only the cost of printing that was wasted. The bookings can be re-made. The plan was good; I just need to navigate my way through the bureaucracy.
I contact migration agent Yana to check on the process for becoming an approved "entertainment sponsor". You never know - this could be my new career; anyone got a phone number for One Direction?
I am still perplexed by the requirement for a work visa. Lots of overseas artists come here to perform in the Fringe festival - comedians, musicians, magicians. Do they all busily apply for work visas, months in advance, all sponsored by respectable Adelaide citizens?
The WOMAD (world music) festival is on this weekend, and I pick up a brochure at my local coffee shop. There are artists from all around the world, but not a single one from Brazil. Is there some sinister reason for this?
And now that I am living in visa-land, another thought has occurred to me.
Will I need a work visa to perform in Brazil? I'd better check this out; I don't want to be detained at the airport or arrested on-stage.
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