Four lessons I need to keep re-remembering on my 6th years anniversary of my first full Singing Psychic show..

I may forget these but they are vital to my creative process

1.Keep On Trucking.
As the fabulous actor Simon Callow said to me, upon me asking advice on creativity, you have to ‘keep on trucking’. Keep on making the work, then the next project, onwards always.

2.Find The Middle Way.

This is a Buddhist term referring to balance, nothing too extreme either side of too much or too little focus. Balance across areas of mental health, physical, relationship health, financial health to ensuring creative health – so getting dreamt up projects finished and out the door. We don’t want to consistently end up each project exhausted, broke and not having maintained healthy relationships. Sure at times we know we have to drop everything to get projects finished and over the line, from getting shows and art launches ready for press day to long runs that require sustained focus and health.

3.Each creative path and project is rocky but always leads to new vistas and opportunities, sometimes years later.
Every project leads to us learning new skills, or techniques, ends up with us networking somewhere new. Our body of work grows, we get better, more patient and more able to stretch

4.Art is about communication with your audience, the conversations you may have with them, being part of the conversation, the impact of your work on them, the ability to raise your voice on what matters to you from the current It’s A Sin Russell Davis TV show set in the 19080s during the AIDS epidemic to the wonderful Moonlight by Barry Jenkins.
You may never know how your words, film, song or art helped, inspired or strengthened another but just realise it does.

So keep on trucking.

This week’s podcast is recorded on the eve of my 6th year anniversary of the full Singing Psychic first show. I have made and toured other shows before, but from my creation of the initial idea (or catching it on the creative breeze) to small outings in 2007 and 2011, to workshopping it in 2014, to then Edinburgh Fringe and award nominations in 2016 (and indeed an appearance at the Brit Awards Official Party at the 02) to 2 years ago this week being in Australia doing a run of The Singing Psychic Game Show, TedX talks, TV and radio appearances. From the first Singing Psychic video How To Have A More 50 Shades Of Grey relationship.
https://youtu.be/xRkoECrrvHs


The song at the beginning is a remix of my LondonTown tune by Andrew Hyde
At the end is a clip of my Vampire For Your Love tune from my album ‘If you can’t make love make coffee’ available online, and also actual CDs if you want to contact me ;)

Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make Money
This podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.
The book on mental, practical and financial tips on ‘getting your art in gear’ is being launched soon.

About me, Marysia Trembecka

I am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.

Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.

My ‘THE SINGING PSYCHIC’ who ‘reads the songs in your heart’ also has a GAME SHOW version, and was a finalist in Best Show, Funny Women in 2016, and I have toured internationally since then.
I have also produced five webseries as the character including my 23 episode SONGS OF BREXIT webseries I made for the June 2016 EU Referendum, on the pros and cons of the EU, I started the web series singing The Clash’s ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now’. It was very wll received due to the blend of education and entertainment, and I ended up on London Live and even a BBC2 Live Debate on the National Living Wage amongst other press of the back of that.


I also was awarded Arts Council funding for research on a solo show on how we are all judged by our sexuality, so as part of that, I interviewed people on the cutting edge of sexual politics. From this I then created another character ‘Queen Of The F*cking World’ which has also toured internationally from Glasgow WOFF film festival in the female perspective strand to sell-out London, Edinburgh and Adelaide runs. I sing and play the bass guitar and guitar in this show.

My film acting credits can be found on IMDB and indeed my projects are on my media gallery http://marysiatrembecka.com/media-gallery/
Marysia Trembecka
@MarysiaT