𝐒𝐭 𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞’𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤 2025
To everybody who donated I couldn’t be more thankful to you and for all your messages of love and support throughout this time. This charity means so much to me on such a personal level and to be able to extend my thanks for all they did for my Mum, as well and my Dad and I, by raising money for them means the world to me.
I am so proud to say that we raised, as of me writing this, £2,020!!!
I’m also so grateful to have walked with such wonderful company.
Being able to look around and be in an environment of remembrance that was so celebratory is so important and inspiring to have experienced.
In true Sally fashion I spoke the entire 11 miles, 4 hours and 2 minutes, with my dearest @__maddiecrowther and I know my Mum wouldn’t have had it any other way, as I can promise you that if she was walking next to me too there wouldn’t have been a dull or silent moment the entire time either. 🤍
Dear Mum,
There will never be enough to say or the right words to describe the grief I’ve been left in, to be someone to lose a parent at such a young age is a tragedy, let alone everything else that accompanies it.
I can hear the things you’d say to everything my Dad and I do, the things you’d like me to tell you about and to “take lots of photos” to send to you later, and I fear it will stay as so for the rest of my days, but then again I would never not want to be haunted by your familiarity and loving presence in everything I do.
Haunt me everyday and I would be happy.
Your devotion to people, the kindness and selfless attitude you wore was a marvel and it was only one upped by your explicit quirkiness and individuality that shone through everything you did, even when I told you I didn’t like the bizarre printed clothing you’d wear you’d just say back “Well I don’t like the fact that you wear black all the time”.
What I’d give to open the door and for you to greet me in one of those whacky outfits once more is inexplainable.
Trusting our own mortality is the greatest mistake that we all make when in reality we should question it everyday and live as if the sun will never meet us again.
I will be doing the Midnight Walk on 28th June 2025 in support of St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice, who cared for my mum in the last weeks of her life, and of course for my darling Mum.
I may be walking alone physically but in spirit I know who’s holding my hand the whole 11 miles.
Any donations or sharing of my page would be greatly appreciated (link in my bio).
Thank you, for everything. I love you “ever day” and will always be proud to call you my Mum.
Your Daughter, Fay Sally McAvan
- 10.10.1967 - 24.03.2025 -
8/8
To create is to be seen and to be known is to be loved.
The vulnerability to open up as an artist, to communicate what you see in your head to others is terribly daunting and yet choosing to continuously reinvent myself over these past 6 months through these videos has been one of the most rewarding and liberating things I have ever done.
There were times when I felt that the distraction of my choreography had strangled my personal life and that I’d become all consumed by my work and yet the outlet of creating has saved me in the long run.
I hope you can see a part of myself in my work, even if you cannot see who I am all of the time.
To all 29 of the artists who have been part of the process, whether you were in 1 video or 4, I thank you from the bottom of my heart that you took time out of your lives, trusted me and looked after my work with such care, I am endlessly grateful to every single one of you.
To Elizabeth & Anna thank you for being the life support to every part of me, not just with the choreography & filming but with the thing we all do called living. I love you both immeasurably and am forever grateful to have you both in my life.
And finally to everyone that has watched the videos that we have posted I cannot thank you enough for your support, having your favourites, talking to me about my work and wanting to see more of the things that have formed in my head.
Thank you, for caring.
Here’s to the end of 8/8, and to the start of it all.
