Anna Ko Kolkowska

Mika is still tired because of the jetlag, but he is very happy that he will be able to work with academics. The plan includes two performances that Mika will prepare. There will be elements of great performances, with great panache, but also very intimate moments. In this specific period, it is good to make a great show, but the main task of the show's producers - but also of the participants - is to evoke emotions in the audience. There are no live concerts at the moment so it can only be done through the screen. Mika will try to make the academics to show something they hide inside that they have not yet revealed in front of the audience. Ah, I forgot to mention that he is 30 minutes drive from the place where the candidates live.

Yes, Eriko. But not everybody can watch it. Once I managed to watch on FB one very interesting meeting of the candidates with a canadian stand-up comedian. But the next day it wasn't available anymore! And it was really interesting. I wanted some French fans to watch it too. Well, now I have a VPN (for one year) so I will watch anything in any country

Tomorrow at 7:30 (canadian time) - Friday 1:30 am in Europe Mika on Skype with academics. I hope we will be able to rewatch it on FB.

Looks like he is in Miami. And during the live he said that the next week he will start a 15 days quarantine in a canadian forest. And for the first time in his life he will be alone for so long. So we are hoping to see him more in the social media. The journalist proposed him to make some live on Instagram. "Why not. Maybe? We will see". So good morning Star Academie

We've seen some photos in a daylight. But look at this! At night, when the billboards have inner light. Mika liked this post on Twitter and tagged Aurelia Durand - the author of the poster

Here you can see the "short" version of Mika's drawing.

And another short video from Mika

A few seconds with Mika YouCut_20210228_203243712.mp4

Tonight 28/02/2021 France 2 at 8pm - they will talk about Mika's project. To watch on the Internet without VPN. https://www.stream4free.live/france-2-direct

Today a French fan posted in my FB group some sort of booklet created for the project. Here is the one about Mika's art. It sais: "For The Rite of Spring" It's about the dance celebrating spring but as well a declaration of our need and our "right" we have to watch the spring coming. 6 men are dancing in a circle - they are all inspired by dancing Mika photos. They look very similar, but they are not exactly the same. Are they dancing? Or are they longing for something? They look like they care about each other but they don't touch each other. This tender dance of 6 men in the urban context is destabilizing in it's sweetness. Urban landscape is hard to distinguish - is it Paris or Brooklyn? What is happening when the city is deserted? The city and its inhabitants, their love, their pain, happiness and fears. We know that we should stay at home, hidden and safe. But we have to stay strong as well. To defy gravity keeping the good mood and keeping our hearts warm.

Yesterday in the social media section I posted some Mika photos which are imo connected with Mika's poster. This is how I see his drawing. Today a French fan posted in my FB group some sort of booklet created for the project. Here is the one about Mika's art. It sais: "For The Rite of Spring" It's about the dance celebrating spring but as well a declaration of our need and our "right" we have to watch the spring coming. 6 men are dancing in a circle - they are all inspired by dancing Mika photos. They look very similar, but they are not exactly the same. Are they dancing? Or are they longing for something? They look like they care about each other but they don't touch each other. This tender dance of 6 men in the urban context is destabilizing in it's sweetness. Urban landscape is hard to distinguish - is it Paris or Brooklyn? What is happening when the city is deserted? The city and its inhabitants, their love, their pain, happiness and fears. We know that we should stay at home, hidden and safe. But we have to stay strong as well. To defy gravity keeping the good mood and keeping our hearts warm. Here is the whole documentary about all 10 posters. lesartistes.pdf

The interview for Europe 1 on YouTube - well, it's only the part about the project. The whole interview https://www.europe1.fr/emissions/linterview-verite-du-week-end/je-ne-voulais-pas-ecrire-dans-le-vide-comment-mika-prepare-son-retour-sur-scene-4028166

He is very positif. He looks toward the future and he has some ideas for new songs!!!! And he thinks about festivals Lollapalooza and Coachella!!!! Well, I think it's about 2022?

There will be no more the Revelation Tour. It's over. Mika is in a different place of his life. For sure one day he will go to Asia and South America and many other places but it will be something new.

Just to add my 3 cents. I tried the same approach in Poland and I contacted Alex. And then I contacted venues. But generally it's not venues are organizing concerts but the event agencies (as Alex call them "the promotors"). So someone has to take a risk to invest a lot of money into a concert or a tour and then it becomes possible. So money is the key of success In the current situation nobody will take any risk to invest money in a project that can be cancelled from one day to another. We have to be patient. Old Mika fans know it very well

I think all "models" on Mika's posters are him. Mika in a red hoodie from "Big Girl" Mika from the booklet "Origin of Love" Mika from the video "Staring at the Sun" Naked one - Mika as a David statue (or from Boum Boum Boum cover) Mika in a white t-shirt and jeans in the grass... well, just Mika

But he moves his head like wanting to show us the result of tainting 😁

Did he change his hair color? It looks like black!

All 10 posters

Mika is in Rome now and tonight he is recording a program and just after he goes to Paris for the preparation of the posters project. The idea of the posters came to him at the end of December - beginning of January. He was in a taxi. On the left he was passing next to the Palais de Tokio - closed. On the other side there were the posters (adds) for the movies which could not be seen, of the exhibitions which were closed. Why can't we use these posters for something different? Maybe just for the colors? But we can add a story behind it. So he decided to find some artists working in Paris. To find items which have never been shown. A color without emotions is nothing. So we really needed some stories behind the paintings. So Mika, Paloma and the director of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs have found 60 artists and chosen 9 of them. They are not famous artists. They work for brands, for the press. And Mika was working with Yasmine. This project reminds an old posters from La Belle Epoque. It was the time of beginning of the printed posters. The pandemic made us reevaluate certain things around us. It is really hard to have a possibility to put a poster on the "collone Morris" (it's a special place for advertisings in Paris - specially movies and theatres). What Mika misses the most is not the fact that the movies or shows were closes and we can't watch anything but he misses the "communion d'esprit" (communion of spirits) which gathers strangers to live together the same emotions, to be on the same wave. So what if we make this collective gesture just to put some poetic collective feeling to the city? The feeling we miss so much nowadays. Mika will install by himself the first poster this Sunday. For the first week there is almost 3'000 posters to install. They will be ready for Wednesday. It will take 4 weeks in the whole Paris. Mika is knows for his smile, his laughter, for his very positive attitude. Is he able to keep this freshness despite the pandemic, despite the life filled with sadness and tragic moments? He must to reach deeper. You have to be inspired as well by the things that hurt. You have to transform them. There is a lot of changes in my life in the same way as in others' lives. Even if I went through horrible moments... There is a beauty in finding a way to be reborn and become stronger. It's important not only in drawing but in life. It's inspiring. And this is you state of mind today? Yes, I am looking a way to provoke myself. Of course it's not my constant state of mind. It would be ridiculous. But from time to time I say to myself: OK. I'm in it. Let's do it. The journalist asks directly: You lost your mother recently. Yes, I lost my mom, but I lost as well a friend. We worked together from the time I was 7 yo. When people have seen us on the backstage or during a tour they didn't even know she was my mom because our relation was very direct. So I lost a person which was very close to me, who was enjoying the time, she was enjoying making projects like this one. I am sure she would like this project. It's as well for her. Then the journalist asks about Beirut: After 6 months do you believe that the situation in Beirut, in Lebanon will get better? Situation is really complicated. Does the futur looks better? No. There is so many thing to rebuild. It will take time. But what I believe is this resilience of the country and of Lebanese people. They change the topic again. This time it's the concert in Versailles. This is very rare that a concert pop is possible in this opera. So when the opportunity occurred I decided to do something different. For more this is so hard to make a concert today. You know what is in common in these two projets: the posters and the concert in Opera? Usually - in normal conditions - you say to the musicians : we have 4 days to create a concert with arrangements which are not created yet, we will invent everything in a rehearsal room. Are gonna do it? Normally they say: you are crazy! Maybe in one year! But now it becomes possible. Urgency provokes that people have to collaborate and it can be really useful to the culture. Can you imagine how the concerts will look like in the future? Will they be like before (the pandemic)? I think that the transition will take much longer that we want to admit. And this is the negative part. And the positive part is that for sure it will come back. And it will be like an explosion. It will be great.

It's hard to say after what we can read for the moment. They mention the French format - so many "protagonists" in one episode. On the other hand it sounds like one "protagonist" in each episode. So I am confused. We have to wait for more details.

It is really a wonderful idea to make it available worldwide!

I am not sure. The leash looks different. But who knows. Andy has deleted this story.

It was a song medley where all teachers were singing. So it's nice they added Mika.