WEST EUSTON TIME BANK
Purple Poets
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
Tel: 0207 383 4922
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk
writer-in-residence Kim
Morrissey
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Friday October 8th
Camden's National Poetry Week Celebrations
hosted by the Purple Poets
Camden Town Halll
Judd Street
2-4 p.m.
Tea hosted by the Mayor .
This year's theme is 'HOME'
Send us your Poem on a Postcard
and join us, reading to the Mayor
Saturday afternoon, (noon onwards)
June 26, 2010
2nd Annual 'Collection' Cumberland Market Community Picnic
hosted by Wellcome Trust, Third Age Project,
and West Euston Time Bank
June 26, 2010
4 p.m. Reading
Brunswick Square
Fayre on the Square
(National Hospital for Neurology and neurosurgery
Brain Trauma Unit fund-raiser)
UP-COMING IDEAS:
Sometime In 2010:
Translations
'How To read A Poem'
a special reading/ workshop by William Radice
(Penguin editions translator of the poet Tagore).
date and venue TBA.
WILLIAM RADICE'S LATEST WORK WAS:
TURANDOT by Puccini
(translated by William Radice)
English National Opera
ENO Opening Night October 8th 2009
www.williamradice.con
International Women's Day 2011
M.E.A. Rope project:
to restore the Boston Street sign
to its location in Hackney city Farm grounds
to honour the stained glass window
created by M.E.A. Rope for St. Augustine's
Haggerston (now in the Crypt) Saint Leonard Stained Glass
Window
featuring a double-decker bus and little boys
playing cricket on Boston Street, in front of the local pub
THE HUMAN LIBRARY AT CUMBERLAND MARKET
(for Cumberland Market Celebrations 2010)
Purple Poets
and Friends
and Peace
(a found poetry project)
-- a West Euston Time Bank co-production with
The Quaker Centre, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
To celebrate the first Quaker Peace Testimony in 1660/1.
a series of readings and workshops throughout the year.
first public reading of poems-in-progress: April 22nd 2010.
Tor more information about how to be involved with
this on-going project, please click here: http://www.quaker.org.uk/quaker-centre-events
Postcard Poems Golden
Gazette Editor Rosemary Howes interviewed the Purple Poets
about the HEROES ON POSTCARDS celebration
in the September issue of the Camden Golden Gazette,
available on-line and in all Camden Public
Libraries.
Purple Poets Collecting Words:
The Poetry Tree
(now in the Wellcome Trust archive)
Wellcome Trust, Third Age Project and West Euston Time Bank
1st Annual Collection Picnic
Cumberland Market Community Fair
May 2009
Our On-Going Projects (start
year: 2009): MAPPING DEMOCRACY
in association with Volunteers from
The Third Age Project
West Euston Time Bank
Camden Federation of Private Tenants
Camden Liason Group for Physical Disabilities and Visual Impaiments
Time Banking UK
(this project suggests A Model Constitution for
your residents' association)
Our On-Going
Project 2008 BOOK
EXCHANGE BOX LAUNCHES (WITH READINGS)
BOOK EXCHANGE BOX LAUNCHES
(WITH READINGS) SO FAR:
Hilldrop and
Caledonian Road Time Bank at their Open Day July 15, 2009
Surma Centre. Robert
Street, West Euston 01.04.2009.
Samuel Lithgow
Centre (at Netley School) After School Club 05.03.2009.
BBC Radio Light
Entertainment Department, Henry Wood House, London, 05.03.2009.
Pain Management
Clinic Waiting Room, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen's
Square, London, 05.03.2009.
Camden Town Hall:
Members Room 19.01.2009, Staff Cafeteria 27.01.2009, Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registration Room 05.03.2009, Councillors' Surgeries Waiting Area
05.03.2009.
Camden Town Hall:
Councillors' Surgeries Waiting Area 05.03.2009.
Camden Town Hall:
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Room 05.03.2009,
Saint Lukes' Time
Bank (at Finsbury Arts Festival) 28.02.2009.
Camden Town Hall:
Staff Cafeteria 27.01.2009.
Camden Town Hall:
Members Room 19.01.2009.
approval of the
project at the West Euston Time Bank Eid and Diwali Celebrations at the H-Pod
on 30.10.2008, before the Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Nural Islam.
the launch of the
Book Exchange at the Hillwood Resource Centre (Age Concern),
30 Eversholt Street, on 24.10.2008 before the Deputy Mayor of Camden, Councillor
Omar Faruque Ansari
the launch of the
Book Exchange at The Crypt on 16.10.2008
the official launch
of the Book Exchange at The H-Pod, Cumberland Market on
09.10.2008
Wendy French
(guest: National Poetry Day, October 2006)
Rose Hacker
(Norah Platt Prize Presenter, October 2006)
(guest: 10th Anniversary T.A.P. June 2007)
Miriam Halahmy
took part in the found poetry
Purple Poets for Peace Reading
April 22nd 2010, Quaker Centre
Kim Morrissey
(National Poetry Day, October 2006, 2007)
Judge: First Annual Norah Platt Poetry Prize 2006
Purple Poets for Peace Reading,
April 22nd, Quaker Center
William Radice
International Language Day
(upcoming: January 2010)
www.williamradice.com
Lennox Raphael
(Black History Month Celebration October 2007)
Katja Schmidt
contributed a correction
to an original text and rough translation
in the found poetry
Purple Poets for Peace Reading
April 22nd 2010, Quaker Centre
Marshal
Seltzer
http://www.cenlyt.com
PROJECT: Webpage Design
Text Accessible webpages
an e-mail conversation
with Cenlyt Designer Marshal Seltzer
Sudeep Sen
(National Poetry Day Virtual Guest, 2006)
Heather Spears
(poet and artist)
Resource artist for National Portrait Gallery Workshop
(led by Fran Wilde (NPG) and Kim Morrissey)
18.03.2010
SPECIAL GUEST:
International Womens' Day Dance
Saturday March 6, 2010
National Poetry Day
Camden writers - sketches - display
upcoming: The Art of Poetry
International Womens' Day
(upcoming: Easter 2010)
www.heatherspears.com
Leslie Wilson
took part in the found poetry
Purple Poets for Peace Reading
April 22nd 2010, Quaker Centre
The Tads (Third Age Project Drama Group)
under the direction of Gary Kielty
take part in Camden National Poetry Day celebrations
(held at the Camden Town Hall).
and the Purple Poets and Peace project 2010.
They meet ever Thursday 10:30 to noon
at the Crypt Centre, Munster Square. London NW1 3PL
THE FINE LINE DANCERS
(Third Age Project) will be taking part in
The Camden National Poetry Day Celebrations
(held at the Camden Town Hall).
dance instructor: Alicia Frost
They meet every Thursday 1-2
at the Samuel Lithgow Centre
69-75 Stanhope Street. London. NW1 3LD
JoWOnder
(multi-media artist)
-will be making a collage of Purple Poets Found Poetry
Quaker Peace Testimonies reading
April 22nd 2010 (2:30-4 pm, Quakers Centre, Euston Road)
-Special Guest Artist to accomany the Purple Poets
on the National Portrait Gallery Tour The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 Exhibition
(workshop led by Fran Wilde (NPG) and Kim Morrissey)
18.03.2010, National Portrait Gallery, room 34.
-National Poetry Day 2009
showing of her video work-in-progress:
'Six Days Good-bye Poems to Ophelia'
(supported by the Wellcome Trust)
Camden Town Hall
CAPITAL AGE WINTER FESTIVAL
(Thursday February 8th 2007) London City Hall
LOPSG's FirstAnnual Capital Age Winter Festival
The Chamber, City Hall, Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
1 - 5 p.m. SOLD OUT!
HEROES ON POSTCARDS
Camden Town Hall
An Audience With the Mayor of Camden
Councillor Omar Faruque Ansari
2 - 5 in the Camden Town Hall
Council Chamber, Judd Street
2009 Purple Poets' poster by
Urmi Alim and cartoonist Colin
Shelbourn
FOUR O'CLOCK TEA WITH THE MAYOR OF CAMDEN
host: Kim
Morrissey
writer-in-residence, Purple Poets
West Euston Time Bank
featuring 'Six Day Good-bye Poems to Ophelia a film in progress by artist JoWOnder
(bacterial painting)
this project is supported by the Wellcome Trust
Day Four, with poems, including Ophelia, This is Your Mother by Purple Poet Bithi Das
and Ophelia (the person you are calling) by Kim Morrissey
THEME: WORK
"the work of a poet
is to dream." - Kim Morrissey
ON-GOING PROJECT:
THE PURPLE POETS BOOK EXCHANGE BOXES
Scheme launched on
on National Poetry Day 2008 at H-Pod
host: Kim
Morrissey
writer-in-residence, Purple Poets
West Euston Time Bank
THEME: IDENTITY
THE PURPLE POETS HOSTED THE
2006 LONDON TIME BANK POETS
READING FOR ALL LONDON TIME BANKS
Diorama 4 Art Gallery
3-7 Euston Centre
Regents Place, London
NW1 3JG
THE PURPLE POETS
READ WITH 12 OTHER TIME BANK
POETRY GROUPS
(all founded with a grant
from the Arts Council's
Big Lottery fund)
host: Karen Lyon
New Economics Foundation
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street guest poet: Andrew Motion
"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter."
October 9th 2007 WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
2007: Kim Morrissey, Islam Molla and Nahar Islam read
at the Enfield Mental Health Users (EMU) Celebration
7:30 The Intimate Theatre, 521 Green Lanes,
Palmer's Green, London N13 4DH
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: LONDON ARTS EVENTS
(click here to see reviews) Haliburton Evening
(Network Canada) The Pembroke Pub, April 21st 2009 DIVERS
book Launch, Pentameters Theatre, June 29th 2008 Louise Bourgeouis
Exhibition, Tate Modern, October 2007 - Jan. 2008 Playwright LENNOX
RAPHAEL "The State of Black Theatre"
(panel discussion at 2 p.m. 13.10.2007) WORD POWER FESTIVAL TWO MEN TALKING
June 5 - 23 2007 coffee-house
poetry at the Troubadour (alternate Mondays, on-going)
ARCHIVES: First Annual Norah Platt Poetry
Prize 2006
judge (70 and over): Kim Morrissey; presented by Camden New Journal
Columnist Rose Hacker
judges (12 and under category): Tony Bloor and Shahanara Begum;
presented by Camden Councillors Penny Abraham, Arthur Graves,
and The Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Jill Fraser
Our Time Bank Project flows
Washing away the old obstacles
Sadness, prejudice, poverty, woes
Like a stream we flow together
Gathering our friends as we go
Mary Norah Kathy Theresa
Flo
Streams flowing into streams
Like our lives have flown
Into deeper waters
Collecting friends and sharing
Laughing, loving, learning
Remembering joy
We are the guardians
We are the sentries
We are the protectors
We are the stream.
West Euston Time Bank Poets
Collective Poem
performed on National Poetry Day
at the Poetry Café
London, England (guest poet: Andrew Motion)
6th October 2005
OUR PURPLE POET WEBSITE IS DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY
OF WEST EUSTON TIME BANK POET NORAH PLATT
AND FOUNDING PURPLE POET KATHY RANDLE
Time Banks and Time Banking
The Four Core Values.
1. We treat people as assets.
We support the positive actions people can
and want to do for their community.
2. We are re-defining work
Regardless of the task,
everyone's time is valued equally
we value whatever it takes to make
neighbourhoods safe and vibrant.
3.We reciprocate.
We require that everyone gives something back
ensuring all in our society have the opportunity
to be involved in their community.
4. We support the development of social networks.
These require ongoing investments of social capital
generated by trust, reciprocity and civic engagement.
For more information about any of
our projects
phone Tony Bloor: +44-(0)20 7383 4922 West Euston Third Age
Project
http://www.thirdageproject.org.uk/
info@thirdageproject.org.uk
The Purple Poets meet
almost every Thursday at the Crypt
between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
(phone to confirm there is a session)
(0)20 7383 4922
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
0207 383 4922
H-Pod events
Cumberland Market
0207 387 4382
Our Workshop Facilitators:
Tony Bloor, Nurjahan Urmi, Josie Nakos
Our Time Bank Broker:
(as of August 2009, on maternity leave)
Shahanara Begum
Our Writer-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey
The West Euston Time Bank Purple Poets Poetry Workshop
was founded in 2005 with a grant from The Arts Council. It s supporters
include
The Carnegie Trust, Bridge City Trust,
The Third Age Project, and the new economics foundation.
WETB is affiliated with Time Banking UK
(Stroud).
TBUK
Time Banking UK,
The Exchange,
Brick Row,
Stroud GL5 1DF
Tel: 01453 750952
info@timebanks.co.uk
Hilldrop and
Caledonian Road Time Bank at their Open Day July 15, 2009
