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PICK OF THE MONTH:  APRIL, 2012 

Friday, April 27th, 2012
Official Launch of Peter Daniel's excellent first book of poetry
Collecting Eggs
RADA, Gower Street, Bloomsbury, 7 p.m.
read Kim Morrissey's review of Collecting Eggs by Peter Daniels
in London Grip (www.londongrip.co.uk)

PICK OF THE MONTH:  JANUARY  2012 

on-going
Grayson Perry
The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
October 2011 top February 26th Exhibition
British Museum
Beautifully, intelligently organised. Stunning.
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Kim Morrissey

PICK OF THE MONTH: OCTOBER, 2011    

FRIDAY, October 7th, 2011
PURPLE POSTCARD POEMS
Purple Poets (and Friends) host the  3rd Annual
CAMDEN NATIONAL POETRY WEEK CELEBRATION``
at the Camden Town Hall, Judd Street. 
2011 theme: Games in Camden. 
Come read your own Poem on a Postcard
(14 lines or less) to the Mayor of Camden,
Councillor Abdul Quadir, at the
Camden Town Hall Council Chamber
3 p.m. to 5. Free. Everyone welcome
OPHELIA Youtube by artist Jo WOnder, for Workshop
please view, and write a poem

2011 National Poetry Day Poster

PICK OF THE MONTH:  AUGUST  2011 

Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Hiroshima Day Remembrance Ceremony
Tavistock Square, Camden, noon to one p.m.
The Purple Poets will be reading from their found poems
from the Quaker Library (Purple Poets and Peace Project)
immediately following Hetty Bower's speech

PICK OF THE MONTH: JULY 2011 

SATURDAY, July 23rd 2011
The Purple Poets will be reading
Postcard Poems about Childhood Games
including a poem dedicated to Councillor Jill Fraser
at the Queen's Crescent Summer Festival.
Special Guest: Councillor Jill Fraser
Purple Poets' poems, filmed by Michael G. Noonan on Youtube!
Festival events run from noon to 6 p.m.
Queen's Crescent: buses 24 and 46
closest bus stop: Malden Road or Prince of Wales Road
hosted by the Queen's Crescent Community Association www.qcca.org.uk



PICK OF THE MONTH:    OCTOBER,  2010
CALLING ALL POETS: COME HOME!
Purple Poets host the 2nd Annual
CAMDEN NATIONAL POETRY WEEK CELEBRATION

Friday, October 8^th 2010
2- 4 p.m.

guest speaker: The Mayor of Camden, Councillor Jonathan Simpson
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Hetty Bower Speaks for Peace
(a found poetry workshop)
youtube Hetty Bower: Speaking Peace

guest artist: Jo WOnder (www.jowonder.html)
 
The Purple Poets & Friends
2nd Annual Camden
National Poetry Day Celebration
on Friday afternoon.

PICK OF THE MONTH:    September  2010
Think No Evil of Us - My Life with Kenneth Williams
Written and Performed by David Benson
http://davidbenson.webs.com/
A Life in the Theatre. (last show September 19th, 2010)  A rare chance to see this intelligent, thoughtful, and very funny  play  about our much-loved resident Kenneth Williams.  For 3 performances only, as part of the Camden Fringe celebrations,  David Benson's Fringe First winning show comes to the New Diorama.
The show is first-rate, but come to the  new theatre and decide for yourself if Kenneth Williams would have preferred his flat  to the New Diorama Theatre (his flat was demolished, along with others, and the Fabian Society's first headquarters to make way for the British Land Triton Square development). A replica of the British Comedy Society's plaque to Kenneth Williams was unveiled in the foyer of the New Diorama Theatre on September 5th ,2010.
David Benson's PERFORMANCES:
Saturday 4th September at 8pm
Sunday 5th September at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday 19th September at 3:30pm.
New Diorama Theatre
15-16 Triton St, Regents Place,
London NW1 3BF
Telephone  0844 209 0344
http://www.newdiorama.com/


http://www.newdiorama.com/whats-on-at-new-diorama.aspx?id=34
(2009 Purple Poets Camden Heroes: Kenneth Williams)

Wheel-chair accessible, but a very small venue (60 seats) with limited front row seating) and a bit difficult to find the first time.
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POET S
Kim Morrissey

FIFTH FIELD TRIP (18.03.2010)
PICK OF THE MONTH:    March 2010
(The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, invited viewing and NPG workshop)

National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martins Lane
ACCESS: excellent lift on the left hand side. Also the NPG holds special monthly viewing sessions for visually disabled visitors (every third Thursday of the month).
WRITING POSSIBILITIES: Tables in caf  on basement floor are often available.
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Serajul Islam Molla

FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
PICK OF THE MONTH:   -first visit-  January 2010
Quakers Centre Library

Quaker Friends Meeting House
Euston Road
(Testimonies of Peace research to prepare for April 22nd, 2010 reading)
'Introduction to The Testimonies' talk by Quaker Centre Librarians Beverley and David
first 'found poetry' workshop by Kim Morrissey
using Quaker Testimonies of Peace
ACCESS: excellent, use side entrance  ramp by garden. Outer doors and library doors are automatic. Lifts.
WRITING POSSIBILITIES: Excellent. Two windows with built-in desks with power outlets for computers in the cafe, various tables and seats around the inner square for private reading and writing.
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Patsy Futatsugi

THIRD FIELD TRIP (24.05.2009)
PICK OF THE MONTH:     May 2009
(Indian Summer, invited viewing)
British Museum, Great Russell Street
ACCESS: excellent lift on the left hand side, to raise you to the exhibition level
WRITING POSSIBILITIES: very good.
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Islam Molla

SECOND FIELD TRIP (02.04.2009)
PICK OF THE MONTH:     February 2009
Acts of Mercy paintings, Wellcome Trust Library
Wellcome Trust, Euston Road
. SOME LIMITATIONS. In the cafe, there are only one or two seats offering power plugs for your computer, without having to sit on a stool; most placed where only people who can stand, or sit on a stool, can access the power outlet.
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Eppie Caredda  

FIRST FIELD TRIP AND ON-GOING PROJECT (05.10.2006)
PICK OF THE MONTH:       ON-GOING
researching and celebrating the Crypt's series of St. Augustine's (Hackney)
stained glass panels by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope, 1930's onwards
The Crypt, Munster Square, on National Poetry Day 2006, 2007 and
a Poetry Workshop every Saint George's Day (2006 onwards).
background: Art in the Crypt
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE
first visit by photographer Tatiana Schenck (09.05.2009)
(all photographs by Tatiana Schenck)
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Kim Morrissey  




PICK OF THE MONTH:   _   JUNE 2008
(up a flight of stairs, so not wheelchair accessible)
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Patsy Futatsugi

LONDON: Book Launch of DIVERS | 29-June-2008

7.00- 9.30pm.  A rare chance to see members of the Poetry Workshop celebrate their 25th Anniversary with the launch of their first anthology, DIVERS (published by Aark Arts Books).  Poets reading include: C. L. Dallat, Jane Draycott, Hugh Epstein, Chris Hedley-Dent, Elizabeth James, Duncan McGibbon, Leona Medlin, Kim Morrissey, Lesley Saunders, Sudeep Sen, and Richard Wright, with readings from the anthology of the poems of Richard Price and David Winzar. Sunday , 29th June 2008. Pentameters Theatre,  28 Heath Street Hampstead. Telephone 020 7435 3648. Tickets £8/£5.


PICK OF THE MONTH:     NOVEMBER 2007
Breath-taking!

Louise Bourgeois Exhibition, Tate Modern
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Kim Morrissey


PICK OF THE MONTH:     OCTOBER 2007
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Kim Morrissey

Playwright LENNOX RAPHAEL: panel discussion  
"The State of Black Theatre"
2 p.m.  13.10.2007; Arsenal Emirates Stadium
The Word Power Literature Festival and Book Fair
has a variety of literary events celebrating 200 years of achievements of writers of African descent and to commemorate the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade act of 1807. Taking place throughout October 2007, writers and publishers will be participating from Africa, the Caribbean, America, Europe and of course, our own home grown British writers. They will be apart of a long list of exciting events to expand your mind, including workshops, lectures, discussions and debates on subjects like religion, spirituality, history, creating wealth, young people and writing for the BBC.

BOOK FAIR: 13-14 OCTOBER 2007
@ The Emirates, Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London. N7
Saturday 13 October

2.00pm - 3.00pm
The State of Black Theatre – an
international discussion. Leading Black-British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah joins Barbados-based, Montserratian Yvonne Weekes, Denmark-based Trinidadian Raphael Lennox and Patricia Cumper (Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre) to discuss the state of Black theatre internationally.
Kwame Kwei-Armah (Fix Up/Elmina’s Kitchen) is a Black British playwright who has written two critically acclaimed plays. Trinidadian playwright Lennox Raphael’s first ground-breaking play, Che! ran in Manhattan for over a year. Yvonne Weekes is the Theatre Arts Coordinator in the Performing Arts Department at the Barbados Community College. She directed and produced plays which traveled to a number of the Caribbean islands. Patricia Cumper has been writing for the theatre in the Caribbean and the UK for nearly 30 years. Steven Luckie is a theatre director and former producer of Eclipse Theatre.

full programme: www.centerpriseliterature.com

Disability Warning: The Arsenal tube station has a very long corridor which is sometimes a wind tunnel and the Stadium is a long way from the tube station. Also the corridors for the panel discussion were cramped and crowded and the several workshops being held at the same time meant it was difficult to hear the panel participants.

PICK OF THE MONTH:     JUNE 2007
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Patsy Futatsugi

DRAMA:
TWO MEN TALKING
written and performed by Paul Browde and Murray Nossel
directed by Dan Milne, stage managing and lighting by Bernd Fauler
produced by Scamp Theatre    www.scamptheatre.com
UK TOUR blog at  www.twomentalking.com
Trafalgar Studios
14 Whitehall Street
London SW1A 2DY
June 5 - 23 2007
telephone 0870 060 6632

TWO MEN TALKING TO US
Review by Verden Redder


What’s the point of listening to other people’s stories or sharing yours?

Two Men Talking, a two-hander from psychiatrist Paul Browde and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Murray Nossel, will tell you.

Weaving deftly between their shared South African childhoods and school days, they intertwine widely differing experiences and separated development across several countries. In 1974 they were challenged by their teacher to tell each other a story. Following a chance meeting in New York 25 years later, they pick up and draw together the multi-coloured threads to produce a poly-dimensional tapestry of today.

As their divergent storylines blend, the point emerges, a powerful justification, creating shared and sharing experiences. Storytelling can help heal, may make even painful experiences bearable and might aid other people facing their own problems and demons. Their engaging, unscripted, constantly evolving performances combine vibrant acting, melodious singing, humour and drama to confront head-on such issues as apartheid, homosexuality, racism, HIV/AIDS, personal and family challenges. The product, I felt, was a surprisingly satisfying outcome.

Initially I felt uncomfortably like an intruder into their personal lives and experiences, entertaining though some might be and of universal concern as many undoubtedly are. However, at the point where they explained and proclaimed the need for storytelling I understood the universality and effectiveness of its appeal.

Think you have a story to tell? This may convince you. Think you don’t? It may persuade you, you do.

As Archbishop Tutu said of them, “Storytelling can become a journey to the truth. I commend their commitment and courage.”

-Verden Redder
June 5th 2007

PICK OF THE MONTH:    MAY 2007 (on-going)
RECOMMENDED BY THE PURPLE POETS
Carol Moon

POETRY:
Troubadour Coffee House Poetry Readings
www.coffeehousepoetry.org
(alternate Mondays at 8 p.m)
(closed during summer months)
poetry workshops |(check schedule)
poetry competition
The Troubadour
265 Old Brompton Road SW5
LONDON

'London's best kept poetry secret - until now!'  --- Kim Morrissey

CAROL'S MOBILITY ALERT: it is down a steep flight of stairs and they won't let you take food down to the Coffeehouse, so go early (or stay late) if you want to eat upstairs. Also, be aware that people can hear the loos flush in the Coffeehouse.

PROJECT: ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
(A series of gallery, museum, and historical walks by the Workshop Purple Poets and the Third Age Project's Drama Group, with artists, guides and historians to explore how Art inspires Poetry.

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