Purple Poets
Art for All | Access for All
projects

Poetry-In-Progress
- inspired by Exhibitions in the British Museum

VENUE 3: BRITISH MUSEUM

PROJECT 1 [3.1]
Indian Summer in England
24.05.2009
Garden & Cosmos
The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
28 May – 11 October 2009
A rare chance to see paintings in the royal collection of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur.
(invited viewing 24.05.2009)

Accessibility: reasonable. It is a large building, and there is a long distance to walk from public transport.

Writing possibilities: (circa February 2010): Although it's possible to use the long tables in the Great Room, it is extremely noisy, but there is an excellent, lesser used Coffee Shop on the Ground level, in the south west part of the building (turn left at the main entrance, and walk past the cloakroom, and to the end of the buiding).
Travel. Closest tube station: Tottenham Court Road, or Holborn; closest bus stops, the Chenies Street stop on Gower Street for Buses 24,29,14, 10, 73, 390).

PROJECT: ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and museums

FIFTH FIELD TRIP (18.03.2010)
National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martins Lane
(The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, invited viewing and NPG workshop)
workshop by NPG's Fran Wilde
special guest artist  and resource person Jo WOnder
additional portrait material by Heather Spears


FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
Quaker Centre Library
173 Euston Road
(Testimonies of Peace research for April 22nd, 2010 reading)

THIRD FIELD TRIP (24.05.2009)
British Museum, Great Russell Street
(Indian Summer, invited viewing)

SECOND FIELD TRIP (02.04.2009) on on-going projects
Wellcome Trust Library, Euston Road
(Acts of Mercy paintings)


FIRST FIELD TRIP (05.10.2006) and on-going projects
1930's Stained Glass Windows by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope,  (M.E.A. Rope)
The Crypt, Munster Square
first visit by photographer Tatiana Schenck (09.05.2009)
these windows were commissioned for St. Augustine's (Hackney)

background essay on M.E.A. Rope and footnotes: Art in the Crypt
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE


ACCESSING THE ARTS
A list of suitable venues and unsuitable venues
for performing (DDA compliant or reasonable adjustments noted)
and for holding meetings  (this is an on-going project)

The Purple Poets are delighted to co-produce poetry projects and readings inspired by Exhibitions and events hosted by  the Wellcome Trust,  the National Portrait Gallery, The British Museum, the Quaker Centre Friends Meeting House and Saint Mary Magdelene Church, as well as other Time Bank Cultural events, local history groups and festivals.

The Purple Poets are committed to celebrating all the things which make life in Camden delightful and extraordinary: Art, Democracy, Local Food, Community, History, Books. Our on-going project 'Art For All: Access For All' celebrates works of art at all levels which are easily accessible to everyone in Camden . As well as celebrating works of Art, this project will follow-on from our MAPPING DEMOCRACY Access for All project, by recording the ease of disability access to the various public facilities.

Poetry takes time. This is a poetry-in-progress project (if poets feel their first drafts aren't works they choose to share, they can add their second or third drafts, or second or third responses, when and as they choose).

A NOTE ON ACCESSIBILITY. We use a common-sense, practical 'reasonable adjustment' approach to accessibility. The Purple Poets are all members of the Third Age project, however, and as such, know other Third Age Project members are concerned with things such as whether the work of art is free to the public, long walks to reach the venue,  as well as stairs, and access to facilities. (Where the work can't be viewed easily, or the venue is either not DDA Compliant, or DDA Compliant, but more than a five minute walk from public transport, any problem will be noted.)