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Art for All | Access for All
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Poetry-In-Progress


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).The West Euston Purple Poets are delighted to co-produce poetry projects and readings inspired by Exhibitions and events. We have co-produced projects using works in The Crypt, The Wellcome Trust,  The British Museum, The Quaker Centre, The National Portrait Gallery, as well as other Time Bank Cultural events, local history groups and festivals.


A NOTE ON ACCESSIBILITY. the West Euston ime Bank Purple Poets use a common-sense, practical 'reasonable adjustment' approach to accessibility. We, and 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.)

PROJECTS WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS:


Booking Now!
The Quaker Testimonies of Peace reading
Purple Poets and Friends 22.04.2010

LIST OF VENUES AND PROJECTS

VENUE 5: THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
PROJECT 5.1

MARCH 18, 2010
The Indian Portrait 1560 - 1860 Exhibition
A Tour and Afternoon Workshop
with Fran Wilde (National Portrait Gallery)
and Kim Morrissey (WETB)
with special guest artist Jo WOnder
additional portrait material by Heather Spears


VENUE 4: THE QUAKER CENTRE
PROJECT 4.1
Purple Poets and Peace
ONGOING UNTIL APRIL 22, 2010
A found poetry project
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.
http://www.quaker.org.uk/quaker-centre-events


VENUE 3: THE BRITISH MUSEUM
PROJECT 3.1
Indian Summer in England
Garden and Cosmos
poems inspired by the exhibition
(invited viewing 24.05.2009)
Indian Summer in England

VENUE 2:  THE WELLCOME TRUST
PROJECT 4  [2.4]
29.04. 2010   first visit and poetry workshop
Playing Snakes and Ladders:
poems on favourite objects
in the Wellcome Collection
including the 18th century Snakes and Ladders board
and the purple jellybelly baby.
- a 15 minute reading by the Purple Poets
of found poems and original poems
at the 2nd Annual Collection Picnic,
Cumberland Market, June 26, 2010
This will also include poems on the bacterial felting project
of 2010 Wellcome guest artists Prick Your Finger, who will be working
with West Euston Time Bank members and The Homework Club
to knit, felt, dye, sew, glue, embroider, and embroider to create bacterial themed squares
for a gigantic board of 'Snakes and Ladders.'

PROJECT 4  [2.4]
SECOND ANNUAL Collection Picnic, Cumberland Market
Playing Snakes and Ladders:
poems on favourite objects
in the Wellcome Collection
to be performed June 26 2010 at the Picnic

29.04. 2010   first visit and poetry workshop
Playing Snakes and Ladders will celebrate favourite objects in the Wellcome collection, including the 18th century Snakes and Ladders board
Bernal's Picasso, Jeremy Bentham's Preserved Skin, King George lll's hair
poems on the Cayley Robinson paintings The Acts of Mercy,
and the purple jellybelly baby.
- a 15 minute reading by the Purple Poets
(and Friends) of found poems and original poems
from an on-going project
at the 2nd Annual Collection Picnic,
Cumberland Market, June 26, 2010
This reading will also include poems on the bacterial felting project
of 2010 Wellcome guest artists Prick Your Finger, who will be working
with West Euston Time Bank members and The Homework Club
to knit, dye, sew, glue, embroider, and felt to create squares based on bacterial images
for a gigantic uesable art board of 'Snakes and Ladders.'

PROJECT 3 [2.3]
www.jowonder.com
Six Days Good-bye Poems to Ophelia
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
- film and bacterial project by Wellcome Trust artist JoWOnder
first shown at the Purple Poets' Camden Heroes
National Poetry Day Celebration
Camden Town Hall
October 8th 2009

PROJECT 2  [2.2]
The Purple Poets'  Poetry Tree (etc.)
FIRST ANNUAL Collection Picnic, Cumberland Market
Wellcome/West Euston Time Bank/Third Age Project Midsummer Collection Picnic
H-Pod and Cumberland Market
Saurday afternoon, 24.06.2009    

2.2.a.  --The Purple Poets' Poetry Tree (now in the Wellcome Collection archives)

2.2.b --West Euston Time Bank and Third Age Project director Tony Bloor's contribution of his private collections for display.

2.c. -- West Euston Time Bank and Third Age Project  members contribution to the film of the Picnic.

2.2.d --Third Age Project volunteers cupcakes were baked the morning of the picnic at Acorn House Restaurant kitchens and given away at the picnic.
 With thanks to Third Age Project and also
Acorn House Restaurant Ltd.
69 Swinton Street
London WC1X 9NT
telephone: 0207 812 1842


PROJECT 2.1
Poetry Workshop at the Wellcome Trust:
The Acts of Mercy
1.04.2009; 02.04.2009
THE Acts of Mercy: WELLCOME TRUST LIBRARY
(Bithi Das) 01.04.2009

Wellcome Acts of Mercy
(Patsy Futatsugi) 02.04.2009



VENUE 1: THE CRYPT

PROJECT 1.5 
A Plaque for M.E.A. Rope 
projected day: March 9th  2011
To celebrate International Womens' Day 2011 and the artist Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope (who died March 9th 1988) we would like to place a plaque at the former Boston Street site (now Hackney City Farm) celebrating her 'Saint Leonard' Haggerston stained glass window panel depicting BOSTON STREET and the SUFFOLK ARMS PUB.

PROJECT 1.4  
A Book-in-Progress written about M.E.A.Rope     
Artist Tatiana Schenk will be photographing The Crypt's M.E.A. Rope windows and also photographing the Haggerston sites depicted in the window, to celebrate International Womens' Day 2011. Project: To further research the history of the windows, the artist and the church.
Tatiana's first visit to The Crypt: May 6th 2009.

PROJECT 1.3      
Poems about our Stained Glass Windows

The Crypt of Saint Mary Magdalene, Munster Square
'Saint Leonard. lower panel detail: Boston Street'
-poems for Saint Leonard (first draft 04.10.2006)

'Saint Leonard' Window  (M.E.A.Rope stained glass panel; photograph by Tatiana Schenk, 2009)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 'Art and the Crypt'

PROJECT 1.2   Poems for Saint George (and the Dragon)
As part of our on-going activities, on Saint George's Day and National Poetry Day, we discuss the  Margaret Edith Rope panels of the stained glass saints, which are on permanent display in the Crypt of Saint Mary Magdalene, Munster Square.

April 23 ---  poems for St. George's Day (Patron Saint of England)

'Saint George' Window  (M.E.A. Rope stained glass panel, 1934; photograph by Tatiana Schenck, 2009)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 'Art and the Crypt'


PROJECT 1.1 TALK ON M.E.A. Rope
The stained glass windows of M.E.A. Rope
commissioned for Saint Augustine's church, Haggerston 1931-1947
Art and the Crypt: The Saints  A short talk about stained glass designer M.E.A. Rope
Saint George - Saint George's Day "Saint and Myth"
Saint Leonard - National Poetry Day "Art and the Crypt"
The Crypt, National Poetry Day 2006

OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR INSPIRATION IN BLOOMSBURY AND WEST EUSTON:

British Library Galleries
Euston Road
Travel:
Closest Tube Station: Euston, King's Cross/Saint Pancras
Closest bus stops: British Library stop on Euston Road.


Hogarth's  'March of the Guards to Finchley'  The Foundling Museum
Brunswick Square
Travel:
Closest tube station: Russell Square.
Closest bus stops: Southhampton Road

The Dickens Museum
Doughty Street
Travel:
Closest tube station: Russell Square (not very close).
Closest bus stops: Theobold's Road; Gray's Inn Road.

Sir John Soanes Museum
Lincoln Inn
Travel:
Closest tube station: Holborn.
Closest bus stops: Kingsway,  High Holborn.

Tavistock Square
Peace Garden
established to commemorate Hiroshima

Regent's Park Rose Garden
walks; meet at Green Light Pharmacy
(check with Josie at the H-Pod for times)


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)