2010 LOPSG Capital Age Festival (CAF)
SECOND DAY
(July 10) OF THE FESTIVAL
CANCELLED
organiser:
Paul Margrave

 BACKGROUND READING:
THE MAYOR'S CULTURAL STRATEGY 2012 AND BEYOND
(DRAFT FEBRUARY 2010)
"London’s cultural sector is one of its prime assets, and ensuring that there is
combination of prestigious, world-class institutions alongside a more informal ecology
of smaller venues, festivals, events and night-time economy activities is key to both the
Mayor’s economic and cultural policies for London." page 14 (of 81)
`

London Assembly Response to the earlier Cultural Strategy draft 2009 -2012
(January 21, 2009)

Poems-in-progress .... .         History of the Project ........ The Mayor: Culture 2012 (draft 2010)

WHY FUND THE ARTS? | THE CANADIAN MODEL
for every $1 given in grants $1.34 is returned to the community

LOPSG SPONSORED SUMMER FESTIVAL
Southbank, Coin Street Festival

LOPSG
CAPITAL AGE WINTER FESTIVAL 2007
LONDON CITY HALL
TIME BANK PURPLE POETS
INVITED GUESTS

LOPSG
CAPITAL AGE SUMMER FESTIVAL 2007
SOUTH BANK, COIN STREET
TIME BANK PURPLE POETS
INVITED GUESTS


SUMMER CAPITAL AGE FESTIVAL 2010
SECOND DAY OF THE PROGRAMME CANCELLED
(including 'Introduction to Dance' reading by the Purple Poets)
Saturday July 10, 2010 
organiser: Paul Margrave

The Purple Poets performed their poem cycle,
INTRODUCTION TO DANCE
at theTriton Square Festival, West Euston
July 1st 2010
at 1:30 p.m.
 
CAPITAL AGE SUMMER FESTIVAL 2011
July 10, 2011
South Bank, Coin Street
Purple Poets
Dance Poetry Display
by Paul Margrave

LOPSG  (LONDON OLDER PEOPLE'S STRATEGY GROUP
is an umbrella group of over 250 organisations concerned with the
health, education, culture and happiness of Older People.  
Purple Poet s Islam Molla and Bithi Das have attended meetings over the years, as
Third Age Project representatives,
and Purple Poet Ferdous Rahman is on the Executive of LOPSG.
out-going executive summer 2010:
Eileen McNally, Chair
Mark Windisch, Treasurer

Full membership is open to all older people’s voluntary groups,
and there is no membership fee. Individual older Londoners
are also welcome to join but will not be entitled
to vote at the Annual General Meeting.

Members will receive details of all meetings,
together with copies of the quarterly newsletter Strategy.

To join, please e-mail     secretary@lopsg.org.uk.
2010
Leap of Faith
Montage Theatre Arts
Carl Campbell Recycled Teenagers
Claremont Project

EKTA

Green Candle Senior Dancers

Open Age

Failite Social Club.

2009 CANCELLED
2008
CLORE BALLROOM

1.30pm Official launch by Richard Barnes, Deputy Mayor

Hoxton Singers

Totlyn Jackson

2pm Company  of Elders

3pm The Big Chair Dance

3.45pm Company of Elders

4pm Montage Theatre

4.15pm Will Gaines

RIVERSIDE TERRACE

1pm Nostalgia Steel Pans

1.30pm Will Gaines

2pm Elsa Perez

2.15pm Conga Workshop

2.30pm Conga

BAR FOYER

1.15pm Matt Ross Quintet, buskers

2.15pm Hoxton Singers

Newham Age Concern Choir

Matt Ross Quintet

Sunshine Grannies

Blackfriars Nightingales

Patsy Scott

2.30pm Conga

RIVERSIDE FOYER

1.15pm Leap of Faith

2.30pm Nostalgia Steel Pans
Conga


2007

Capital Age Festival Programme:
Ragroof Stage
2.00 Grand Festival Opening with a festival ode from The Purple Poets
2.15 Riverside: A Jazz sing along in the company of mature students from Morley College
2.35 Moving into Age Dancers: a fusion of salsa, jazz and popular based styles
2.45 Recycled Teenagers from the Carl Campbell Dance Company 7
3.00 Riverside
3.30 Harrow Asian Dancers and the Iberian Dancers
3.50 Sunshine Grannies wild and comic renditions of folk songs from Jamaica
4.20 Green Candle Senior Dancers
4.30 Ragroof Theatre present:
Shall We Dance?
Memories of dance brought back to life by glamorous dancing couples
5.30 Proteas Dance (South African Quadrille)
5.40 Grand Festival Finale

Paradise - Sunken Garden Incorporating magic, dance and physical theatre, ‘Paradise’ is a specially commissioned adaptation from First Framework. The performance is devised from over 50 recordings of multi-cultural Londoners descriptions of what Paradise means to them. Seating is limited so be sure to book early from the Paradise Booking Booth near the festival information point.
Paradise Performances at:2.15, 3.25, 3.45-4.25, 5.10-5.50
Tea Tent
Pause and recharge your batteries with tea and cakes from the legendary Blackfriars Settlement Tea Team. Look out for the Blackfriars Nightingales and discover the instant poet in you with the aid of the Purple Poets from London’s Time Banks
Dance Stage- Riverside Walkway
Watch the dance and join in the dance with workshops from East London Dance. Festival sounds from DJ Sisamo and live music from Nostalgia and Paseo Malanga

2.15-2.55: Dance Street Style
3.10-3.55: African-Caribbean Celebration
4.30-4.50 The Conga
5.20-0.00: Dance Latin Style

Look out for The Lucianites,
Ekta, Jackie and Ros, the Dominican Dancers and the Merton and Morton line dancers.
Music Stage - Observation Point ‘One Love’ is an exciting new Capital Age Commission from Caribbean diva Totlyn Jackson. One Love charts the story of Jamaican Music from rural folk through to jazz and reggae. In between the sets relax to music from the Matt Ross Quartet, cabaret numbers from Mo and Bo, poetry from the Purple Poets, and songs from Los Anos Dorados and the Sunshine Grannies:
The Capital Age Festival highlights the importance of active participation by older people, as performers, audience members and volunteers. The event is part of the annual Coin Street Festival and this year fans will be treated to a launch event 'A Touch of Magic', with the Sunshine Grannies, on Friday 17 August in the Scoop at More London from 12.30 - 2pm.
In addition to the festival there will be a 'Celebrating Age' exhibition at City Hall from 10 - 20 August. The exhibition provides an insight into the lives of fifteen Londoners aged over sixty, focusing on the interests of older Londoners and challenging negative stereotypes.

JULY 2010:   HISTORY OF THE PURPLE POETS' INTRODUCTION TO DANCE

The Purple Poets are delighted to have our first co-production with the Third Age Project's newly formed Fine Line Dancers (led by former TADs drama teacher Alicia Frost). Our  first performance together will be on July 1st 2010 (Canada Day) at the Triton Square Festival. Individual Purple Poets have been actively involved, through the years,  in Country Dancing, Belly Dancing, Tai Chi, Line-Dancing,  Drama, Music, Exercise, Education, and Tai Chi groups and classes with other members of the West Euston Time Bank and Third Age Project.  Most recently,  for the Saint George's Day Celebrations, 2010 at Dick Collins Hall,  members took part in a beautiful May Pole Traditional Dance organised by musician and traditional music and dance expert Chris Turner.

Although we know Chris as that nice bloke who used to teach the Third Age Project's Country Dance,  and a talented Emcee and Singing teacher, Chris is also an expert in Morris Dancing, Long Sword dancing, and English Social Dance from Tudor and Stuart times, through Cromwell's Commonwealth to the Victorian era. He is the editor of the Set and Turn Single magazine. He is a full time professional musician (piano, guitar, concertina, melodeon ) working almost entirely in the idiom of traditional English song and dance.His first book THE RAMBLINGS OF A LONDON GENTLEMAN’ (A book of country dances by Chris Turner Illustrated by Veleaf) was published in 2005 .

People who attended the Saint George's Day Celebration also joined in an Everyone Welcome dance workshop by Third Age Project's Country Dance Teacher,  acclaimed dance caller, Mary Panton (http://www.kan83.dial.pipex.com/panton.htm). Mary was one of the first dance callers to use non-gendered terms in her calling. 

The Purple Poets, individually and through their various organisations have actively supported LOPSG, through the years, and attended meetings representing these organisations. As artists, The Purple Poets attended both the  LOPSG CAPITAL AGE Winter Festival 2006  and the LOPSG CAPITAL AGE Summer Festival 2007 as Invited Guests.

THE ARTS AND ART THERAPY: With their invitation to take part in the National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery's fund-raising picnic, (June 26, 2010 Brunswick Square 4 p.m. reading) to raise money for a Brain Trauma unit, the Purple Poets have begun to  research the Nationa;l's history, and also create found poetry, using Doctor Natasha Curran's latest medical paper as their source material (this paper was presented at the National Pain Conference in Manchester April 19, 2010; Doctor Natasha Curran works in the Pain Management Clinic, National Hospital For Neurology).  The Purple Poets have been running a survey on Arts and Accessibility (Access For All),  as well as listing free space for poets to hold meetings and workshops, as well as perform.   Time Bank Purple Poet, Kim Morrissey held a poetry workshop to the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association's London conference, June 19, 2010.

ARCHIVES:

Sunday 19 August 2007
SOUTHBANK 2-6 p.m.


Capital Age Summer Festival
LOPSG's fifth annual festival

SCHEDULE:

OPENING POEM FOR THE FESTIVAL
READ BY JEAN WATT AT 2 p.m.

READING BY THE PURPLE POETS
3:45 on the Music Stage, Observation Point

A POET AT YOUR TABLE
Play the Purple Poets' Poetry Game!
Poetry Happenings at the Poetry Tea-Tent
2 - 5 p.m.

5 p.m.   READING:
Three 'POET AT YOUR TABLE' poems
written at the Tea-Room

London Time Bank
Book Table and Information Table
with Karen Lyon and friends
in the Tea Room all afternoonm