Purple Poets
writer-in-residence
Kim Morrissey
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poetry reading
2 p.m. at
Lord John Russell
91 Marchmont Street |
Purple
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Marchmont
Street Festival
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THE MARCHMONT
ASSOCIATION
The Marchmont Association
Neighbourhood Projects
Local History and Historical Projects
If you have ideas for improving the area please let us know.
http://www.marchmontassociation.org.uk
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MARCHMONT STREET FESTIVAL
September 4th 2010
| The Marchmont Street Festival
is a Party that takes place every year, roughly around the first week of
September, celebrating the people, homes, history, and businesses of Marchmont
Street, Bloomsbury in the borough of Camden (look closely! the boundary
markers for Saint Pancras and Saint George Bloomsbury can still be seen).
This year, come help the Purple
Poets celebrate our local heroes -- Kenneth Williams, William Radice, Patsy's
Mother and others! |
2010 programme
A VIRTUAL WALK AROUND OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD!
Rhyme like
Shelley
Carry On like Kenneth Williams
Laugh like the Dickens (Charles)
Hold the Fort (Charles)
Pout like a Prout
Hunt birds nests with Hunt!
Come Join the Purple Poets and Friends
for a free Virtual Historical Walk around our neighbourhood
at Cybergate Internet Cafe, followed by a poetry workshop
and join us for a free poetry reading at the Lord John Russell Pub at 2
Camden Heroes: Poems-in-progress
Suggested Books and
Resources
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Advisors for the Historical Virtual
Tour were poet and playwright Kim Morrissey (writer-in-residence for
the Purple Poets) and local history buff Gemma Jordan, of the Marchmont
Association.
The Virtual Tour includes historical highlights as well as a discussion of
our neighbourhood's buildings. People are invited to bring their own snippets
of history, anecdotes, and poems to share with the other workshop
participants.
As well as the Virtual Tour, there will be a Writing Workshop led by
Kim Morrissey and poet Ali Zayed, of Cybergate Internet Cafe to teach you
how to turn your own memories or Heroes into Postcard Heroes - and you can
contribute your poems for an instant anthology.
Historical Virtual Tour (11 a.m.)
Cybergate Internet Cafe
(Laptop Repair 4 U)
http://www.laptoprepair4u.co.uk
3 Leigh Street
WC1H 9EW
www.cybergateuk.com
Time: 11 a.m.
Date: September 4th 2010
Purple Poets
Poetry Reading 2 p.m.
Lord
John Russell pub
91 Marchmont Street
Bloomsbury, WC1N 1AL
Telephone: 020 7388 0500
Time:
2 p.m.
Date: September 4th 2010
there is a review of the pub and its history
(and a very nice picture!)
at
fancyapint.com
Free. Wheel-chair accessible.
Everyone welcome.
The Virtual Tour and Workshop is co-produced by The Purple Poets, The Marchmont
Association, and Cybergate.
Come hear ThePurple
Poets read their Postcard Poems about Camden Heroes (and Villains) at
the Marchmont Street Festival on September 4th, 2010.
The reading will take place at the Lord John Russell pub on Marchmont
Street at 2 p.m. and the reading will include Michael Kielty's poem
celebrating Kenneth Williams, Islam Molla's poem to William Radice, and Patsy's
poem celebrating her mother -- and chocolate!.
Related events of Interest:
David Benson will be hosting a walk
celebrating Kenneth Williams on September 5th at 11 a.m. As part of the Camden
Fringe, his award-winning show, Think No Evil of Us will be
performed at the New Diorama Theatre, Triton Square (a five minute walk from
the West Euston Time Bank and Third Age Project Crypt Centre in Munster Square)
on September 4th at 8 p.m. with afternoon shows on September 5th and
19th at 3:30 p.m.
Pick of the Month for the Purple Poets, September
2010 |
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other ANNUAL
up-coming festivals
we enjoyed:
June 26th, 2010
Cumberland Market Picnic
archives: Purple Poet
Patsy Futatsugi
reading her wonderful poem
about Chocolate
to the Mayor of Camden,
Councillor Omar Faruque Ansari,
2009 Cumberland Market Picnic
co hosted by the Wellcome Trust
The Third Age Project and the West Euston Time
Bank
photograph courtesy
Wellcome
Trust.
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MARCHMONT STREET PARTY
Saturday 4th September 2010
12 - 5 pm
PROGRAMME
Live on Stage:
12.00 - Lambeth Wind Orchestra
1.15 - KCB Youth rappers &
Martial Arts demo
1.30 - Jyoshna la Trobe & Kavita
2.00 - "Cut-a-Shine" Hoedown Band
3.00 - "Tropical Heatwave"
4.15 - Luis Lema & his Salsa Band
Other attractions:
11 a.m. Purple Poets
Virtual Historical Tour of our neighbourhood
Cybergate Cafe
3 Leigh Street
1.00 - Mayor of Camden
1.00 - 4.00 - "Juggling John"
Circus skills shows and workshops
2:00 Purple Poets
reading at the Lord John Russell pub
Marchmont Street
2.00, 3.00 & 4.00 - "Punch & Judy"
3 shows performed by
Professor Gary Wilson
Plus:
" Fun Fair rides & sideshows
" M.A.'s big prize Tombola/Raffle
" Face painting + Henna 'tattoos'
" Home-made cakes, international food, books, crafts and other 'delights'
provided by local traders, community groups and partner organisations
2010 Marchmont Street Festival. Organised by the Marchmont Association (MA)
with the generous support of our sponsors: Bloomsbury Holiday Inn hotel,
The Generator hostel, Waitrose, Marquis Cornwallis, Gino's, Judd Books, NBS,
Fyfe McDade, Balfour & Camden Council - Camden Council values and celebrates
the diversity of its community. We are also grateful for the valuable support
of: Camden Street Environment & Highways Management, the Bloomsbury Safer
Neighbourhood Team (Police), KCBNA Youth Team, Camden Community Street Wardens
and to the Brunswick, for the use of their land . |
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SUGGESTED BOUNDARIES FOR
THE MARCHMONT FESTIVAL WALK
graphic courtesy Marchmont Association
website
SUGGESTED READING AND RESOURCES:
Some wonderful archival photographs
can be found on the
Marchmont
Association website.
Start with the conservation webpage, and carry on clicking!
http://www.marchmontassociation.org.uk/conservation.htm
If you are interested in Marchmont Street,
the definitive book is
The Story of Marchmont Street
by local historian
Ricci De Freitas (and friends)
available at various local bookshops
and newsagents on Marchmont Street
third Edition, September 2010
The book is always available from SKOOB Books,
Judd Books and Shoppers' News on Marchmont Street
If you'd like to know more about The Brunswick Centre
(which faces Marchmont Street)
Clare Melhuish’s
The Life and Times
of the Brunswick, Bloomsbury
is very useful
Mike Pentelow's book
Characters of Fitzrovia
is a classic. His latest book,
A Pub Crawl Through History:
The Ultimate Boozer's Who's Who
(written by Mike Pentelow,
photographs by Peter Arkell, Janus Press 2010)
reviewed in The Camden New Journal by Fiona
Green
Camden New Journal Books:Review 15.04.2010
looks delicious!
Gillian Tindall
discusses the lost streams
and covered-over courses of the Fleet River
from Hampstead, through Bloomsbury
to the Thames in her classic 1977 book
The Fields Beneath
(Publisher: Paladin) (2nd edition, 1 Jan 1980)
Paperback: 225 pages
ISBN-10: 0586083200
ISBN-13: 978-0586083208
Streets East of Bloomsbury
Camden Historical Society
discusses more of the area
if you want to explore the east side
of Bloomsbury.
The Chenies Street Chambers
Historical website
discusses Marchmont street
in their 'Related Walks'
This website also includes very useful historical maps,
archival photgraphs of the bombing
of Chenies Street Chambers
during the second world war,
and discusses art in the building
by the scuptor Ellen Rope.
archival art and photographs
in the neighbourhood
A rare archival photograph
of its original building
(previously believed to be lost)
can be seen at Cybergate
(Laptop Repair 4 You)
http://www.laptoprepair4u.co.uk
3 Leigh Street
A joyous street scene painting
of the Lord John Russell pub
is hanging on the ground floor of the pub
(Marchmont Street).
Descriptions of Marchmont Street shops
can be found at
LondonTown.com
(including the Lord John Russell, Judd Books, Alara,
CV Hairdressing, SKOO Books, Gay's the Word)
http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/marchmont_street_b2b.html
ONE OF THE POEMS BY THE PURPLE POETS
TO BE READ OUT ON THE WALK:
POEM FOR
KENNETH WILLIAMS:
Blue Plaque:
57 Marchmont Street
(unveiled October 11th 2009)
(by Michael Kielty)
An icon famed for his many expressions
His Blue Plaque is one of our prize possessions.
His name, his name, I hear you request
He needs no Introduction, he was the Best!
A local lad and confirmed bachelor, born and bred
Still famous, still remembered, though 21 years dead.
His name, his name, don't try to spin it
I'll tell you his name in Just a Minute!
For 62 years he brought mirth and fun
A gift from God, a chosen one.
Don't Carry On, I hear you shout
His name! His Name! Stop messing about!
No infamy for this Star of Radio, TV, Stage, and Films
Yes, you've guessed it! It's the late great Kenneth Williams.
this is an on-going project.
MORE POEMS TO FOLLOW
PURPLE POETS CAMDEN HEROES ARCHIVE
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list of local heroes (on-going)
click here for our 2009
National Poetry Day programme
click here to read more of the poems
OTHER PURPLE POET PROJECTS:
PROJECT:
ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and
museums
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)
FIFTH FIELD TRIP (18.03.2010)
National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martins Lane
(The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, invited viewing and NPG workshop)
How to Read a Painting
workshop leaders Fran Wilde and Kim Morrissey
special guest artist and resource person Jo
WOnder
additional artist material by Heather
Spears
FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
Quakers Centre Library
Euston Road
(Testimonies of Peace research for April 22nd, 2010 reading)
THIRD FIELD TRIP (24.05.2009)
British Museum, Great Russell Street
(Indian Summer, Garden and Cosmos, invited viewing)
SECOND FIELD TRIP (02.04.2009)
Wellcome Trust Library, Euston Road (Acts of Mercy paintings)
FIRST FIELD TRIP AND ON-GOING
PROJECT (05.10.2006)
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 and footnotes: Art in the Crypt
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE
more
work and projects by THE PURPLE POETS:
Babushka, Bithi Das, Carol Moon,
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