Purple Poets
Art for All | Access for All
projects
Poetry-In-Progress
- inspired by The Crypt, Munster Square
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE
Accessibility to the Crypt: reasonable. Steep stairs down to The Crypt,
but lift access at Church level (by the left side of the main Church doors)
Very helpful staff - thanks, Tony - and, of course, our beloved Urmi lnows
everything!
Free. (open free to the public, during the Third Age Project and West
Euston Time Bank hours).
Travel. Closest tube station: Great Portland Street; closest bus stops:
Albany Street,or Hampstead Road/Euston Road stop.
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Purple Poets
a second draft
SAINT LEONARD, AND CRICKET, FOREVER
The Crypt of Saint Mary Magdalene, Munster Square
M.E.A. Rope 'Saint Leonard' stained glass panel
04.03.2010
second draft
second draft
A very Shoreditch Saint Leonard
still glows bright in our Crypt
the cross red as the double-decker
passing by
the passenger nuns
on the top deck
still looking out past the church
below, in Hackney
The Boston Street boy
with falling down socks
sturdy legs wide
plays cricket by the pub
everyone knows the name
of everyone in the street
including the little dog
transformed by light
into everyday miracles
Art and the Crypt: The Saints
The Stained Glass Panels of M.E.A. Rope
The Crypt, National Poetry Day 2006
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Purple Poets
a first draft
STAINED GLASS, WOMAN ARTIST: THE CRYPT
FIRST DRAFT
The Crypt of Saint Mary Magdalene, Munster Square
M.E.A. Rope 'Saint Leonard' stained glass panel
04.10.2006
the leaded Saint Leonard
once meant for Shoreditch
still glows bright as the
double-decker bus and the pub
and below,
the small boy still stands
falling down socks but
sturdy legs wide bat high
still waits for the ball
playing cricket
transformed by light
everyday miracles
his friend behind and his dog
and the little girl with the baby
looking on still belong to his world
the pub the cobbled road
the lamp and the street
even the church
are gone now
Boston Street is a park
but in the window,
the little boys play on
as below,
everyday joy fills The Crypt
Art light laughter
still ritual
still magic
Art and the Crypt: The Saints
The Stained Glass Panels of M.E.A. Rope
The Crypt, National Poetry Day 2006
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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)
How to Read a Painting
workshop leaders Fran Wilde (NPG) and Kim Morrissey (WETB)
special guest artist and resource person Jo
WOnder
additional artist material by Heather
Spears
FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
Quaker Centre Library
173 Euston Road, London
(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)
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
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 West Euston 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.)
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