West Euston Time Bank
WEST EUSTON TIME BANK
PURPLE POETS
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
Tel: 0207 383 4922
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk
Writer-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey


Arts Council

WEST EUSTON PURPLE POETS:

Babushka, Bithi Das, Carol Moon, Eileen Francis, Eppie Caredda, Ferdous Rahman, Islam Molla, Jean Watt, Kathy Randle, Nahar Islam, Norah Platt, Patsy Futatsugi, Shelagh Beale, Steve Maly.

UPCOMING READINGS:

  PAST READINGS, PROJECTS AND EVENTS  


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


Saturday afternoon, (noon onwards) June 26, 2010
2nd Annual 'Wellcome Collection'
Cumberland Market Community Picnic
Cumberland Market

PURPLE POETS'  LAUNCH OF THE POETRY TREE
12:30  Official Launch by the Mayor of Camden
Councillor Jonathan Simpson
followed by a Poetry Reading by the  WETB Purple Poets
RHYMES WITH PURPLE!
poems inspired by the Wellcome Trust Collection and Projects
12:30 Poetry Reading by bithi das, Islam Molla, Patsy Futatsugi, Shelagh Beale and Jean Watt
of the Purple Poets, followed by a  presentation of Wellcome artist Lucy May Schofield's cookbook
12:45 WETB Children's Group Street Dancers (taught by Mariam)
1:05 The TAP Fine Line Dancers (taught by Alicia Frost)
1:05 The TAP Country Dancers (taught by Mary Panton).
1:25 Snakes and Ladders project, with Wellcome artists Prick Your Finger)
1:30 The Mayor's Choice; music by Wellcome artist Lucy Cheung Radio PicNic
(with a special tattoo presented to the Mayor by Lady Lucy)
3:00 pm. finale dance by WETB Children's Group Street Dancers (taught by Mariam)
picnic hosted by The Wellcome Trust, Third Age Project,
and West Euston Time Bank
The Mayor of Camden, Councillor Simpson,  will also be co-hosting
our 2nd Annual National Poetry Day Celebrations at Camden Town Hall October 8th.
The 2010-2011 Mayor's chosen charity is The Roundhouse, and his chosen theme is Music.
(Click here for more details about our 2010 Mayor of Camden,
Councillor Jonathan Simpson)



Saturday afternoon, June 26, 2010
PURPLE POETS
4 p.m. reading
The Fayre on the Square

Brunswick Square

to celebrate the 150th anniversary of
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
A Community Family Fun Day to raise funds
for the UK's first Brain Tumour Unit
For further information,  please call 020 7829 8724.


Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Triton Square
Annual Summer Festival
hosted by Diorama
1:30 p.m.

PURPLE POETS: Introduction to Dance

with special guests,
The Third Age Project's
Fine Line Dancers
(choreography by Alicia)

poem written at the Festival
by Nahar, just for the Festival
(first draft read on July 1st, 2010


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Saturday afternoon, July 10, 2010
LOPSG Capital Age Summer Festival

The West Euston Time Bank:
PURPLE POETS: Introduction to Dance
a poem cycle, with special guests,
the Third Age Project's
Fine Line Dancers
Southbank, Coin Street Festival


Sunday afternoon, 6 June 2010
Camden Green Fair and Bikefest,
Regent's Park

13:30 hrs at the fashion tent stage
PURPLE POETS: Turning Green!
a poem cycle
(and come have a chat, all afternoon
at the West Euston Time Bank/Third Age Project stall)



APRIL 22, 2010 reading
Purple Poets
and Friends
and Peace
(a found poetry project)

-- a 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.



MARCH 18, 2010
How to Read a Painting

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 artist material by Heather Spears




Art for All project
artist: M.E.A. Rope
Haggerston Saints Stained Glass Windows
(on permanent display at The Crypt)
a series of photographs by Tatiana Schenk
first visit 05.05.2009
Saint Leonard



7.03.2009
International Womens' Day Dance

Dick Collins Hall
4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Bithi read 'My Motherland'
Islam read 'My Mother'
Eppie read 'Dear Mama'
Kim read from a selection of poems
by the 2009 Inter-Generational Poetry Project
Samuel Lithgow After-School Club
(at Netley School)

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch (WORLD BOOK DAY)
Samuel Lithgow Centre at Netley Primary School
After School Club
by invitation only
4:30 p.m.
Purple Poets:
Bithi Das and Islam Molla

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch (WORLD BOOK DAY)
BBC Light Entertainment Department
Henry Wood House
3:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch (WORLD BOOK DAY)
Pain Management Clinic
National Hospital for Neurology and Seurosurgery
Queen's Square
London
noon

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch (WORLD BOOK DAY)
Camden Town Hall
Councillors' Surgeries Waiting Area
10:45 a.m.
Purple Poet Bithi Das
read 'Rebirth'


Thursday, March 5, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch (WORLD BOOK DAY)
Births, Deaths, Marriages Registration Room
CamdenTown Hall
10:30 a.m.
Purple Poet Bithi Das
read 'Rebirth'
see Camden New Journal  12.03.2009, page 12,
"Thinking Inside the Box: Book Swap scheme 'a hit'
(article written by Simon Wroe)


Saturday, February 28, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch
Finsbury Arts Festival
Saint Luke's Centre
90 Central Street
London   EC1V 8AJ
0207 549 8196
http://www.stlukestimebank.org
time brokers:
Jonies Henry & John Garces
2:30 p.m.
(following John Hegley)
Purple Poets:
Bithi Das read 'Rebirth', Eppie Caredda read 'My Country',
Patsy Futatsugi read 'After the War' (the Chocolate Poem),
Kim Morrissey read 'Imagine Rose Dancing'


Thursday, February 19, 2009
International Language Day
The H-Pod, Cumberland Market
time bank | Third Age Project

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Purple Poet's Book Exchange Box
Launch
Camden Town Hall
Staff Cafeteria
by invitation only
1:30 p.m.
confirmed Purple Poets reading:
Bithi Das and Islam Molla.

Monday, January 19, 2009
Purple Poets' Book Exchange Box
Launch
Camden Town Hall
Members' Room
by invitation only
6:00 p.m.
confirmed purple poets reading:
Eppie Caredda, Bithi Das,
Patsy Futatsugi and Islam Molla.

Tuesday, December 16th 2008
West Euston Third Age Project
and West Euston Time Bank
Christmas Celebration
2 p.m.
The Crypt, Munster Square
West Euston

Friday, December 12th 2008
Christmas Pantomime and party
"Snow White, Snow White" | in other words
(following the TAD's
performance of their pantomime
SNOW WHITE at 2 p.m.)
Dick Collins Hall
West Euston

Thursday, December 4th 2008
Workshop and reading
with Fitzrovia Sheltered Housing
24 Carburton Street
Westminster
2 - 3:30 p.m.
Kim Morrissey with
Purple poets Bithi Das and Patsy Futatsugi
co-ordinator: Barb Jacobson
Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre
Tottenham Street
olderfitzroviaATyahoo.com

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Bithi Das read her poem
CHRISTMAS ORANGE
Barry Gardiner, Brent M.P.
at a specially invited Coffee Morning
Brent Town Hall, at noon
www.barrygardiner.com

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
DIWALI LIGHTS: A POEM PERFORMANCE
performed for Nural Islam
The Worshipful Mayor Of Camden,
West Euston Time Bank Eid and Diwali Celebration
at the H-Pod, Cumberland Market


Thursday, October 24th 2008
HOW TO READ A POEM
LAUNCH OF BOOK EXCHANGE

performed for Councillor Omar Faruque Ansari
Deputy Mayor Of Camden,
at the Hillwood Resource Centre (Age Concern)
30 Eversholt Road
Age Concern International Day Celebration
at 2:30 p.m. on 24.10.2008

Saturday, June 26 2008
Cumberland Market Summer Festival
H-POD reading at Cumberland Market tent 2 p.m.
Triton Square 3 p.m.


June 13th 2008
Dick Collins Hall
Tea Dance and Garden Party
Cumberland Market

Sunday, June 1st 2008
Camden Green Fair

Regent's Park

April 15th 2008
Thai New Year Celebrations
Third Age Project
The Crypt
Munster Square

March 27, 2008
Men's Health Day

March 15 2008
Cumberland Market Spring Festival
Cumberland Market
This reading of 'Dance' poems was performed
before and after the Country Dance Class Demonstration,
for the Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Dawn Sompter
March 1 2008

International Womens' Day Dance
Dick Collins Hall 2008

February 21, 2008
International Language Day
H-Pod Cumberland Market
Phone Jill at H-Pod: 020-7387 4401

February 15, 2008
St. Valentine's Day Tea Dance
Dick Collins Hall

February 14, 2008
Purple Poets' Purple Passion Workshop
How to write a Poem to your Love
and Make a Valentine's Day Card
workshop lead by Bithi Das
The Crypt, 2 - 4 p.m.

January 2008
The Year of the Rat
Chinese New Year Celebration
H-Pod (following the Tai Chi demonstration)

December 7, 2007
West Euston Time Bank Christmas Celebration.
Dick Collins Hall

November 9th 2007 is Diwali.
09.11.2007
The Purple Poets Eppie Caredda, Shelagh Beale,
Nahar Islam and Islam Molla, with Kim Morrissey
opened The West EustonThird Age Project's
10th Anniversary Tea-Dance at Dick Collins Hall
at 2 p.m. with a poem performance reading
celebrating the Festival of Light

October 25, 2007
West Euston Third Age Project Eid Celebration.
Thursday afternoon at the Crypt, Munster Square

October 23 2007
Conference on Climate Change
New Economics Foundation
Purple Poets Beverley Clarke, Carol Moon, Ferdous Rahman,
Islam Molla and Patsy Futatsugi performed in a
joint reading with other London Time Bank Poets and their
Poetry Tutors Kim Morrissey, Cyther, and Tessa Dummett
Poetry Café 22 Betterton Street, London
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
www.climatespace.org

October 22, 2007
 Hill-Wood International Day
Hill-Wood Resources Centre Age Concern  
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Islam Molla reads to The Mayor of Camden at noon)
1 Polygon Road, London NW1 1QH
http: //www.ageconcerncamden.org.uk/

October 18, 2007
 LONDON TIME BANK POETRY EVENT
Lennox Raphael
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at The Crypt,
Munster Square, London NW1 3PL
 How to Read a Poem
Reading and Workshop with acclaimed
poet, playwright, musician Lennox Raphael
hosted by the West Euston Time Bank
purple poets to celebrate Black History Month
This event has been generously co-sponsored  by
the Third Age Project, West Euston Time Bank and Time Banks UK

October 9th WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE EMU PALLADIUM
The Intimate Theatre
521 Green Lanes, Palmer's Green  N13 4DH
7:30 p.m. Kim Morrissey read
with Purple Poets Islam Molla and Nahar Islam
to celebrate World Mental Health Day
with the Enfield Mental Health Users (EMU)
October 4, 2007
National Poetry Day
London Time Bank
Writers' Reading Party
special guest Henry Woolf

OCTOBER 1st 2007
Tea and Poetry with Edgar Cahn
Creator of timebanking and the co-production imperative)
Reading with other time bank poets, were Purple Poets
Eppie Caredda, Patsy Futatsugi, Carol Moon, Islam Molla, Ferdous Rahman
Monday 1st October at 6 - 7.30pm
The Harrison Arms, Harrison Street,  London WC1H 8JF

Monday August 20, 2007 at 2 p.m.
Poetry tutor Kim Morrissey
held a Poetry workshop with the
Enfield Mental Health Users
Poetry Group
(The EMU Fledglings)
place: United Reformed Church, Lancaster Road EN2 0DN
(across from the Co-op Grocery Shop)
contact EMU Director: Dr. Kate Holmes
Lancaster Centre
53 Lancaster Road
Enfield Town EN2
tel: 0208-366-6560
e-mail: emugroup@tiscali.co.uk

CAPITAL AGE SUMMER FESTIVAL
(Sunday August 19th 2007) Southbank 2-6 p.m.
LOPSG's Fifth Annual Capital Age Summer Festival
Opening Poem for the Festival written by Jean Watt
Reading by the purple poets and at the Tea Tent 2 - 4 p.m.
A POET AT YOUR TABLE
(the Purple Poets' Poetry Game)


Camden Green Fair -- (Sunday, June 3, 2007)
Regent's Park, London
Poems from the 2006 Reading

Monday 2-4 p.m. June 25 2007
Kim Morrissey led a Poetry Workshop
with EMU's Poetry Fledglings
Enfield Mental Health Users
Lancaster Centre, Enfield

Session ONE
step one- getting started Collective Poems
step two - be your own Poetry Collective
step three- finding the form: breaking your poem into stanzas

Friday 2-3 p.m. June 15, 2007
The Purple Poets Bithi Das, Carol Moon and Patsy Futatsugi,
led by Kim Morrissey held a Reading and Poetry workshop
hosted by the Mayville Comminity Centre
Woodville Road (off Mildmay)
London N16 8NA
0207 249 8286
Session ONE
step one- getting started Collective Poems
step two - be your own Poetry Collective

Thursday, April 26,  2007
CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF ST. LUKE'S TIME BANK
Purple Poets Kathy Randle and Carol Moon gave a Poetry Reading
and took part in a Time Bank Panel Discussion chaired by Karen Lyon.
St. Luke's Centre
90 Central Street
LONDON, EC1V 8AQ
2 - 4 p.m.
Time Bank Broker: Fatima Abdulahi
telephone: 0207 549 8196
fax: 0207 549 8181
e-mail Timebank@slpt.org.uk

Monday April 23, 2007
Kim Morrissey was invited to take part in a poetry workshop
with the Enfield Mental Health Users Group
to celebrate St. George's Day
(adopted icon of Mental Health Users).
EMU Director: Dr. Kate Holmes
53 Lancaster Road
Lancaster Centre
Enfield Town EN2
tel: 0208-366-6560

Monday April 23, 2007
Third Age Project's St. George's Day Celebrations
Purple Poets Kathy Randle and Carol Moon
gave a reading to celebrate St. Geroge's Day
Third Age Project
The Crypt
Munster Square
afternooon

MARCH 11, 2007
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY DANCE
time bank | Third Age Project
Dick Collins Hall
1 - 5 p.m.

CAPITAL AGE WINTER FESTIVAL
(Thursday February 8th 2007) London City Hall
LOPSG's First Annual Capital Age Winter Festival
The Chamber, City Hall, Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
1 - 5 p.m.
SOLD OUT!

2006
International Womens' Day Dance
time bank | Third Age Project
March 2006
Dick Collins Hall
1 - 5 p.m.

National Poetry Day 2006
THEME: IDENTITY

2005
National Poetry Day 2005
06.10.2005
Poetry Cafe
reading with Andrew Motion
and London-wide Time Bank Poetry Groups
THEME: THE FUTURE

2004
National Poetry Day 2004
THEME: FOOD

dates for your diary
UPCOMING READINGS:


Saturday afternoon, (noon onwards) June 26, 2010
2nd Annual 'Wellcome Collection'
Cumberland Market Community Picnic
Cumberland Market

PURPLE POETS'  LAUNCH OF THE POETRY TREE
12:30  Official Launch by the Mayor of Camden
Councillor Jonathan Simpson
followed by a Poetry Reading by the  WETB Purple Poets
RHYMES WITH PURPLE!
poems inspired by the Wellcome Trust Collection and Projects
12:45 WETB Children's Group Street Dancers (taught by Mariam)
1:05 The TAP Fine Line Dancers (taught by Alicia)
1:05 The TAP Country Dancers (taught by Mary).
picnic hosted by The Wellcome Trust, Third Age Project,
and West Euston Time Bank


Saturday afternoon, June 26, 2010
PURPLE POETS
4 p.m. reading
The Fayre on the Square
Brunswick Square

to celebrate the 150th anniversary of
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
A Community Family Fun Day to raise funds
for the UK's first Brain Tumour Unit
For further information,  please call 020 7829 8724.


Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Triton Square
Annual Summer Festival
hosted by Diorama
1:30 p.m.
PURPLE POETS: Introduction to Dance
with special guests,
The Third Age Project's
Fine Line Dancers
(choreography by Alicia)




[ C A N C E L L E D]
Saturday afternoon, July 10, 2010
LOPSG Capital Age Summer Festival

The West Euston Time Bank:
PURPLE POETS: Introduction to Dance
a poem cycle, with special guests,
the Third Age Project's
Fine Line Dancers
Southbank, Coin Street Festival




Friday, August 6, 2010  noon to one.
Hiroshima Day Peace Ceremony
Tavistock Square, Camden
(guests include the Mayor of Camden)

a short reading from the
Purple Poets and Peace
TO ALL WOMEN! (1917)
(found poems from Quaker Peace testimonies)

The Camden part of this World-wide Peace Event
is organised annually by the CND
(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
every August 6th in The Tavistock Square Peace Gardens
to remember the first bombing of Hiroshima (August 6th, 1945)
and to renew Pledges For Peace.
CND  http://www.cnduk.org
Friends of Tavistock Square
Quaker Peace Events
Network for Peace (Calendar)


September 4th, 2010
Marchmont Street Festival, Bloomsbury
(meet at Cybergate, Leigh Street, time TBA)
Purple Poets' Walk and Workshop
(Workshop at Cybergate Internet Cafe, Leigh Street)

Rhyme like Shelley
Joke like Kenneth Williams
Laugh like the Dickens (Charles)

walk leaders: Kim Morrissey, Gemma Jordan.
workshop leaders: Kim Morrissey, Ali Zayed (Cybergate).
Come for a short walk with the Purple Poets
around our Bloomsbury neighbourhood
and help share some history, anecdotes, jokes and
Camden Hero poems celebrating our
local Heroes of Marchmont Street and the Neighbourhood.
 (New poems welcome!)
Wheelchair accessible. Free. Everyone welcome.
The Purple Poets will be holding a poetry workshop
after the walk, at poet Ali Sayed's Cybergate Café Leigh Street.
A History of Marchmont Street
(and recommended history books of the area) can be found at:
THE MARCHMONT ASSOCIATION
History and conservation page


Friday October 8th
Camden's National Poetry Week Celebrations
hosted by the Purple Poets
Camden Town Halll
Judd Street
2-4 p.m.
Tea hosted by the Mayor .
This year's theme is 'HOME'
Send us your Poem on a Postcard
and join us, reading to the Mayor


PURPLE POETS
Time Banks and Time Banking
The Four Core Values

co-production
(Edgar Kahn, founder of Time Bank)


1. We treat people as assets –

We support the positive actions people can
and want to do for their community.

2. We are re-defining work –
regardless of the task, everyone’s time is valued equally
we value whatever it takes to make neighbourhoods safe and vibrant.

3.We reciprocate –
we require that everyone gives something back
ensuring all in our society have the opportunity
to be involved in their community.

4. We support the development of social networks –
these require ongoing investments of social capital
generated by trust, reciprocity and civic engagement.




BOOK EXCHANGE WORDING
Please click to go to a printable poster
to copy to set up your own book exchange



The 2007 London Time Bank National Poetry Day
Writers' Reading Party was funded by
West Euston Time Bank and Kim Morrissey

The 2007 Black History Month Celebration
was funded by West Euston Time Bank,
Third Age Project, and Time Bank UK


The 2006 London Time Bank National Poetry Day

Writers' Reading Party was funded by
Time Banks UK, NEF, Lewisham Council, Diorama Gallery,
Rushey Green Time Bank, West Euston Third Age Project,
other local sponsors and the West Euston Time Bank. 

The 2005 London Time Bank National Poetry Day
Reading (06.10.2005) was funded by new econcomics foundation,
and the Arts Council England.

The 2004 West Euston Time Bank National Poetry Day
Celebration (with a reading by Norah Platt)
was funded by the West Euston Time Bank
and the West Euston Third Age Project.

Arts Council

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MORE WORK BY THE PURPLE POETS


CONTACT DETAILS
West Euston Time Bank
London, England
West Euston Time Bank Poetry For All

0207 287 4922

The Purple Poets meet
almost every Thursday at the Crypt
between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
(phone to confirm there is a session)

West Euston Time Bank
www.westeustontimebank.org.uk
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk

West Euston Third Age Project
www.thirdageproject.org.uk/
info@thirdageproject.org.uk

Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
0207 383 4922

H-Pod classes
Cumberland Market
0207 387 4922

Workshop Facilitators:
Tony Bloor, Nurjahan Urmi, Josie Nakos

Time Bank Broker:
Shahanara Begum
Poet-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey


Arts Council

The West Euston Time Bank Poetry Workshop
was funded in 2004 - 2006 by the Arts Council, the Carnegie Trust,
Time Banks UK and The New Economics Foundation

http://www.timebanking.org/
TBUK
Time Banking UK,
The Exchange,
Brick Row,
Stroud GL5 1DF
Tel: 01453 750952
info@timebanks.co.uk

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West Euston Time Bank
WEST EUSTON TIME BANK
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
Tel: 0207 383 4922
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk

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Third Age Project
THIRD AGE PROJECT
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
Tel: 0207 383 4922
info@thirdageproject.org.uk

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