UPCOMING
READINGS by the Purple Poets
PICK OF THE MONTH:
 _
JUNE 2008
(up a flight of stairs, so not wheelchair accessible)
RECOMMENDED
BY WEST EUSTON PURPLE POET
Patsy Futatsugi
LONDON: Book Launch of
DIVERS
| 29-June-2008
7.00- 9.30pm. A rare chance to see members
of the Poetry Workshop celebrate their 25th Anniversary with the launch of
their first anthology, DIVERS (published by Aark Arts Books). Poets
reading include: C. L. Dallat, Jane Draycott, Hugh Epstein, Chris Hedley-Dent,
Elizabeth James, Duncan McGibbon, Leona Medlin, Kim Morrissey, Lesley Saunders,
Sudeep Sen, and Richard Wright, with readings from the anthology of the poems
of Richard Price and David Winzar. Sunday , 29th June 2008. Pentameters Theatre,
28 Heath Street Hampstead. Telephone 020 7435 3648. Tickets
£8/£5.
PICK OF THE MONTH:
NOVEMBER 2007
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Louise
Bourgeouis Exhibition, Tate Modern
PICK OF THE MONTH:
OCTOBER 2007
RECOMMENDED
BY WEST EUSTON PURPLE POET
Kim Morrissey
Playwright LENNOX RAPHAEL: panel discussion
"The State of Black Theatre"
2 p.m. 13.10.2007; Arsenal Emirates Stadium
The Word Power Literature Festival and Book Fair
has a variety of literary events celebrating 200 years of achievements
of writers of African descent and to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition
of the slave trade act of 1807. Taking place throughout October 2007, writers
and publishers will be participating from Africa, the Caribbean, America,
Europe and of course, our own home grown British writers. They will be apart
of a long list of exciting events to expand your mind, including workshops,
lectures, discussions and debates on subjects like religion, spirituality,
history, creating wealth, young people and writing for the BBC.
BOOK FAIR: 13-14 OCTOBER 2007
@ The Emirates, Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London. N7
Saturday 13 October
2.00pm - 3.00pm
The State of Black Theatre – an
international discussion. Leading Black-British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah
joins Barbados-based, Montserratian Yvonne Weekes, Denmark-based Trinidadian
Raphael Lennox and Patricia Cumper (Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre)
to discuss the state of Black theatre internationally.
Kwame Kwei-Armah (Fix Up/Elmina’s Kitchen) is a Black British
playwright who has written two critically acclaimed plays. Trinidadian playwright
Lennox Raphael’s first ground-breaking play, Che! ran in Manhattan
for over a year. Yvonne Weekes is the Theatre Arts Cordinator in the Performing
Arts Department at the Barbados Community College. She directed and produced
plays which traveled to a number of the Caribbean islands. Patricia Cumper
has been writing for the theatre in the Caribbean and the UK for nearly 30
years. Steven Luckie is a theatre director and former producer of Eclipse
Theatre.
full programme: www.centerpriseliterature.com
Disability Warning: The Arsenal tube stationhas a very long corridor which
is sometimes a wind tunnel and the Stadium is a long way from the tube station.
Also the corridors for the panel discussion were cramped and crowded and
the several workshops being held at the same time meant it was difficult
to hear the panel participants.
PICK OF THE MONTH:
JUNE 2007
RECOMMENDED
BY WEST EUSTON PURPLE POET
Patsy Futatsugi
DRAMA:
TWO MEN TALKING
written and performed by Paul Browde and Murray Nossel
directed by Dan Milne, stage managing and lighting by Bernd Fauler
produced by Scamp Theatre www.scamptheatre.com
UK TOUR blog at www.twomentalking.com
Trafalgar Studios
14 Whitehall Street
London SW1A 2DY
June 5 - 23 2007
telephone 0870 060 6632
TWO MEN TALKING TO US
Review by Verden Redder
What’s the point of listening to other people’s stories
or sharing yours?
Two Men Talking, a two-hander from psychiatrist Paul Browde
and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Murray Nossel will tell you.
Weaving deftly between their shared South African childhoods and schooldays,
they intertwine widely differing experiences and separated development across
several countries. In 1974 they were challenged by their teacher to tell
each other a story. Following a chance meeting in New York 25 years later,
they pick up and draw together the multicoloured threads to produce a
polydimensional tapestry of today.
As their divergent storylines blend, the point emerges, a powerful justification,
creating shared and sharing experiences. Storytelling can help heal, may
make even painful experiences bearable and might aid other people facing
their own problems and demons. Their engaging, unscripted, constantly evolving
performances combine vibrant acting, melodious singing, humour and drama
to confront head-on such issues as apartheid, homosexuality, racism, HIV/AIDS,
personal and family challenges. The product, I felt, was a surprisingly
satisfying outcome.
Initially I felt uncomfortably like an intruder into their personal lives
and experiences, entertaining though some might be and of universal concern
as many undoubtedly are. However, at the point where they explained and
proclaimed the need for storytelling I understood the universality and
effectiveness of its appeal.
Think you have a story to tell? This may convince you. Think you don’t?
It may persuade you, you do.
As Archbishop Tutu said of them, “Storytelling can become a journey
to the truth. I commend their commitment and courage.”
-Verden Redder
June 5th
2007
PICK OF THE MONTH:
MAY
2007 (on-going)
RECOMMENDED BY WEST EUSTON
PURPLE POETS
Carol Moon
POETRY:
Troubadour Poetry Readings
(alternate Mondays at 8 p.m)
(closed during summer months)
TheTroubadour
265 Old Brompton Road SW5
LONDON
'London's best kept poetry secret - until
now!' ---
Kim
Morrissey
CAROL'S DISABLED ALERT: it is down a steep flight
of stairs; you can hear the loos flush while people read and they won't
let you take food down to the Coffeehouse, so go early (or stay late) if
you want to eat upstairs.
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