WestEustonPurplePoets
West Euston Time Bank, London
Writer-in-Residence
Kim
Morrissey
A CALENDAR OF POEMS FOR USE
AT TIME BANK CELEBRATIONS
THROUGH THE YEAR
Bithi Das:
"I don't have any one
But I have everyone
with my Time Bank and Third Age Project.
Thank you. Many people like me
who never knew how to write poetry,
now have the inspiration to write."
why our poets are purple
UP-COMING
EVENTS
The Purple Poets will be reading:
Triton Square Festival
West Euston
July 26th 2008
3 p.m.
(stage by the Diorama Gallery)
Cumberland Summer Festival
Cumberland Market
dates to be announced!
Brighton Pier
September 25th 2008
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PREVIOUS READINGS AND EVENTS
most recent readings:
Cumberland Market Spring Festival
International Womens' Day Dance
International Language Day |
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WestEustonPurplePoets
A CALENDAR OF POEMS
FOR TIME BANK CELEBRATIONS
CAPITAL
AGE WINTER FESTIVAL
(Thursday February 8th 2007) London City Hall
LOPSG's's FirstAnnual Capital Age Winter Festival
The Chamber, City Hall, Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
1 - 5 p.m. SOLD OUT!
February
14th --- Valentine's Day
February
22 -- International Language Day
March
1st --- St. David's Day (Patron Saint of Wales)
March
8th --- International Women's Day
March
17th --- St. Patrick's Day (Patron Saint of Ireland)
March 25th 2007 --- Bi-centennial Anniversary of the Abolition
Slavery
A Purple Poets Artists Against Racism Virtual Event
March
-- Mothering Sunday
Spring
Holidays: A Play-in-Five-Days
Aesop's Fable: The Wind and the Sun
fourth draft 03.08.2006
Summer Holidays: A Play-in-Five-Days
Little Red Riding Hood
first draft 15.08.2008
April
23 --- St. George's Day (Patron Saint of England)
May 1st -- May Day
Camden
Green Fair -- (Sunday, June 3, 2007)
Regent's Park, London
Poems from the 2006 Reading
June 9th 2007 West Euston Third Age Project's
Tenth Anniversary
The Crypt, Munster Square
The Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Camden
opened the Celebration 2:50 p.m.
Purple Poets read at 4:55 p.m.
Special Guests invited by the Purple Poets: Rose Hacker and Jill
Fraser
Summer
Solstice June 21st
Cumberland
Market Festival
(July 29, 2006)
Cumberland Market,
Camden, London
The First Thursday in October is National Poetry Day.
Autumn celebrations - Ramadan, Eid and Diwali
OCTOBER - BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL
October 9th WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
2007 Kim Morrissey, Islam Molla and Nahar Islam read
at the Enfield Mental Health Users (EMU) Celebration
7:30 The Intimate Theatre, 521 Green Lanes,
Palmer's Green, London N13 4DH
AUTUMN DIWALI CELEBRATIONS
just
for fun:
Berkeley's Tree House Virtual Poetry Café
ARCHIVES
2006 NATIONAL POETRY DAY
THE PURPLE POETS HOSTED THE
LONDON TIME BANK POETS
READING WITH GUEST POET
RICHARD
PRICE
and Special Workshop Guest
Gareth
Edwards
"BBC Video Shorts"
05.10.
2006 NPD
Diorama 4 Art Gallery
3-7 Euston Centre
Regents Place, London
NW1 3JG
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October
-- Black History Month
November 1st St. Andrew's Day (Patron Saint of Scotland)
Remembrance Day
DECEMBER
25th --
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
POEMS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS:
Poems for Friday the Thirteenth
Poems
for the Garden
Poems
of Holidays and Travel
Poems
for Birthdays
Poems
of Friendship
Poems
of Sympathy and Consolation
Poems
about Time Banks and the Third Age Project
just
for fun:
Berkeley's Tree House Virtual Poetry Café
collective
poems
found poetry
creating
a speaker for your poem
translating
poetry
rewriting
a poem
writing
poetic drama for
children
Spring
Holidays: A Play-in-Five-Days
Aesop's Fable: The Wind and the Sun
fourth draft 03.08.2006
Summer Holidays: A Play-in-Five-Days
Little Red Riding Hood
first draft 15.08.2008
"THE
STREAM"
Our Time Bank Project flows
Washing away the old obstacles
Sadness, prejudice, poverty, despair
Like a stream we flow together
Gathering our friends as we go
Mary Nora Kathy and
Flo
Streams flowing into streams
Like our lives have flown
Into deeper waters, refreshing, warm
Collecting friends and sharing thoughts
Laughing, loving, being happy
Remembering joy
We are the guardians
We are the sentries
We are the protectors
We are the stream.
West Euston Time Bank Poets
Collective Poem
performed on National Poetry Day
at the Poetry Café
London, England
6th October 2005 |
WEST EUSTON PURPLE POETS:
Babushka
Bithi Das
Carol Moon
Eileen
Frances
Eppie Caredda
Ferdous
Rahman
Jean
Watt
Kathy
Randle
Nahar
Islam
Serajul
Islam Molla
Norah
Platt
Patsy
Futatsugi
Guest Poets:
Heeron
Begh
(National Poetry Day, October 2005)
Wendy
French
(guest: National Poetry Day, October 2006)
Judge: 2007 Norah Platt Poetry Prize
Rose Hacker
(Norah Platt Prize Presenter, October 2006)
(guest: 10th Anniversary T.A.P. June 2007)
Kim
Morrissey
(National Poetry Day, October 2006, 2007)
Judge: First Annual Norah Platt Poetry Prize 2006
Judge (with Wendy French): 2007 Norah Platt Poetry Prize
Andrew
Motion
(National Poetry Day, October 2005)
David
Neita
(Black History Month, October, 2005)
(National Poetry Day, October 2006)
Brenda
Niskala
(Camden Green Fair June 2006)
Richard
Price
(National Poetry Day, October 2006)
Lennox Raphael
(Black History Month Celebration October 2007)
Sudeep
Sen
(National Poetry Day Virtual Guest, 2006)
Henry Woolf
(National Poetry Day Guest 2007)
Resource Person and Funding Co-Ordinator 2004-2006:
Karen
Lyon (new economics foundation)
Inspiration: why the purple poets are
purple:
"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter."
(from Warning by Jenny Joseph)
History
of the Poetry-in-Progress Project
the purple poets |
LINKS:
Purple
Poets Cook! Recipes from the West Euston Time
Bank Café
West Euston Purple Poets (up-coming
events)
Norah
Platt Poetry Prize (rules, deadlines, prize
money)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: LONDON ARTS EVENTS
 DIVERS
book Launch, Pentameters Theatre, June 29th 2008
Louise Bourgeouis
Exhibition, Tate Modern, October 2007 - Jan. 2008
Playwright LENNOX
RAPHAEL "The State of Black Theatre"
(panel discussion at 2 p.m. 13.10.2007) WORD POWER FESTIVAL
TWO MEN TALKING
June 5 - 23 2007
coffee-house
poetry at the Troubadour (alternate Mondays, on-going)
How to Plan a Poetry Festival or Conference
How
to plan a Writers' Reading Party
What
is a Time Bank?
Links
to OTHER TIME BANK POETRY GROUPS
London Time Bank news
LONDON
TIME BANKS LISTED BY SPECIAL INTEREST
West Euston Time Bank
West Euston Third Age
Project
ARCHIVES: First Annual Norah Platt Poetry
Prize 2006
judge (70 and over): Kim Morrissey; presented by Camden New Journal
Columnist Rose Hacker
judges (12 and under category): Tony Bloor and Shahanara Begum; presented
by Camden Councillors Penny Abraham, Arthur Graves, and 2006 Camden
Mayor Jill Fraser
West Euston Purple
Poets (up-coming events)
History of the West Euston Purple Poets
ART
and The Crypt (Munster Square):
a short talk by Duncan McGibbon
Literary Anecdotes
of the Purple Poets and guests
London Strategy
For Older People's Group (LOPSG)
Berkeley's
Tree House Virtual Poetry Café
Dick Collins Hall
Tea Dance and Garden Party
Cumberland Market
June 13th 2008
Camden Green Fair
June 1st 2008
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
March 1 2008
International Woemns Day Dance
Dick Collins Hall
February 21, 2008
International Language Day
H-Pod Cumberland Square
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.
The Purple Poets Eppie Caredda, Sheilagh 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 brief 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
webpage: www.groupadvocacy.org.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
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 fabdulahi@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
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!
CONTACT ADDRESSES
West Euston Time Bank:
Telephone: 020 7383 4382
Address: 69-75
Stanhope Street
London NW1 3LD
Time Broker:
Shahanara Begum
shahanara@westeustontimebank.org.uk
Workshop Mentor:
Kim
Morrissey
Workshop Facilitators:
Tony Bloor and Urmi Nurjahan
ADDRESS:
West Euston Time
Bank
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk
West Euston Third Age
Project
info@thirdageproject.org.uk
Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
020 7 383 4922
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For Press and Promotional packs
and details concerning the Norah Platt Prize,
(or to be added to the e-mail mailing list)
please contact Tony
Bloor.
The London Time Bank is supported by The Community Fund,
Association of London Government, the King's Fund
and Bridge House Estates Trust
TBUK
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.
Time Bank Poetry
sponsored by
Arts Council England
The West Euston Time Bank Poetry Workshop
was funded in 2004 - 2006 by the Arts Council, the
Carnegie Trust,
Time Bank UK and The New Economics Foundation
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