The Poet's Calendar

ARCHIVES
2007 NATIONAL POETRY DAY
THE PURPLE POETS HOSTED THE
LONDON TIME BANK POETS
WRITERS' READING PARTY
WITH THEIR TEACHER
KIM MORRISSEY

and Special Workshop Guest:
Henry Woolf
"How To Read Poem"

Duncan McGibbon
ART and the Crypt
(a short talk)

04.10.2007 NPD
The Crypt, Munster Square

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

ARCHIVES
2005 NATIONAL POETRY DAY
LONDON TIME BANK POETS
READING WITH GUEST POET
ANDREW MOTION

THE POETRY CAFÉ
22 BETTERTON STREET, LONDON
READING WITH POET LAUREATE
ANDREW MOTION
06.10.2005

"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

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)

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

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!

this site is dedicated to the memory of West Euston Time Bank poet Norah Platt. Annual Norah Platt Poetry Prize 'Dream' is this year's theme and also the theme for the West Euston 2nd Annual Norah Platt Poetry Prize. deadline: Friday, November  16, 2007 the prize will be presented on December 7th, 2007 communal poem "The Stream"

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