Poets and Heroes Need an Audience Too!

Our special guest poets:
Elaine Feinstein and Alan Brownjohn
Our poets will be reading
to the Mayor of Camden
Come meet everyone.

Poets and heroes need an audience, as well!

click here, and tell us if you would like to attend this Camden celebration
Thursday afternoon 2-4 Camden Town Hall
or e-mail: infoATthirdageproject.org.uk
or ring Tony (poor Urmi has chickenpox!)
020 7383 4922

historic National Poetry Day art performance Camden 2009

Camden artist Jo WOnder is one of our guests for National Poetry Day and she will be showing her stunning inter-active Ophelia-in-Progress Art and Poetry project, using some of our Purple Poets and TAD members as live Ophelias. It's an inspiring project, and it's exciting to watch a work-in-progress. Jo's Ophelia makes you want to write poems! Her 'Ophelia' is painted in bacteria (part of a project for the Wellcome Trust) and is modelled on the iconic John Everett Millais painting of Elizabeth Siddal as Ophelia). You can see it on YouTube, with the poems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXv9Mc5KbI0&feature=channel

Elaine Feinstein and Alan Brownjohn are our special guests!

Elaine Feinstein and Alan Brownjohn are our special guests for National Poetry Day. Hurrah! Come have tea (and your picture taken) with the Mayor of Camden, Councillor Omar Faruque Ansari! October 8th in the afternoon at Camden Town Hall, Judd Street.

The Heroes on Postcards reading starts at 2 in the Town Hall Council Chamber, and then moves to the foyer for tea with the Mayor at 3, continuing with one-to-one chats with poets and On-The-Spot readings(including some very special On-THE-Spot HERO perfomances by the wonderful TAD's).

Everyone welcome. Free. Wheel-chair accessible.

www.purplepoets.com

EVERY HERO'S PICTURE TELLS A STORY

I still have my digital camera in the box it came in last Christmas, but I'm going to get it out and give it a go, after reading Pam Grant's very accessible articles on digital photography at http://intopics.blogspot.com. She's a wonderful artist (and a secret poet). If you are a photographer or a genius with a mobile phone camera, and you'd like to come help us archive the heroes and poets on National Poetry Day (October 8th, Camden Town Hall, from 2 p.m.) please contact the West Euston Time Bank and let Tony and Urmi know. Telephone: 02073834922

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Purple Poets' Special Guest - Alan Brownjohn

Wonderful news! The World is A-wash With Heroes!

Alan Brownjohn will be the Purple Poets' special guest at the National Poetry Day 2009 readings of Poems for Heroes on Postcards, at the Camden Town Hall. Colin Shelbourn, Britain's first radio cartoonist, has very generously designed a poster for us.



Marshall Seltzer (founder of Cenlyt Designs) has been a hero as well, spending way too much time of his free time late into the evening helping us set our new home and giving advice about Text Accessibility on the Web.

www.purplepoets.com
The reading at the Camden Town Hall is open to Borough of Camden Poets and Heroes - so send us your Poem on a Postcard, if you'd like to attend.

Speaking of heroes, Jo Cammack's moving documentary The Time Of Their Lives, will have a showing at the Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, this coming Thursday (17th of September). If you haven't seen it, take time to go. It includes footage of my friend Rose Hacker.

I met Rose when she was 100, and just starting her new job as a Camden New Journal columnist. I invited her to be one of the Purple Poets' Honoured Guests at National Poetry Day 2006. The film also follows peace activist Hetty Bower and novelist Alison Selford, over a year of filming at the Mary Feilding Guild Residential Care Home, Highgate. (The film was first shown in the Storyville strand of BBC TV last summer).

www.timeoftheirlives.com

Go to the website to sponsor Hetty's latest walk on September 26th (just a week before her 104th birthday!)

National Poetry Day 2009

National Poetry Day is on October 8, 2009 and this year's theme is Heroes.

If you have a hero who lived or worked or died in Camden, write us a poem on a postcard.

Send it by September 25th to:

The Purple Poets

West Euston Time Bank

Crypt Centre

Munster Square

West Euston

London

NW1 3PL

We will have poets reading their postcard poems to the Mayor of Camden at Camden Town Hall on October 8, between 2.00 and 3.00 p.m. Everyone's postcards will be on display.