Transport info – Tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo)
Bus: 3, 59, 159.
Live links:-
www.projectblake.org/projects/
www.rootsandshoots.org.uk
See comment for full details of performers.
10 November, 2008
Blake in Lambeth – Project Blake Festival
Posted by Felicity under Events | Tags: art, music, poetry, visionary, William Blake |1 Comment
13 November, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of relaxation in a Paradise garden
“All that we See is Vision”
Poems, songs and a video projection based on Blake’s work.
This celebration of William Blake presents a multi-media event by poets, musicians and artists inspired by his continuing legacy in contemporary artforms. The participants are all contributors to the William Blake Birthday Book, which has acted as a focus to bring together this group of creative people.
Performers include Niall McDevitt and Liza Hayden / Stephen Micalef / Jay Ramsay / Jude Rawlins / Helen Moore, accompanied by Ken Masters and special guests
Biographies and links
Niall McDevitt is an actor/musician and poet and leads Blake/Rimbaud/Yeats walks in London. He has worked in Neil Oram’s 24-hour play The Warp, Ken Campbells’s Pidgin MacBeth and John Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries.
Liza Hayden is a poet, singer and actress who has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, Jonathan Kay’s Nomadic Academy and was in the original cast of Les Miserables.
Niall and Liza sing unique settings of Blake’s lyrics together.
Stephen Micalef has organised Blake Birthday Celebrations at both the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain and arranged ‘Blake Risings’ at Bunhill Fields. He was editor of the first punk fanzine ‘Sniffin’ Glue’ and founded The Brixton Poets and ran it for ten years. The “poet laureate” of Brick Lane, he is also poet-in-residence at Decima Gallery, London E3.
Jay Ramsay is the author, co-author & editor of over 30 books of poetry and non-fiction, most recently Crucible of Love – the alchemy of passionate relationships (O Books, 2005), The Heart’s Ragged Evangelist – love poems for the greater love (PS Avalon, 2005) and Into the Further Reaches – 64 poets on the spiritual journey (PS Avalon, 2007). He is also a psychospiritual psychotherapist & healer in private practice in Stroud & London.
http://www.lotusfoundation.org
Jude Rawlins is a writer, artist and rock singer. In his most recent work with his band Subterraneans, his literary influences have once again come to the fore, none more so than Blake. Jude Rawlins lives in Camden Town, North London. He is a member of the Charleston Trust, and artistic director of Blake 250, a series of London events celebrating the 250th anniversary of William Blake’s birth.
http://www.myspace.com/juderawlinsmusic
http://www.myspace.com/subterraneanswasere
Helen Moore is an eco-poet/environmental artist-writer based in North Somerset. She publishes poetry and prose in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including leading publications in the field of ecological and spiritual thinking, such as Resurgence Magazine and Green Spirit.
http://www.natures-words.co.uk
Paul Francis Cheetham, Alias …Jean Paul Dionysus -Ruskinson- Space Toad is an artist musician, poet and troubadour.
http://www.geocities.com/futurize03
http://www.myspace.com/drspacetoad