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24 February 2024

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23 March 2024

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23 March 2024

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27 March - 28 March 2024

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A Place of Our Own

29 September - 22 December 2023

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7 September 2023

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31 August 2023

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POETRY READING: 100 Years of The Waste Land

THURS 17 NOV / 4.30–8PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY

REGISTER HERE, to attend as audience

(FREE TO DROP IN THROUGHOUT THE EVENING)

 

Are you a reader of poetry?

Do you like to read aloud?

Are you part of a community group that would like to celebrate this poem together?

Open Eye Gallery is actively rethinking what a gallery can be. We invite you to get involved in a celebration of voices.

Come and join us to take part in a collective reading of The Waste Land or to read your own poem that is inspired by T.S.Eliot’s modernist masterpiece. We also welcome musicians who want to play a piece in celebration or response to the poem.

 

My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.

Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.

What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?

I never know what you are thinking. Think.

 

It is 100 years since this seminal work was published. T.S.Eliot’s long poem mixes voices, texts and reflects on themes of language, post-war alienation, death, and loss.

The celebration will open with readings of poems inspired by The Waste Land as well as music. We will also share a digital display of photography that responds to its themes and ideas.

Wendy Smith, electroacoustic composer, will be making a field recording of The Waste Land rehearsal and event for possible future use in composition or new collaborative work.

To book a reading slot, and for more information about how you can get involved, contact Pauline Rowe: pauline@openeye.org.uk

To read the poem follow this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

To hear the poem being read by Alec Guinness follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw

The Waste Land by TS Eliot is © TS Eliot and is reused at our event with the permission of Faber & Faber Limited.

 

Programme 

4.30 pm Doors Open

4.45 pm Welcome:  Pauline Rowe 

4.55 pm Elspeth McLean

 Instrumental

The Gramophone

5.00 pm Julia Price 

My Thoughts on T.S.Eliot 

5.05 pm Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici  

Ce te legeni? by Mihai Eminescu

Golden Vibes 

Peace and Flowers

5.10 pm Suzie S Wood

5.15 pm Brian Wharton

5.20 pm Liz Goodridge

The Love Song of a Hard-Boiled Egg by Frank Goodridge       

Waste Land Revisited by Gary Day

5.25 pm Paula Frew

The Fight

5.30 pm Flloyd Kennedy

5.40 pm Dave Ward & John Hughes

Selected readings from  The Scrap Heap 

(The Waste Land in Scouse) by R.L. Crawford.

6.00 pm [Break]

6.05 pm  Andrea Power

Remains

6.10 pm Margaret Ryan

The Georgian Terrace

Healing Prayer

6.15 pm Claire Beerjeraz  

6.25 pm Cath Holland

Dance Where No One Watches

6.30 pm Helen Tookey

Reading from  ‘In the Quaker Hotel’ (Carcanet, 2022)

6.50 pm

Part I: The Burial of the Dead Sermon

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

Paula Frew

Barbara Murray

Brenda Roberts

Julia Price

Brian Wharton

Anna Maria Parry

Andrea Power

Part II: A Game of Chess Sermon 

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

Helen Tookey

Shirley Jones

Sheila Jones

Suzie S Wood

Julia Price

Paula Frew

Brian Wharton

Andrea Power

Part III: The Fire Sermon 

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

Anna Maria Parry

Pauline Rowe

Cath Holland

Claire Beerjeraz

Bronwen H 

Flloyd Kennedy

Julie

Part IV: Death by Water

Music: Phil & Richard

Reader:

Jack Bennett

Part V: What the Thunder Said

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

                    Ali Harwood                   

Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici

Jane Eckford

Liz Goodridge

Pauline Rowe 

Anna Maria Parry

8 pm Doors close

 

Image credit: Áine Rowe

THURS 17 NOV / 4.30–8PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY

REGISTER HERE, to attend as audience

(FREE TO DROP IN THROUGHOUT THE EVENING)

 

Are you a reader of poetry?

Do you like to read aloud?

Are you part of a community group that would like to celebrate this poem together?

Open Eye Gallery is actively rethinking what a gallery can be. We invite you to get involved in a celebration of voices.

Come and join us to take part in a collective reading of The Waste Land or to read your own poem that is inspired by T.S.Eliot’s modernist masterpiece. We also welcome musicians who want to play a piece in celebration or response to the poem.

 

My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.

Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.

What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?

I never know what you are thinking. Think.

 

It is 100 years since this seminal work was published. T.S.Eliot’s long poem mixes voices, texts and reflects on themes of language, post-war alienation, death, and loss.

The celebration will open with readings of poems inspired by The Waste Land as well as music. We will also share a digital display of photography that responds to its themes and ideas.

Wendy Smith, electroacoustic composer, will be making a field recording of The Waste Land rehearsal and event for possible future use in composition or new collaborative work.

To book a reading slot, and for more information about how you can get involved, contact Pauline Rowe: pauline@openeye.org.uk

To read the poem follow this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

To hear the poem being read by Alec Guinness follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw

The Waste Land by TS Eliot is © TS Eliot and is reused at our event with the permission of Faber & Faber Limited.

 

Programme 

4.30 pm Doors Open

4.45 pm Welcome:  Pauline Rowe 

4.55 pm Elspeth McLean

 Instrumental

The Gramophone

5.00 pm Julia Price 

My Thoughts on T.S.Eliot 

5.05 pm Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici  

Ce te legeni? by Mihai Eminescu

Golden Vibes 

Peace and Flowers

5.10 pm Suzie S Wood

5.15 pm Brian Wharton

5.20 pm Liz Goodridge

The Love Song of a Hard-Boiled Egg by Frank Goodridge       

Waste Land Revisited by Gary Day

5.25 pm Paula Frew

The Fight

5.30 pm Flloyd Kennedy

5.40 pm Dave Ward & John Hughes

Selected readings from  The Scrap Heap 

(The Waste Land in Scouse) by R.L. Crawford.

6.00 pm [Break]

6.05 pm  Andrea Power

Remains

6.10 pm Margaret Ryan

The Georgian Terrace

Healing Prayer

6.15 pm Claire Beerjeraz  

6.25 pm Cath Holland

Dance Where No One Watches

6.30 pm Helen Tookey

Reading from  ‘In the Quaker Hotel’ (Carcanet, 2022)

6.50 pm

Part I: The Burial of the Dead Sermon

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

Paula Frew

Barbara Murray

Brenda Roberts

Julia Price

Brian Wharton

Anna Maria Parry

Andrea Power

Part II: A Game of Chess Sermon 

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

Helen Tookey

Shirley Jones

Sheila Jones

Suzie S Wood

Julia Price

Paula Frew

Brian Wharton

Andrea Power

Part III: The Fire Sermon 

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

Anna Maria Parry

Pauline Rowe

Cath Holland

Claire Beerjeraz

Bronwen H 

Flloyd Kennedy

Julie

Part IV: Death by Water

Music: Phil & Richard

Reader:

Jack Bennett

Part V: What the Thunder Said

Music: Phil & Richard

Readers:

                    Ali Harwood                   

Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici

Jane Eckford

Liz Goodridge

Pauline Rowe 

Anna Maria Parry

8 pm Doors close

 

Image credit: Áine Rowe

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