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Blake/Magick/Poetry this Friday (28/11/03)

07:41 / 25.11.03

Tis the season to be wasted by the sounds of things - details below on a magick/poetry/party thing happening this weekend - I know a few people are interested (and some are coming for sure) but posting up to see if anyone else is interested....

| 24 Hour Poetry Event London 28th Nov |

William Blake's birthday 28th Nov sees an experimental 24 Hour Poetry
Spectacular, celebrating the life and work of William Blake and also
contemporary alternative poets following in his footsteps.

This living exhibition of Blakean and Radical poetry will be held as
part of a Private Party in Hoxton Square, running from 10pm Friday
28th Nov till 10pm Saturday 29th Nov

24 Hours of continuous performance in the main room featuring Niall
McDevitt, John Crow, Paradox, Spacegirl, Interferrence, Yap, Ernesto
the naked poet, Sedek Vulcan, Peter Pan, Michelle, Caress, Selena
Siliva and a host of London's top fringe performers.

With Space Girls Poetry Salon - Participatory Poetry and Open Mike

Visiondans' Magic Carpet Ride - Improvisational Area (Voice and Music)

Midday Saturday Poets and Dropouts Drop In - Open Mike for Poetz

Chill Space and Acoustic Music Area

'Bardic Rite' at Blake's Grave (around Sunset Saturday)

+ Psychedelic Blakean Video Show, Dancers and Art Exhibition.

Donation £5 (for 24 hours) Venue - 32 Hoxton Sq (Old St Tube)
London (UK)

Sounds like it could be interesting.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:43 / 25.11.03

It does indeed. I assume you can just turn up? I might be up for this on Friday night, perhaps we could meet somewhere nearby first...

Tryphena Absent

08:50 / 25.11.03

Oh my god- 'Bardic Rite' at Blake's Grave (around Sunset Saturday)

Marvellous.

09:43 / 25.11.03

Yeah I think you just turn up, I think there might be a password for the door (which I've been promised wont be Fidelio)..

I'm actually not working Friday so I'd be up for drinks before hand.

I'm hoping it'll be good and the £5 entrance is for the whole time so you can disappear and come back later (for the rite for example).

10:19 / 25.11.03

I think I'll come along to this. Where do you want to meet up beforehand?

10:31 / 25.11.03

Well Old Street tube is only 3 stops away from Holborn so how about the Princess Louise? Cheap and central right?

13:09 / 25.11.03

I'll be there, though possibly at da venue rather than in the Louise first, we'll see...

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:19 / 25.11.03

Don't really see the point of meeting somewhere that's a tube ride away from the venue, not when the area itself is hardly short of places to meet... How about the Foundry?

13:38 / 25.11.03

Foundry sounds good, and it's ages since we been there.

To answer some of the above questions, yeah, it's just turn up, and as far as I know, yeah, the £5 entrance is for the whole time so you can disappear and come back later (for the rite for example).

13:40 / 25.11.03

Don't blame me I'm from Scotland! If The Foundry is at Old Street then that'll be fine and dandy Sandy.

You come out of the tube and then walk down some road, I think I remember its the place that smells like a squat with hanging dolls right?

I think that was one of my first Barbemeet places.

Awwww Precious Memories

14:22 / 25.11.03

It is indeed down a street, Bear, ahem,
more specifically, it's here. And as for it smelling like a squat, that's because it is a squat. Well, not really, it's owned by Bill Drummond, but the effect is much the same. I can't recall which exit to take from Old St... it's one on the right, though, and I seem to recall it lies towards the Holiday Inn, non?

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:39 / 25.11.03

exit 2'll get you onto Old Street itself. then just walk towards the holiday inn/away from the roundabout... foundry's dead easy.

can you turn up anytime? ie, if i'm there at all it'll be post pub....

17:59 / 25.11.03

Anytime anyway! Do the special knock on the door and the special handshake and you'll be fine.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:25 / 25.11.03

This could be way cool...

08:37 / 27.11.03

Sounds fantasticly out of this world!! U can bet your bottom dollar i'll *b* there with all my friends, family and anyone else i can find along the way!!

1world, 1hug

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:43 / 27.11.03

what time at foundry?

05:54 / 28.11.03

I am simply so jealous of those of you attending this! I love Blake's poetry and art. He's an inspiration! This event sounds absolutely divine.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:39 / 28.11.03

7.30-8pm at the Foundry sound good to people?

09:03 / 28.11.03

Yeah sounds fine to me, I'll actually be out earlier in the PL if anyone is around?

10:29 / 28.11.03

Can anyone find the actual venue? I can't seem to find it on Multimap...

Am I the only one reading the thread title as Black Magick Poetry?

12:49 / 28.11.03

For some reason I keep reading it as Poerty =\

12:55 / 28.11.03

Oh that's it - mock the bear....bloody newbies...

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:49 / 29.11.03

well, that was alot of fun. completely failed to meet up with any Barbies, but bumped completely randomly into some mates from Brighton, talked and wandered around... there was, inevitably some awful performance poetry. BUT

Some *bloody great* spoken word/performance stuff. wicked. reminded me how much i like hearing human voices speaking/reading. some good-natured heckling:

"compere(black dreadlocked guy): so when i ask you if you're having a good time, i want you all to shout back Yes Rastaman

*we dutifully comply*

compere: I've always wanted to hear a bunch of middle-class white people say that.

me(raising hand): Oi...

compere grins and 'apologises'"

and probably the shiniest squat i've ever seen. better than most of my friends' rental homes *g*

Tho, I have had very little sleep, so be gentle with me if you see me in the pub this afternoon.

15:51 / 01.12.03

gah, i wuz ill. Hear it was bloody good, tho'. Pah.

17:37 / 24.05.04

Did anybody see the "naked poet" (...!) ?

Sounds like it could be fun... :-)