Past Events
MUSIC & POETRY
Reclaiming the heart, the soul and the flag: William Blake and radical England.
Saturday 18th October
7.30pm, Free / DonationsAn evening of poetry and live music with local musicians and writers in the creative and revolutionary spirit of Blake’s visions of Albion.
William Blake was essentially an antinomian and a part of an Nexus of radical Christian sects in late 17th and early 18th Century London. This Nexus grew out of the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and other groups resisting Cromwell’s betrayal of the people during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. He knew Thomas Paine (American and French Revolutions), Mary Wollstencraft and others surrounding Joseph Johnson a radical publisher, who was eventually imprisoned for sedition.
The basic theme of antinomianism is that once you accept Christ in your heart the set of laws perpetrated by Moses (Mosaic laws) were no longer relevant to your actions. All that applied were the laws your heart, acting with love told you. This seemed to drive Blake’s preoccupation with racism, gender and class/status inequalities, economic fairness, and his loathing of the Church and State Establishments of the time. and justice social status hierarchy. There was also the placing of creativity and imagination above reason, and science
We aim to entertain with poetry, music and images which capture the continuing relevance of Blake to the present day.
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World Mental Health Day
Friday 10th October
10am -11am,
Women in Harmony
Joyful choir singing world music led by Lisa Strong, £5 to join, free to listen, all welcome.12pm-2pm,
Slow Stitch Club
Bi-Monthly hand sewing group led by Suzi. (Currently full)World Mental Health Day
Steven Walker has organised the afternoon event. It is free to attend; you can join for some or all of the sessions. World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy against social stigma.3pm Tendring District Council introduction.
3.20 Mind North and Mid Essex
3.40 CVST Tendring`
4pm Refreshments and Social
5pm Samantha Earnshaw
5.30pm Walton Youth Club
6pm Ricky Frost, Poet, reading from his new book ‘What If We Were Water'.
6.30pm 'Tune in to Wellbeing' with meditative music & movement by her&her musicians (Cydnei B & Catherine Shrubshall) & movement specialist Georgie Ferraro.Image from the book cover of 'What If We Were Water' by Ricky Frost. Available for £10
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Script Writing Course
Saturday 4th October
2pm-4pm, £10 (Full)
Final Session of the 4-week writing course.
Writing Group Meeting
Saturday 4th October
4.30m-6pm, Free / Donations
Monthly meeting of local writers to get inspiration for their writing projects. Talks, discussions, writing prompts, and social. This month, we will be joined by Director/Writer Nick Pelas.Read moreMUSIC / BOOKS
Martin Newell’s Late Breakfast.
Saturday 28th June
11am-1pm, Free.
Stories and Music from The Home Recording Handbook
+ Breakfast Offer: Copy of the Book plus a Coffee and Croissant for £15.“This is not a home recording handbook,” says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled The Home Recording Handbook. Instead, it’s the long-overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It’s a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It’s a broadside to the music business. It’s a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It’s a ‘when not to’ and ‘why not to’ rather than a ‘how to’. It’s a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to a popular song. It’s a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell – a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it’s probably not a handbook.
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National Dish
Sunday 29th June, 1.30pm
Meal Adults £15, Children £9Join us celebrating the food of the world with two migrant families from RAMA (Refugee asylum seeker and Migrant action) when they cook their favourite national dish for us. Come for lunch and taste some delicious home cooked food and meet new people. Open from 1pm, and lunch for around 1.30pm. Booking essential as limited space.
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