Check out our new website
Sue has set up this brand new website at http://offtherailswivenhoe.blogspot.com/. All the newest information will be on here. As soon as we can we’ll be merging all our websites into one central address.
NaNoWriMo at Colchester
There is a NaNoWriMo group meeting from tonight at Queen’s Rd. in Colchester. Click on the link for more details.
And here is the Rainbows amazing tree made of hand and foot prints.
Beautiful ‘handy’ work by the 2nd Wivenhoe Rainbows is now up at The Crab and Winkle Galllery, Platform 2.
Opportunity for Local Craft Workers at Christmas Fair
There are stalls still available at Colchester’s Christmas Fayre. Please read below for details.
The Father Christmas for Everyone Fayre.
10th December, 2011 - The Arts Centre, Colchester, from 7.30am to 6pm, doors open to public 10am.
This is a Christmas Fayre with a difference. A tongue-in-cheek theme, and a fantastic venue. Gerry Champion, one time Father Christmas in Iceland (the country, not the shop) will be giving small gifts to all and sundry - ably assisted, entirely in green, by ‘Big Elf’ (that’s me, and I have a stock of rejoinders to anyone who might insist that ‘Shrek’ is more the mark).
The emphasis of the event is on shopping, but this is not an event which simply accepts all-comers in terms of stallholders, and puts together the entertainment from whoever will participate for free. This is a strongly Christmas themed event, with limited numbers from each kind of stallholder, and something to keep both kids and parents busy while their friends and relatives buy them gifts. It is also indoors, and so reduces risks related to poor weather.
Colchester is a major town with a lively arts/music/entertainment scene, Colchester Arts Centre, one of the largest venue in the town centre, is somewhere that local people will readily relate to as a venue for an event of this kind.
Colchester Arts Centre will be promoting the event, in addition to my own promotion. The local tourist board, poster locations throughout the town (including residential areas), and the local media will be used. There will be canvassers on the high street on the day as well. Remember that this is a Saturday, very close to Christmas, so the high street will be particularly busy.
Charge is £30 for a 6’ table. Please send email, or return form attached by email to provisionally book a space.
Martin Reed
The Abbot Of Unreason - Events,
121 Rosemary Avenue,
Braintree,
Essex.
CM7 2TB
Tel: 01376-344948
Mob: 07530318604
Email: abbotofunreason@hotmail.co.uk
Opportunity to see some fantastic local poets
Next Poetry Wivenhoe Event
Dear poetrywivenhoe supporter,
Tobias Hill and Adrian May- Thursday October 27th at the Greyhound at 8. Tickets: £5.
Only nine days to go to one of the highlights of the year:two outstanding poets sharing the limelight.
This is what the reviewers said
Tobias Hill: http://tobiashill.com
“He is a poet with a darkly romantic imagination, which has also infused his several remarkable and rather haunting novels. As a London-based writer, Hill’s most characteristic mode has been called the urban-pastoral, observing Nature and its creatures alive in the city, while he also excels at sensory impressions, luminous details and delicate colourings. And throughout his poetry and prose there are sensuous vignettes of women: ‘On your skin / is the smell / of sweet abalone, / sweat, and ark shell, and bluefin’ (Sushi).
“Hill’s historical imaginings and travelogues are present in poems set in the Greek islands and Corinth, where ‘The air is soured by wine / and the ground darkened with oil’ (The Pilot in Winter).
“Tobias Hill’s delicacy of touch, allied to dark imaginings, gives his poetry and novels a unique hallmark: in them we find uneasy romance, the travails and pressures of history on his characters, and a range of sensory pleasures.”
Adrian May: http://myspace.com/adrianlmay
Adrian May has been involved with poetrywivenhoe since its inception, and (we quote) “Born, bred, buttered and jammed-on-the-A12, Adrian May writes poems full of Essex attitude: down-to-earth, poignant, funny, defiantly in the world of everyday; playful and witty, but not unserious” — An Essex Attitude(Wivenbooks 2009).
Adrian is a co-editor of KJV Old Text – New Poetry (Wivenbooks 2011).
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday week,
Chris.
Martha Haversham
Our current artist displaying work at ‘The Crab and Winkle Gallery’ is Martha Haversham. Martha founded ‘Off the Rails’ but retired from the group earlier this year. Fortunately for us, she’s been kind enough to allow us to display some of her fabulous mixed media work. Photos to follow.
