Here you can view films, photographs and artwork and read poems showcased on Something for the Weekend, and find links to websites and online events mentioned on the show. (You can watch the whole shows here including with captions on all videos). The content is usually listed in the order it appears on the show. This page is updated on Friday afternoons and should be complete by 6pm.  We’d love to see any poems, arts and crafts you have created at home using the same themes or activities: info@together2012.org.uk

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30 July 2021

Dressing Up to Go Out to Stay In: Everyone dressed up to stay in to support Team GB and all of the athletes at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics who are competing without a live audience. View on BBC and BBCiPlayer.

Poems from the Together! 2012 Pop-Up Poetry Club Theme: TV Sport. If you’d like to join in from home, next week’s theme is ‘Space travel’. Find out more here about how to join the Club, which takes place on Wednesday mornings from 10.30am-12 noon by phone (we call you and pay the costs).

Paizah Malek: TV Sports  

In sports you move your body
To keep your mind active and healthy
Movement is my form of sport
Doing it at home or at the resort
To keep my limbs light and flexible
My back and hips from feeling terrible
I go to the Gym for practice
To ensure all parts stay in one piece
I join the salsa, zumba and exercises
The accompanying music is simply gorgeous
We have it in the hall
Free from wind and rainfall
Also at the open Park
Full of fresh air and never dark
I do many forms of Sport
So that my mind and body never rot.

Dwain Bryan: TV Sport

My favourite sports channel is Question Of Sport
Where I sit down and resort
It is very entertaining
and it focus’s my brain in
They will make you laugh
They will make you smile
They will entertain you for a while
They will ask you questions that you may not know
They will ask you questions
They will make you smile
They will entertain you
They run the show
They will ask you questions
You may not know
They will goggle your mind

Dawn Barber: The Strongest Man

They lift and pull the strongest men
They sweat and shout
To let us know
What it’s all about
It’s exciting to watch them on T.V
They are so brave
I don’t know how they do it
Pulling cars and lorries along
Lifting weights and great big stones
What a show
Give praise to them all
You’re doing a great job.

Ellen Goodey: Jump High

Jump high
I like swimming
Swimming away
Like the Olympics
I like football
My favourite sport
Goal
In the net
Jump up high
On the trampoline

Taylor Henville: Sports on TV

In the sprint going for gold
Got to be fast, got to be bold
Now the diving board
Up the ladder
jump and splash
The audience chatters
Long jump, high jump, racing cars
Gymnasts balance on the bar
And viewers in awe of what they’ve seen
Cheer from home at their TV screens.

Crystal Peasy: Olympics

If I was in the Olympics
I would go swimming every day
Then I would be active
In sport
and flexible
I would do things that I have never done before
And maybe getting fitter
I would not be relying on
An oxygen machine
And my wheelchair
And all the equipment that I use now
I can have air
And butterfly wings

Glory Sengo: Rugby

When I was watching Rugby Union
I was watching Sale and Leicester
And Martin Johnson was scoring ten points
And they were scoring more – 24 points
They were passing to each other
And they were running
And they scored a hundred points.

Alison Marchant: The Long Distance Runner

On TV I watched an old monochrome film
From 1959
About a rebellious youth at a reform home
Who finds that he has a talent for Long Distance Running
It was a way to cope
With his troubles
During his solitary runs
He finds a sense of freedom
Memories of his life and times flood before him
Which led him to evaluate
His status as the institution Governor’s prize runner
In the final run for a prestigious prize
Against a pupil of a public school
Despite the roars of the crowd
He deliberately stops
Just before the finish line
And lets the other win.

Julie Newman: Day Five Tokyo 2020

The rich warmth of other peoples’ efforts
Unfold as weeks of variety are promised.
Tickets are free, no queues. Parking is easy
The house allows a choice of seats.
Snacks available as needed.
So we settle down and prepare to watch the fates
Of others, not in the hands of Gods but judges.

By Day Five our lives have been enriched
With the marvels of team sports
Opening the mysteries of rules and penalties.
The clash of sticks, the flash of a speeding ball,
The splash of churning water
Create a riveting theatre in which to view
The dramas of human endeavour.

The arenas are varied.
Waters boiling with human fish.
Leaping out, running for two wheels
Then pedalling through landscapes new
To finish, making their ways
Through the clash of wheels and ambition
Ending with surprised faces and broken dreams.

Fields with brightly coloured players
Running back and forth in pursuit
Of success, measured by the placement
Of a flying ball into a net, over a line.
How rich this feast, restricted only by the impact
Of sleepless nights and attention
Distracted from the demands of daily life.

Then come the tears, mixed with waters
Dripping from the shoulders of heroic
Embattled swimmers. Rejoicing with
Families separated by the miles,
But solidly supporting, loving their local heroes.
Much talk of journeys, troubled bodies
Carrying the toll of years of pain.

New understanding comes of sports freshly
Viewed. Kicks and falls become the norm
Through days of careful explanation
Given freely by softly spoken experts.
Medals fly past open hands then settle
Around the necks of the worthy,
Who poise proudly bearing their fruits.

Apparatus fills the screen as crocodiles
Of fit young people are herded
Between fresh opportunities to shine.
Full turns, summersaults, combination
Cartwheels, and double pikes become
The language of the day. As is the talk of
The hands of the judges and broken ambition.

Dancing horses enraptured viewers with
Shining coats and rippling muscles.
Controlled and held in check as forearms
Raised, while stepping hooves twinkle
And shine in the light. Against the
Background of majestic music this
Partnership ends with pride if not medals.

This first taste, full of energy and endeavour
Brings a flavour of more to come.
The celebration of athletics and sport
Flourishes even in the face of adversity.
There is a constant uncertainty which is
Reflected the sudden absences but then
The joy of those who triumph overcomes.

Duncan Bridgstock: Exciting Modern Jazz

I’m not in a hurry
For Andy Murray
Sport scores
Nought
In my estimation
I don’t want to vent my spleen
But Bebop is more my scene.

Together! 2012 Art Club The Art Club runs a still-life session on Zoom from 11-12 every Friday morning: click on the photo to view a larger version and join in from home. The Art Club also runs a Make and Natter session on Zoom from 11-12 every Tuesday morning. Bring along your own work, or join in with inclusive recycled craft activities. Click here to find out how to join the Art Club. We’d love to see your pictures: send them to info@together2012.org.uk

Join in with Tracy: Make a greetings card from paper and recycled card.

Join in with Sterre: Make a fountain.

The Clockwork Paralimpics To join in at home, pick the toy on the right side or the left side of the screen to support before you start the video.

The Week Ahead

Anyone can write: Introduction to Writing Bootcamp for novice and intermediate writers. Free. Monday 2 August 6-7.30pm. Led by an Olivier Award-nominated writer and funded by Arts Council England, this online workshop covers structure, character development, dialogue, finding your own voice, funding and programming. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-introduction-to-writing-bootcamp-for-novice-and-intermediate-writers-tickets-161545187003

Fire and Dust: an online Open Mic poetry event. Thursday 5 August. Free. Opens at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. Also featuring a headline set from Belfast poet Elizabeth McGeown. Organised monthly by Coventry’s Big Comfy Bookshop, there is a ‘lucky dip’ for 3-minute Open Mic spots at the start of the evening. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-and-dust-online-5th-august-2021-tickets-163734266599

Colour Theory and how you should use it. Free. Thursday 5 August. 6-7pm. Presented by Sabrina Matheson, this is a useful introduction to colour theory, the meaning of colours and choosing colours for your brand. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/color-theory-tickets-158924959833

Julie recommends…

Perennials and Pollinators. Saturday 31 July  6-7.30pm (also available to watch afterwards as it will be recorded). Free. This is an international offering so features hummingbirds and other beautiful pollinators, but will be of interest to all budding gardeners and naturalists: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/perennials-and-pollinators-tickets-156305601261?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

Milap presents tabla player Rimpa Siva live as part of their Music for the Mind and Soul concert series. Saturday 31 July at 1pm. Free. Milap is the UK leading organisation for Indian Arts and Culture: https://www.list.co.uk/event/1689063-milap-presents-music-for-the-mind-and-soul/

Tracy recommends…

The Rap Game UK. BBC 3 Thursday at 10:35pm or BBC iPlayer anytime. Series 3 has just started and six more of the UK’s aspiring rappers begin the challenge for the £20,000 prize to help launch their careers into the big time. With writing and performing challenges, this exciting show will tests these rappers’ skills and nerves as they compete to survive into the final round and battle for future success.

Relaxation through Art with Artist Brenda Coyle. 21 July – 21 August 10am – 6pm online via YouTube. Free. Have fun learning some ways to meditate through art.  Each week Brenda will look at different areas of creativity, and how to build them into a building a creative schedule.  Suitable for all abilities, with easy step by step instructions: https://www.artrabbit.com/events/relaxation-through-art-with-artist-brenda-coyle

Robin recommends…

Virtual Grand Canyon Tours. Online anytime. Free. The Grand Canyon is one of the most truly breath-taking natural phenomena the world has to offer, from the incredible river trips, to 6000 feet high jaw-dropping cliffs, the canyon cut by the Colorado River over millions of years is available to visit online.  Prepare to be wowed: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/photosmultimedia/virtualtour.htm

And of course the Tokyo Olympics Continue on BBC iPlayer. Choose your favourite sports to watch, or try a new one, and support Team GB and all of the international athletes who are competing for the first time without a live audience.

And finally… Robin interviews Liverpool-based emerging songwriter John Cotham aka Sandstone Silver.

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23 July 2021

Dressing Up to Go Out to Stay In: Everyone dressed up to stay in to support Team GB and all of the athletes at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics who are competing without a live audience. View on BBC and BBCiPlayer for the next two weeks.

Poems from the Together! 2012 Pop-Up Poetry Club Theme: A film I like. If you’d like to join in from home, next week’s theme is ‘TV Sport’. Find out more here about how to join the Club, which takes place on Wednesday mornings from 10.30am-12 noon by phone (we call you and pay the costs).

Crystal Peasey: A Film That Makes Me Happy

I like to talk about the films I like
Especially musicals
Music makes me happy
I like musical films
They make me happy
And excited
I also like to sing along with the music
When the music is over it is very hard to leave
I love to dance
The dancing makes me happy
The musical is part of my life
Life is not easy without musicals
And if the musical is not around life is harder
And my life will be very quiet
And my life is never the same again.

Glory Sengo: The Little Mermaid

Isn’t it neat?
Wouldn’t you think I’m the girl
The girl who has everything?
Look at this trove
who cares
I’ve got more
You want anything in the box
I’ve got twenty!

Dwain Bryan:  A Film I Like

There are many films I like
Heat, and Pulp Fiction
Watched again and again
It’s like addiction
Some are science fiction
Go to the cinema
And you pay for your ticket
You get your pop-corn
And maybe a drink
You sit in your seat
I get quite excited
And I shuffle in my seat
Sometimes to me
The cinema is quite loud
But that does not bother me
I’m here to see it out

Ellen Goodey: Trap Me

Trap, trap,
Lots of traps
Trap me
You will keep me
Home Alone
Falling down the stairs
Glow sticks
Glow up in the dark
Trap me
Keep me forever

Dawn Barber: The Secret Garden

This was such a magical calming film
With all the lovely flowers and animals
The sweet little robin
You felt like you wanted to be there
Lovely children playing happy and free
Putting their heart and soul into making the garden nice
Finding something to love
And I loved it when the little girl opened the secret door with the key
It was so exciting
They found the secret garden
And it found them and gave them love too

Taylor Henville : The Witches

Mice running through the kitchen
They know what they need to do
Gotta stop the witches
Gotta pour the potion in the soup.

With a flick of a tail
The potions in, now it’s time to scurry.
Gotta dodge the kitchen knives
Gotta get back to grandma, hurry!

The witches eat the soup
No clue what’s ahead, and just like that
With puffs of green and purple smoke
The witches twist and melt
Into little rodents
Scurrying from the hotel folk.

Duncan Bridgstock : Listing to Port

The martians are coming
look out
beware
the wombles are coming
look out
caution
the clangers are coming
look out
attention
the cyber men are coming
look out
hey
wurzell gummage is coming
look out
baby
bungle and zippy are coming
look out
oh yeah daddy
bill and ben the flowerpot men are coming
lookout
i’m telling ya
catweazle is coming
lookout
i mean
zippy the bush kangaroo is coming
lookout
when I say
lookout
boom boom.

Julie Newman: Films I Like

Today I see the stars but not in the sky.
They shine on a screen, once silver
And behind velvet curtains,
With enthusiastic fingers hitting the keys
Of plonky pianos or soaring organs.

No voices were heard from open mouths,
Just boards flashing across the screens,
With words of entreaty writ large.
Pleading for mercy, or chasing after villains,
The action fast, the movements jerky.

But now, they shine within my home.
The screen lights up, the music starts.
Credits role and the stories begin to
Wend their inevitable way, drawing us
Into their magical worlds.

The box of delights opens up so much
And brings the lives of bygone years
Faithfully drawn, they now become
Like old friends. So familiar, their stories
Told so often they blend into our lives.

Regency worlds, rich in colours and passion.
Others drawn in the relentless heat of
poverty, echo songs of loss and struggle.
So many stories, so many choices.
Our worlds are rich with films.

Together! 2012 Art Club

The Art Club runs a still-life session on Zoom from 11-12 every Friday morning. Click here to find out how to join the Club, and click on the photo to view a larger version and join in from home. We’d love to see your pictures: info@together2012.org.uk

The Art Club also runs a Make and Natter session on Zoom from 11-12 every Tuesday morning. Bring along your own work, or join in with inclusive recycled craft activities. Click here to find out how to join the Art Club.

Collages from recycled card by Duncan Bridgstock:

Crystal Peasy’s pom-poms:

Make your own percussion pan drums – see www.kitchencarnival.org for more activities.

Join in with Sterre: Make a hedgehog.

The Clockwork Paralimpics To join in at home, pick the toy on the right side or the left side of the screen to support before you start the video.

The Week Ahead

Ju recommends…

Instagram for Artists by Triple C. Tuesday 27 July 1.30-2.30pm. Free. BSL interpretation and automatic captions. With Jennifer Gilbert from the Jennifer Lauren Gallery and Adam Koszary, the social media and content manager from the Royal Academy of Arts, this sessions explains how to promote your work and network successfully on Instagram: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instagram-for-artists-tickets-162705459409

Voices from Prison by Clean Break. Wednesday 28 July 6-7.15pm. Free. Celebrating creative writing by women from 12 prisons – many of whom have mental health and/or learning difficulties – about life during Covid, life in prison and hope. With readings and a panel discussion: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-from-prison-tickets-151178540083

Julie recommends…

The List has links to a range of free arts online activities: https://www.list.co.uk/events/visual-art/online-events/price:free/#results

Google Virtual Tours of Arts and Culture, especially this one of Paris roof tops: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/walk-around-5-iconic-parisian-rooftops/nwISWA6wXt3HKA

UK Film Channel has a wide range of free films available online including documentaries:  https://www.ukfilmchannel.co.uk/free-documentaries

Robin recommends…

The Watch. BBC iPlayer. Free anytime. In a world where crime is legal, a group of chaotic misfit cops rise up to save their city from catastrophe. A punk rock comedy thriller inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.  If sport isn’t your thing, or you need s break from the Olympics, watch The Watch.  A very funny adult comedy crime series set in a fictitious world floating somewhere in space…

David Hockney Online – Drawing People & Interiors. 31 July 5-6.30pm. Online. Free with suggested £10 donation via Eventbrite. David Hockney.  Hockney created some incredible portraits of people and their relationship to inside spaces, and this live or recorded class will give you some great tips and ideas with a live model too. Follow the link below to find out more about this great opportunity, including a list of materials that you will need to take part: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-hockney-online-drawing-people-and-interiors-tickets-159146006991?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

And finally… Robin Surgeoner interviews Disabled dancer Linda Fearon about her life and work. Linda’s film Armour Off is being screened on Sunday 25 July as part of the Galway Film Festival: Armour Off’ by Linda Fearon, Disabled Dancer from Armagh Northern Ireland: https://galwayfilmfleadh.eventive.org/films/60d6659dbcbcb400a02d831f

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9 July 2021

Dressing Up to Go Out to Stay In: Julie dressed up for the Wimbledon finals on the BBC; Ju dressed up for Disability Pride Month; Tracy dressed up to watch The Mighty Ducks on the Disney Channel; and Robin dressed up for the England v Italy match.

Poems from the Together! 2012 Pop-Up Poetry Club Theme: A Song I like. If you’d like to join in from home, next week’s theme is ‘This makes me smile’. Find out more here about how to join the Club, which takes place on Wednesday mornings from 10.30am-12 noon by phone (we call you and pay the costs).

Dawn Barber: Stormy Weather

I’m sitting in a small café
On the corner of Mark Street
The weather is terrible, rain and wind
Even some lightning
I’m drinking my cup of tea
I cannot go home just yet
So, I order another one
The rain banging heavy on the windows
A man comes in dressed in a mac
Soaking wet with his umbrella
‘What weather’ he says
‘Yes, terrible isn’t it’ I say
‘But let’s brave it out
Because tomorrow the sun may come through and shine
All we can do is hope.’

Dwain Bryan: Stormy Weather

It rains
It snows
And at times the sun doesn’t show
British weather is so unpredictable
The weather can be dull
You look outside
And it could be raining
You look outside
And your heart could be draining
Why is the weather so bad?
Why is the weather so sad?
Why doesn’t the sun shine?
I guess it’s because its winter time
Bad weather can lay heavy on your mind
Bad weather can make you miserable all the tine
Ok it’s winter time
And I guess the sun won’t shine
It may be full of snow
It may be full of rain
But I know one thing, winter still remains.

Glory Sengo: Stormy Day

When it was a snowy day
I was playing snowball fights in the garden
With my next door neighbour Louise
We were having a cup of tea and biscuits
The rain and wind were pouring badly.

Crystal Peasey: Stormy Weather

I’m talking about stormy weather
Today there is thunder and lightning
When the rain hits you very hard
It can knock you out
The lightning flashes faster
And can be over very quickly
Stormy weather is very dangerous
And you can slip over and break your legs and neck
We can see the lightning before we hear thunder.

Taylor Henville: Stormy Weather

Stormy weather beating down
Rain pouring, hits the ground
Stormy weather, stormy weather
Streets are empty
Thunder aplenty
Stormy weather, stormy weather
Lightning flashes
Wind crashes
Stormy weather, stormy weather
Skies grumbling
Grey clouds hovering
Stormy weather, stormy weather.

Alison Marchant: Storm

Louder and louder
the wind sweeps across the trees
Cracking branches
Leaves unlock and drift
Amongst thick black clouds
Thunder rolls
A snake of lightning
Threatening purple
Dull thunder rumbles along
And loudly claps
Wind blows sheets of heavy rain
Bowing trees
Wind unrolls
Crashing
And long howling
Carnival of storm
Unrested and glorious.

Julie Newman: Stormy weather

A gull sits on the chimney.
The storm’s coming in from the sea.
The breaking sun struggles while
Clouds sit heavy, thick, and dark.
For an instant the world is still.
Paused, waiting for crashing of the waves
To break hard against the shore,
Flinging stones and foam against the cliffs,
Waiting, paused until the moment is lost.
Forgotten in the sudden onslaught of noise.

The sea boils and rears it’s head.
No longer the calm sands, gentle waves
Flowing in eddies with the tides.
Foam flung in force against the walls,
Makes shapes of fearful splendour.
Waves reach high breaking with force
Against the lonely lighthouse glass.
That beacon dims in the contest
To shine while the storm rages
In its quest returning Neptune to life.

The rain lashes with menace
Against the sea and shore, relentless
In its destructive sweep of whatever
Lies in its path. No respecter of life
Other than it’s own. Created in protest
As pressures fought against each other.
Wind blowing hard, smashes the branches
That snap in the onslaught, whirling through
The beaten front. Cliffs poised ready to fall.
Time becomes meaningless as the storm rages on.

Together! 2012 Art Club

The Art Club runs a still-life session on Zoom from 11-12 every Friday morning. Click here to find out how to join the Club, and click on the photo to view a larger version and join in from home. We’d love to see your pictures: info@together2012.org.uk

The Kitchen Carnival is taking place throughout July and August as part of our Summer Together! programme. Find out more here about how to make instruments and costumes from kitchen recycling and how to contribute to our film for Hackney Carnival Online.

The Clockwork Paralimpics To join in at home, pick the toy on the right side or the left side of the screen to support before you start the video.

The Week Ahead

Julie recommends….

Virtual tours of the British Museum Galleries. There are a range of collections including drawings and paintings.

To celebrate the Euros, a virtual tour of a city in Italy, including a walking tour of Venice: https://nextstop-italy.com/virtual-tours/

Ju recommends…

WORKING CLASS GIRLS ON SCREEN: Gender, Class & Stereotyping in British Film. Monday 12 July 6.30-8.30pm. Donation if you can afford it. Join academic and film buff Shelby Cooke and the London Drawing Group to discuss class, gender and stereotyping in British Film Culture! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-class-girls-on-screen-gender-class-stereotyping-in-british-film-tickets-152246578615

Virtual Reality Storytelling Workshop. Thursday 15 July 7pm – 10pm Sunday 18 July. Free. Discuss some of the innovative storytelling techniques being used in virtual reality with Venice VR’s Liz Rosenthal: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-reality-storytelling-workshop-with-liz-rosenthal-tickets-154553380321

Robin recommends….

European Cup Football Final Free on both BBC One and ITV. The Euro 2020 final will be played on Sunday 11 July. Kick-off time is 8pm, but coverage and pre-match chat will be on beforehand.  Try both sides and decide for yourselves which presenters you prefer.

The Best Virtual Art Exhibitions 2021 Online anytime – Free. Hosted by the Country and Town House website, along with lots of other culture and lifestyle information, the website has links to a host of fantastic online versions of current art exhibitions.  From Still Life photography to A Digital Landscape inhabited by Lobsters, the exhibitions hold something for just about everybody.  Explore and enjoy: https://www.countryandtownhouse.co.uk/culture/current-art-exhibitions-london/

And finally…

Trevor Krueger talks to Robin about the international Equal Ability Radio project. 

Robin sings his song Electricity, about the inspiration that the English football team has provided in the Euros.

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2 July 2021 We weren’t able to broadcast the show due to problems with Google, but here are our Highlights and Links as usual.

Poems from the Together! 2012 Pop-Up Poetry Club Theme: A Song I like. If you’d like to join in from home, next week’s theme is Stormy Weather. Find out more here about how to join the Club, which takes place on Wednesday mornings from 10.30am-12 noon by phone (we call you and pay the costs).

Ellen Goodey: A Song I Like

A song I like
a spoon full of sugar
it helps my medicine go down
a song I like
birds are singing
singing in the blossom trees
while the sun is shining

Dawn Barber: My favourite song by Rick Astley

When I first heard this song
I was with a friend in a club
It makes me feel so happy inside
It makes you feel you want to dance
It is full of joy
And it moves you to a place
Where you are on such a high
Like a mountain and beyond
Never gonna give you up
I won’t be doing that
That’s for sure

Dwain Bryan: A Song I Like

I have many songs I like
From Michael Jackson to Madonna
Which I will always cherish and honour
When I hear their music
I feel really good
Whether I’m in a rich area
Or in the hood
I also like rap music
Hip-hop you can say
When I hear their music
I’m happy all day
Garage, soul and dance music
Is in my mind a I cant refuse it
They say Michael Jackson was the King of Pop
But believe me he will never be forgot

Alison Marchant: River – After Waterloo Sunset

River
Rolling
Flowing
Busy
Dizzy
Bright
Sunset
From my window
Chilly
Evening time
Meeting
Every Friday night
Lazy
Wander
At night
I don’t feel afraid
I gaze
In paradise
People
Swarming like flies
Cross over the river
Safe and sound
They don’t need no friends
As long as they gaze
At the sunset
They are in paradise.

Julie Newman: The Pearl Fishers Duet

In the quiet of the afternoon,
A song came through the closed door.
The harmony of tenor and baritone
Captured my heart and taught it to soar.

In that moment angels were singing,
Breaking through the gloom of the day.
Not knowing the music that was ringing
Through the door, it continued to play.

I found the song, but never the source.
And loved to play it in my home.
An aria that still can impact with force.
My soul will soar as I hear that song.

Together! 2012 Art Club

The Art Club runs a still-life session on Zoom from 11-12 every Friday morning. Click here to find out how to join the Club, and click on the photo to view a larger version and join in from home. We’d love to see your pictures: info@together2012.org.uk

The Art Club also runs a Make and Natter session on Zoom from 11-12 every Tuesday morning. Bring along your own work, or join in with inclusive recycled craft activities. Click here to find out how to join the Art Club.

Duncan Bridgstock

Join in with Tracy: Pom-poms from recycled card and wool (you can also use string, ribbon, or strips of plastic or fabric). Pom-pom making is a favourite activity of ours and is enjoyed by people of all ages.

Join in with Sterre: Make a Bear.

The Clockwork Paralimpics To join in at home, pick the toy on the right side or the left side of the screen to support before you start the video.

The Week Ahead

Srebrenica Memorial Week will be taking place from Sunday 4 July. Newham will be joining communities across the UK to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the genocide, where over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim Men and Boys were murdered simply because of their faith.

Ju recommends…

Join Disability Arts Online to celebrate the official launch of Electric Bodies: Travels in Life History. Thursday 8 July 3.30-4.30pm. Through extensive life history interviews transcribed into poetry cycles, Electric Bodies reveals unique insights and epiphanies about disability, identity, art and the society in which we live. This celebration will feature a live reading from Electric Bodies by Allan Sutherland (see Allan’s interview with Robin Surgeoner below from 25 June); a panel discussion on what we learned about recording our history with Colin Hambrook, Vici Wreford-Sinnott and Allan Sutherland; and speeches and networking to showcase and celebrate the book and the artists involved. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/electric-bodies-launch-celebration-tickets-159114153717?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Julie recommends…

The British Museum virtual tours: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/how-to-explore-the-british-museum-from-home/

San Diego Zoo live cams. There are a massive range of animals to observe from your living room, including a burrowing owl! https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams

Watching tennis at Wimbledon on the BBC iPlayer, either online or on your TV streaming service.

Tracy recommends…

The Mighty Ducks – Game Changers. Disney Plus. Back in the 90s the Mighty Ducks were massive – fast forward to present day, and the Mighty Ducks are about to be re-born.  Their former coach, now Ice rink manager, makes a reluctant return to Ice Hockey, as Coach Mum and her rag tag team of adolescent ‘Skaters’ create a situation he can’t ignore.  Full of silly jokes, slap stick fun and moments of real emotional growth, the Mighty Ducks return to change the game. A great watch.

Robin recommends…

Extinct (online) from Stratford East Theatre. 13 – 18 July at various times, with prices from £10 based on what you can afford. A new play by April De Angelis’ that tackles the current climate change issues head on, including testimonials from environmental activists.  This one-woman show brings a thrilling tale of her single handed fight to avoid a climate catastrophe: https://www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all-shows/extinct-online?utm_campaign=1958386_Newsletter%20-%20Thu%2024%20Jun%202021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Theatreroyalstratfordeast&dm_i=355W,15Z3M,563XDF,4HZCG,1

Carousel TV 3 July 7pm and then throughout July on demand. Free. Looking for an alternative to the football – Why not settle down for some great entertainment from Carousel TV.  Filmed out and about in  Brighton, plus news, reviews and old favourites, Carousel TV utilises the on screen and behind the scene talents of People with Learning Difficulties.  A great evening of fun which will be repeated throughout the month: https://disabilityarts.online/events/caorusel-presents-carousel-tv-online/

And finally… A song to celebrate England’s appearance in the quarter-finals of the European Cup.

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