Up The Line Programme

Here is the programme for tonight's event. We look forward to seeing you there!

























Stations in order of appearance (starting from Brockley Gate, please reverse order if you arrived from Ladywell Gate)
1. Police Guard
2. Up The Line Choreography: Keren’Or Pézard (www.maaikor.info) Dancers: Yasuo Asano, Wei-Shan Lai, Karolin Bertilsson, Joana Clare, Aiala Urcelay, Typhaine Delaup, Yuko Shinoda
3. Memorial to those who died in Deptford through Zeppelin raids
4. Intermezzo op 117 no.1 in E flat and Intermezzo op 117 no.2 in B flat minor by Johannes Brahms, piano: Julian Jacobson
5. Line up for war - Film: Kai Clear (www.kaiclear.com) Projection: Declan McGill and Jon Lockwood
6. Diary of Albert Hugh Blackmore read by Harry Vendryes
7. Poems by Siegfried Sassoon read by Graham Buchan
8. Poems by Joseph Seamon Cotter, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Alec Waugh, Anon. read by John Clarke
9. Extracts from “In Parenthesis” by David Jones read by Paul McGrane
10. Zeppelin
11. First Movement of Sonata no.1 in G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, violin: Yuka Matsumoto
12. Poems by John McCrae, Robert William Service, Robert Freeman Trotter read by Heather Taylor
13. Poems by Bernard O’Dowd, Vance Palmer, Leon Gellert, Judith Wright read by Katherine Gallagher
14. Poems by Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Rifleman Donald S Cox, Joseph Lee, A P Herbert read by Joe Duggan
15. Poems by Marc de Larreguy de Civrieux, Georg Trakl, Franz Janowitz, Gerrit Engelke read by Isabel White
16. Cemetery Chapel open for lighting of candles and reflection
17. Poems by Géza Gyóni and Dimcho Debelyanov read by Csilla Novoszath and Kata Farkas
18. Poems by Katherine Tynan, Margaret Postgate, Miss G M Mitchell, May Wedderburn Cannan, Anon read by Marie Maurer
19. Poems by Cecil Spring Rice, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Robert Laurence Binyon read by David Bottomley
20. Police Guard
21. Oscar’s
At 7.30: Children’s lantern procession starting from Brockley Gate
Please join us after the walk for a chat and a drink at the Rivoli Ballrooms
350 Brockley Road, SE4 - please ask a steward for directions!
1920/30s music with Haydn Meddick plus
Roses of Picardy,Frederick by E. Weatherley, music by Haydn Wood,
Singer: Igor Outkine, Violin: Sarah Harrison

Organisation:
Idea, concept and overall organisation John McKiernan (Moonbow Jakes Events)
Community Event Organiser Moira Tait (Max Media Arts)
Artistic director Helen Schoene
Lighting Tom White
Music Director Prof Julian Jacobson
Poetry Director Isabel White
Children’s workshop Elisabetta Fumagalli, Rebecca Glover,
Gill Fraser
Advisors Colin Burgess, Laura Jane Moss, Amanda Waygood, Mr Ed, Phil Ashford, Andy Blue, Don Evens, Gwen Randall
Photographers Kirsty Leah Cole, Martin Drogosz
Thanks to Sir Steve Bullock, Mike Keogh, Sue Luxton, Derek Johnson, Kellie Blake, Shirley Bishop, Pat Codd, John Newcombe, Dick Merry, Colin Humphries, Nick Barron

Very special thanks to Albert Blackmore


Programme
Up The Line
FOR THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries
Wednesday 11th November 2009
Armistice Day 7.15- 8.26pm
After event at the Rivoli Ballrooms

A Moonbow Jakes Events production in association
with Max Media Arts and Brockley Max

Financial Support:
London Borough of Lewisham

In-kind support:
London Borough of Lewisham
London Metropolitan Police
Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries
Brockleycentral Blog
Brockley Society
Rivoli Ballrooms
Festival Folly
Crofton Park Library
Oscar’s of Ladywell
Mr Lawrence’s Wine Merchants
St. Andrew’s Church
Eclectic Productions

Special thanks to all our volunteers.

Details of children's lantern procession in Up The Line event announced

Come and make your own lantern for the Remembrance Day procession on Wednesday 11th November.



Children will be making lanterns at St Andrews Church (in the hall), Brockley Rd/Wickham Rd from 4.00-6.00pm. £2.00 per child

The procession will take place in Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery, Brockley, London SE4 2QZ between 7.15 - 8.30pm. Children should bring their parents and grandparents.
It will be an unforgettable evening for everybody with poetry, classical music, film and soundscape

For more information contact: 07790642781 or www.Brockleymax.co.uk

Up The Line – 11th November 2009

An evening event at Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries
Classical Music . Poetry . Film . Contemporary Dance . Soundscape . Children’s Procession


You are warmly invited to a short walk through Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries during darkness to experience a unique remembrance event.

A lantern lit path will take visitors past a police guard through the cemetery alongside several WWI memorials and graves where poets, contemporary dancers, a single actor and classical musicians will be performing in silhouette. A silent film and soundscape will also be playing.

A lantern lit children’s workshop will take place in the afternoon followed by a procession at 7.30pm

The event is free to all and is designed to give people of all ages an opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices made during times of war.

Families, and neighbours of all generations are encouraged to share this experience together of having a rare opportunity to walk through this most beautiful of cemeteries under moonlight and reflecting on the impact of World War One.

Where: Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries – www.foblc.org.uk
When: Wednesday 11th November 2009
Time: 7.15pm until 8.26pm (1 hour and 11 minutes)
After Event: the Rivoli Ballroom will be open for drinks from 7.30pm, 390 Brockley Road, SE4


Details: The event can be reached from either of two entrances. Brockley Road gate, SE4 is located on the junction of Brockey Road and Ivy Road. Ladywell Gate, SE13, is located on the junction of Ivy Road and Brockley Grove.
Weather: As with the trenches this event will take place regardless of weather conditions please dress for a autumn evening and wear sturdy footwear
Transport: Trains: Ladywell/Brockley/Crofton Park Stations
Buses: P4, 122, 171 and 172
DLR ; Nearest is Lewisham
Tube: Nearest New Cross Station

Disabled and infirmed: The paths are of reasonable condition and should be fine for most people. The walk will take approximately 15-20 minutes in total. For more information please email info@brockleymax.co.uk

INFORMATION: www.brockleymax.co.uk // // info@brockleymax.co.uk

To share your experience please post a comment on
http://brockleycentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/up-line-evening-remembrance-performance.html

Leaf collection workday Sunday 18th October

We had a leaf collection workday on Sunday and a great deal of leaves were collected!

RIP David Platt, FOBLC Treasurer

It is with great sadness that the FOBLC has learnt of the sudden death of David Platt.

Recently elected as our Treasurer, David was an active member of the FOBLC with a particular interest in researching the stories behind some of the war dead buried in our cemeteries. David had been currently involved in assisting in the preparations for the 'Up The Line' performance that will be taking place on 11th November in the cemeteries to commemorate the dead from World War I.

The FOBLC wishes to pass on our condolences to his family. David will be sorely missed.

Here are some links to the poignant stories uncovered by David Platt and Michael Martin:
WW1 Ace Walter Southey
St Cyprians Church
Reginald Milnes
Commander Buckle
Major Leslie Andrews

'Up The Line': Evening Performance in Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries, 11th November

This is a guest post from John McKiernan (ex of Moonbow Jakes) about 'Up the Line' an event he is organising in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries for Armistice. The event will take place on 11.11.09 from 7.30 until 8.41 (1 hour 11 minutes).

"War is ultimately about death and destruction, avoiding war is by remembering the pain and suffering associated with it rather than victory or defeat. There is probably no more a war in history that teaches us this than the Great War.

With the passing of the last witnesses to WWI there appears a need to entrench the memory of this war, more than any other, on people of today. On all sides a whole generation was lost and to avoid repeating a mistake often means a strong reminding once in a while.

Brockley Cemetery is a beautiful, almost unaltered space, with two very poignant memorials to those who died from their wounds on their return to the UK during WWI. Local men in the main, from early teens to their forties. Many, if not most local people know little or nothing of the memorials or those who are engraved on the walls, including those who perished in Deptford during the first London Blitz of WWI from the Zeppelin attacks.






















On Armistice Day, November 11th at 7.30 an event is to be held to recognise the sacrifice of these young men and others and the work of those who have tried to keep their memory alive. The intention is to create a simple experience that is sober rather than sombre yet powerful enough to lodge deep in the mind of those who attend. It is not intended as a history lesson but a history reflection that will be easy for all ages.

The event will be a lantern lit walk through the cemetery during darkness and regardless of the weather conditions. The route can be from either Brockley Road to the Ladywell gates or vice versa. The route will have poets and classical performers reciting from appropriate pieces and writings of the time. Contemporary dance will capture the essence of passing and a silent film and soundscape expressing the 'ordinariness' of how the War became during this period.

The intention is not to create an education event or an exploration of people's opinion of war; the intention is to lodge an experience in the mind that will create questions and memory. The purpose is to attract as many families and younger people as possible, to have an unusual experience in an unfamiliar environment that will bond in the psyche. In the days, months, years that follow it would be hoped the audience will occasionally remember the evening of poetry, classical music, dance and a beautiful local cemetery and by association WWI, and the impact and loss it caused.

People are encouraged to come with differing generations of family, friends and neighbours including the young and the senior. A slow walk will take approximately 25 minutes maximum you can arrive anytime up to 8.25pm. The Rivoli ballroom have kindly offered to open for people to gather to discuss and chat regarding their experience of the evening.

This event involves many individuals and organisations who have made this event a reality. Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, the Royal British Legion club in Crofton Park, many departments, officers, councillors and the Mayor of Lewisham Council, Lewisham Police who will be organising a guard at each entrance, Max Media Arts (Brockley Max), Mr Lawrence's, Rivoli, Oscars of Ladywell, South London Press and a huge array of talented artists from across London who will be performing in silhouette on the night.

Full details will be on the Brockley Max website and the event is bought to you by Moonbow Jakes events. This is a borough wide event to honour all those who died from and in Lewisham and remembering those from overseas who are also laid to rest on our behalf."

Fernando Del Marmol - Accidental Death of a Cuban Anarchist

One wouldn't expect to find a Cuban anarchist buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries but there is. Thank you to FOBLC stallwart Mike Guilfoyle for providing this fascinating account of one of the more unlikely people to be buried here.



Fernando Del Marmol shares the same 2nd August birthdate as the celebrated Decadent Poet Ernest Dowson who lies buried a few yards away in the cemetery. Born in Havana to wealthy Catalan emigrants, he later became a distinguished Professor of Mathematics having studied engineering in Spain, where he became the Director of the Polytechnic Academy of Barcelona. His powerful writings and articles on Anarchist theory (he coined the term ' anarchism without adjectives', a call for greater tolerance amongst the various divided anarchist factions) were given added force following his detention in the dreaded Montjuich Prison, Barcelona, the 'Abu Ghraib' of its day! The city was under martial law at the time. It was only due to the fact that one of his jailers happened to be an old student and recognised him that he was released.




Fearful of his life and hounded by the Authorities he took refuge in France. Where he denounced the atrocities being committed on those imprisoned there as well as supporting the insurgencies against the declining Spanish Colonial Empire in Cuba & The Philippines(soon to be annexed by the USA) after its War with Spain in 1896. He was a regular contributor to France's leading intellectual journal, la Revue Blanche. Forced to leave France via Belgium he arrived in London and lodged with the celebrated Anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Louise Michel(living at the time in nearby Bromley). He established links with the Fabian Society and went on Publicity tours with Kier Hardie and Ramsey MacDonald.

Del Marmol died aged 54 in 1915 during the Great War. His young wife and daughter aged just 8 months died in 1900 and he is buried with them in the same grave . On the Headstone are the words 'For liberty and the cause of the humbled he gave his all'. A fitting tribute to a lesser known but great Cuban Intellectual, who contributed much to the political history of organised protest & resistance to tyranny, who having sought refuge in this country lies in his final resting place in this inconspicuous corner of the cemetery.