Thank you for 'Up The Line"

Over 450 came to see the beautiful and moving 'Up The Line' event to mark Armistice Day. The feedback received has been incredible and organiser Johm McKiernan enthused "we managed to create an amazing evening that achieved its goal of encouraging people to consider the sacrifice and suffering of World War One." He went on to say "I would like to pay tribute to all the people who worked so hard during the lead up to the day and on the day, sometimes in terrible weather, to make this happen and the many volunteers who stood, lifted, printed, blogged and much more to make the event happen." You can more about the event in an interview with Johm McKiernan on Brockley Central

For a flavour of this remarkable night check out this video put together by the Propaganda Radio Show. The poetry used in this montage is: Joseph Seamen Cotter's 'Sonet to Negro Soldier' read by Jazzman John An extract from AP Herbert's 'The German Graves read by Joe Duggan Robert Frost's 'A Soldier' read by Jazzman John Extracts from John McRae's 'In Flanders Field read by Heather Taylor AP Herbert's 'Dead Mule Tree' read by Jazzman John


Photos at top and below from the night courtesy of FOBLC stallward Bob Clark. There are also more photos from the event on Flickr

Up The Line Programme

We look forward to welcoming you all from 7:00 pm this Thursday 11/11/10

Up The Line Poster

'Up The Line' Event confirmed' for 11th November

The FOBLC is delighted to have received confirmation from the organisers that following on from the hugely successful 2009 event there will be a bigger and more beautiful evening performance of ‘Up The Line’ in Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery, two weeks tonight, 11.11.10 from 7pm

Poets, musicians, dancers, soundscape and film will begin their performance at the sound of a single Scottish piper along a one and half kilometre path running through the cemetery with the children’s lantern procession beginning at 7.30pm.

Monuments to those who were injured during the conflict and subsequently passed away in Lewisham Hospital and those killed in Deptford by the Zeppelin attacks will be lit by light artist Tom White using hydrogen fuel cells, dispensing with the need for diesel generators and reducing our CO2 emissions by 70% on 2009.

We do hope you can make it along to this free unique event with entry anytime from 7pm until 8.20pm. The wheelchair and pram accessible path will take between 55-70 minutes to walk so please dress appropriately, wear sturdy shoes and bring a torch.

Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery
Enter from junction of Brockley Road and Ivy Road, SE4 2QY
Ivy Road will be CLOSED to traffic from 4pm
Exit Ladywell Gate SE13 7HY
Thursday 11th November 2010
Arrive anytime between 7.00pm – 8.20pm (last entry)
Lantern Procession by children 7.30pm
Post Event Reflection from 7.30pm
Admission Free


Transport:
Trains/Overground Stations: Brockley 6min // Crofton Park 4min // Ladywell 15min
Buses: P4, 122, 171, 172
Parking limited


Get involved and information email: remembrance@platform-7.com

Produced by
Platform-7 and Moonbow Events, in association with London Borough of Lewisham and the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery with support from the Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams in Ladywell and Crofton Park

Up The Line event announced for 2010

We're delighted that following on from the massively successful 'Up The Line' event last year, organiser John McKiernan has announced that it will hopefully happen again this year. The event will take place in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries on 11th November 2010 – Thursday 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

The unique remembrance event will see visitors walk along a lantern lit path 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. There will be 28 performers in all, including all those from last year who will be back again this year. An exciting development is that the event is looking to use green technology that will be both quieter and more fuele efficient. John McKiernan says 'We are much closer today towards having fuel cell technology meaning we may be able to run the event without the need for a generator at all.' Backing has been secured from Lewisham council but the event still depends on Arts Council funding which will be confirmed next month.

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