Wednesday 27 May 2009

Celebrating Postman's Park


As part of its Watts in the City programme, the Watts Gallery has organised an event in Postman's Park next Wednesday which looks well worth a visit. The Memorial itself has been freshened up - see the newly legible writing in the picture above - and an interpretative plaque will be unveiled. (It's already in situ and is a lovely match for the memorial plaques themselves.)

The full programme for the afternoon of Wednesday 3 June (updated, and now online here) includes:

12 noon: welcome

12.15: Talk on GF Watts by Mark Bills, Curator of the Watts Gallery

12.30: Talk on heroes by John Price, author of Postman's Park: GF Watts' Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

1pm: The Actors' Temple
present Postman's Park

1.30: Unveiling of the new plaque

2.00: Celebration tea

2.30: The Actors' Temple present Postman's Park

3.15: Performance of Heroes of Ev'ry Day Life - the first in 100 years. This song about the heroes by George Horncastle and Felix McGlennon will be performed by baritone Alexander Knox.

3.30: Performance of extracts from Daniel Hit by a Train by Lone Twin Theatre

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