STILL ANGRY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
THEWORD07:PEACE
August 24th - August 27th 2007

Four of Britain’s most famous troubadours of the peace movement are to perform together again for the first time in almost half a century. Shadow Laureate ADRIAN MITCHELL, founder of the Poetry Olympics MICHAEL HOROVITZ, veteran playwright BERNARD KOPS and Cream supergroup collaborator PETE BROWN will reunite for a four-day festival, THEWORD07:PEACE at Scotland’s most exciting new arts centre, The Bakehouse, in the heart of the beautiful Galloway town of Gatehouse of Fleet.

“To have these four performing together again will be a truly moving historical event,” says Chrys Salt, artistic director of the Bakehouse. It was back in the 1960s that all four wrote for the seminal Poems for Disarmament pamphlet, which sold on the early Aldermaston Marches. Copies have now become a collector’s item, selling expensively on e-bay. As part of THEWORD07:PEACE, The Bakehouse is publishing a new pamphlet of poems in which their abiding concern for peace is expressed in the context of a much changed but still warring world.

‘We hope to have poems about peace in every window in the High Street’ says John Hudson, Editor of Markings one of the longest running literary magazines in Scotland, ‘we have already received some wonderful work from some of Scotland’s leading poets. Peace and reconciliation seem to be themes that touch and inspire everybody.’

It is hoped that THE WORD will become an annual event – addressing a different theme of contemporary relevance each year.

‘Art is the most powerful tool for changing hearts and minds’ said Chrys Salt, ‘and we hope THEWORD will be the place where such things can happen’

The full programme for the weekend is available by clicking here.