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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-poetry-reading-
 100-years-of-the-waste-land/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Poetry Reading: 100 Years of th
 e Waste Land
DESCRIPTION:POETRY READING: 100 YEARS OF THE WASTE LAND\n17 NOVEMBER - 17 N
 OVEMBER 2022\nTHURS 17 NOV / 4.30–8PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY\nREGISTER HERE\
 n(FREE TO DROP IN THROUGHOUT THE EVENING)\n\n\n\n\n\nMy nerves are bad ton
 ight. Yes\, bad. Stay with me.\n\nSpeak to me. Why do you never speak. Spe
 ak.\n\nWhat are you thinking of? What thinking? What?\n\nI never know what
  you are thinking. Think.\n\nCome and join us in a collective reading of T
 .S.Eliot’s The Waste Land. We also welcome musicians who want to play a 
 piece in celebration or response to the poem.\n\nOpen Eye Gallery is activ
 ely rethinking what a gallery can be. We invite you to get involved in a c
 elebration of voices.\n\nCome and join us on 17 November to take part in a
  shared reading of The Waste Land or to read your own poem that is inspire
 d by T.S.Eliot’s modernist masterpiece.\n\nAre you a reader of poetry?\n
 \nDo you like to read aloud?\n\nAre you part of a community group that wou
 ld like to celebrate this poem together?\n\nIt is 100 years since this sem
 inal work was published. T.S.Eliot’s long poem mixes voices\, texts and 
 reflects on themes of language\, post-war alienation\, death\, and loss.\n
 \nTo read the poem follow this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe
 ms/47311/the-waste-land\n\nTo hear the poem being read by Alec Guinness fo
 llow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw\n\nThe celebr
 ation will open with readings of poems inspired by The Waste Land as well 
 as music. We will also share a digital display of photography that respond
 s to its themes and ideas.\n\nWendy Smith\, electroacoustic composer\, wil
 l be making a field recording of The Waste Land rehearsal and event for po
 ssible future use in composition or new collaborative work.\n\nTo book a r
 eading slot\, and for more information about how you can get involved\, co
 ntact Pauline Rowe: pauline@openeye.org.uk\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage credit: Áin
 e Rowe\n
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LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
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