Now then, Now then.

If truth be told, not all bogey men wear masks,
watching the news, it's become apparent,
that there have been demons, who have lived among us,
who have been concealed, because of compliance, lies and denial.
Who in the not so distant past, caroused in dark corridors of power,
basked in limelights glare,sheltered by royalty, primeministers, the B.B.C,
now routinely condemned, by people pure as white.
It seems, there is no glory in the past,ugly skeletons, hidden in dark closets,
the hollow presence of yesterday,that stalked our streets,
where cobwebs grew in crawling terror,the air filled now with the weight of anger.
Fury reveals the harshest truth,deceit buried in conceit,
the guilty name, fixed forever in frozen emptiness.
Nothing of value remains, long may their be disdain,
and his vacuous memory, be always linked with scum.

Gaza/Blaenannnerch

I am  looking forward to this new show, which is coming to my home town soon, after  playing at the Millenium Centre, London, Aberystwyth and Caernarfon. Exploring issues that are very close to my heart. Up the road from me lies the village of Blaenannerch, which is situated 3 miles from the coastal village of Aberporth on the West Wales Heritage Coastline. Formerly situated here was RAF Station Aberporth, which up until 1990 was used as a missile range that stretched out for some miles into Cardigan Bay. Since the RAF left, the camp at Blaennanerch ( now rebranded as ParcAberporth, and owned by the Welsh Assembly Government) has been used as an operational test and evaluation centre for unmanned aerial vehicles - otherwise known as drones.
My local Amnesty International group, along with Peace activists and many locals have consistently campaigned against the drones based up the road from me, condemning Drones as  for being  used as remote-controlled killing machines, that break international and humanitarian laws that foster a video game mentality in warfare, that we see as immoral and unethical. The constant noise emitted from the drones is said to be unbearable..
In what will undoubtedly be a powerful and thought provoking dance theatre, Gaza/Blaennanaerch   acclaimed contemporary dance  artist Eddie Ladd and theatre director Judith Roberts,  have used the drones at Aberporth/Blaennaerch,  as a starting point and their work looks at the links between Wales, Israel and Palestine, unearthing a series of little known connections between the two. Many of the drones, which are tested at ParcAberporth, that fly over the village of Blaennannerch, are designed in Israel and designed in conjunction with Israeli Aerospace Industries.This performance will explore the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  from a fresh perspective, whilst also tackling Wales's struggle with nationality and identity. Eddie Ladd herself is local to this area, having herself been bought up on a farm near Blaennanaerch.
The musical backdrop will be provided by Philip Glass's haunting String Quartet No 5,  performed by The Smith Quartet, who have been at the forefront of the world's contemporary music scene for over 20 years.

at Small World Theatre Cardigan/Aberteifi
31 Oct & 1 Nov
For booking and more infomation

http://www.whatevertheweatherwales.co.uk/en/events/Gaza-Blaenannerch.html

Theatre Byd Bychan
Small World Theatre
Tel No
01239615952

Links to earlier posts that touch on this subject

http://teifidancer-teifidancer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/no-to-drones-at-aberporth-or-anywhere.html

http://teifidancer-teifidancer.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/parc-aberporth-links-with-israel.html

Yesterday U.N Independent expert has called for boycott of businesses profiteering from Israeli Settlements, Elbit Systems company involved in ParcAberprth is one of the companies named.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43376&Cr=palestin&Cr1=

ENGLISH DISCO LOVERS (EDL) DISCO STATEMENT

https://www.facebook.com#!/englishdiscolovers

Children from Palestine share their dreams.

Exile ( After visiting Londinium )

City full of lost things
the gutter full of stars
nothing thrown away
imagination ploughed,
draws magnets on wild winds
beyond every headline
and mornings spin
trains take people
on journeys of discovery
some will never see.

All forms here
all divisions
stillness lingers
somewhere out of reach
old is the echoe
a prism with no ending
used people, some shut out
forever,between the dark places
and the streets paved with pain.

Lovers reach out
exhale,float on dreams
in a city built,on millions of breaths
the air seems to run faster
here in the heart of a city
running on filters of memory and survival.
the evening sleeps with its eyes open
gilded mirrors showing us the long distance home.

Ed Miliband booed for promising cuts to TUC anti-cuts march - 20th October..

Actually missed this, I was running up and down Oxford Sreet. But how dare he? He came to a huge grass roots march against austerity, where many of the people in attendance, had come from all corners of Britain, with anger in their hearts, and valid rasons for fighting back. What they got from the leader of the Labour Party , was fancy hand gestures, dressed up. with some whimpered emotion.He tried to pretend with empty rhetoric that he was  not being the same as the Tories, but that's exactly .how it came across.
An excellent advert in not voting Labour. Here was a man that was declaring to the country too his lack of principle, and the Party that he represents , it simpy has no value anymore.

A Future That Works Won't Have Workfare - Close Down the Workfare Exploiters on October 20th

Down in London  for a long weekend break, mainly going for the above, to state my opposition to this  governments ideological driven programme of austerity,
http://afuturethatworks.org/ the following has caught my eye, and I think I might take a look.
After the main TUC demonstration will join http://www.boycottworkfare.org/ in their attempt to shut down the workfare profiteers exploiting the unemployed.
They will be meeting at 2.30pm, Oxford Circus, Saturday 20th October

will join http://www.boycottworkfare.org/ after the TUC

Thanks once again to the following for invaluable infomation,

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/