Remembrance Sunday online event
Date: Sunday, 8 November, 2020, 10:30 - 11:10 am GMT
Location: Online
Abney Park Trust has gathered together musicians and artists from across Hackney to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. On this day we remember and honour those who lost their lives in conflicts across the globe, some of whom are memorialised in Abney Park Cemetery.
Poetry readings and music have been especially recorded for this occasion and combined with footage from the commemorative event we held in Abney Park in 2018.
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Full list of contributors
Introductions and poetry read by Penny DimondHow will I ever be simple again by Richard Thompson performed by The Volunteers. A song that reflects on the emotional and visceral impact of war on the civilian and the soldier.
The Journey by Martina Schwarz performed by Martina and Christopher Allan. Written for Paul Meyer’s documentary film ‘Conspirators’ in 2006 about the female combatants in the Polish national uprising against the Germans in 1944.
Castles in the Sand written and performed by Christopher Allan in memory of his poet friend Phil Michaels who wrote the following ‘I and you and we will be polished by the sea, our roughs and smooths to live within and make the waves. Till we become the sand’.\
Bow and Bellows perform both Hora Femeilor (Romanian) and Oj Livado, a Serbian love song.Lo Yisa Goy, a Hebrew song performed by Hackney Song Works, Wing It Singers and friends. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.
The Last Post performed by Colin FisherThousands of Leaves music by Jocelyn Pook with the words of Alice Oswald. Performed by the voices of Melanie Pappenheim, Voya Zivkovic and Tanja Tzarovska, and Jocelyn on Viola and keyboard. Written for the Brink production Memorial performed as part of the centennial commemoration of the Armistice.
Curated by Alison Glynn and Martina Schwartz
Filming and Editing by Zachariah Young
Thanks to all who participated, helped and supported and to Liz Parr for championing the event.