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Our Songs Made History
Quorn Grange, Sunday 3rd June 2018
The Devil doesn’t always have the best songs!
Songs have traditionally brought us together, created a basis for
solidarity, spread the news and communicated the politics of the
Labour Movement.
The GFTU has produced a double CD of songs called Voice and Vision:
Songs of Resistance, Democracy and Peace. Using this as a starting
point and engaging some of the great contemporary singers of these
songs this day-school will provide a fascinating, and fun, insight into our
musical heritage of song and the chance to hear great music, kick back
your heels, and dance.
100 Years in 100 Minutes
Quorn Grange, Sunday 10th June 2018
History doesn’t have to be long-winded or dry.
This day-school is intended as a whistle stop tour through a century of our
history – of strikes, victories, the creation of the modern Labour Movement
and the establishment of the Welfare State – told in a riveting, often
humorous, and always moving medley of songs, stories and quotations.
Our Poetry
Quorn Grange, Sunday 17th June 2018
Sidney, Milton, Marvell, Shelley, Blake and Auden:
the Left has always had the best poets.
This day-school is to re-connect with those voices,
to re-assert the radical edge of their words, and to
discover new names, and forms, drawn from across
the globe that are at the forefront of today’s poetics.
Prepare to be challenged, inspired and entertained!