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Tuesday 27 November 2018
From myGwork. raising money for THT - World Aids Day
Thursday 22 November 2018
2018 is drawing to a close, all best wishes!
I get people to reconnect sometimes even after a break of five years and we take it from there as it was yesterday. Life is like that sometimes.
This year started with some good news, two of my nieces announced they were pregnant and some bad news, some friends died, other friends celebrated in style their significant birthdays through the year.
Travelling to and fro Belgium, Wales and London with the little escapes to ski in Les Gets and the sea in Thassos, GPN and The Whitefriars Club continue to thrive and I am delighted to have welcomed many people and speakers to both of them.
Lady Colin Campbell attended the first GPN of the year and Jerry Hayes the first Whitefriars Dinner both at the Savile Club. I visited the Supreme Court and attended the Civic Luncheon in the Crypt of the Guildhall and dined in the Judge's Chambers at the Old Bayley with the Sherif of London with the Bishopsgate Ward Club.
Other speakers at the Whitefriars Club were The Rt Rev and Rt Hon the Lord Chartres KCVO ChStJ PC FSA at the Palace of Westminster in February to celebrate its 150th anniversary, Geoffrey Mub, Dele Ogun, Jeff Anderson, Lord Lisvane and A.N. Wilson.
GPN celebrated diversity and inclusion at the House of Lords in July with The Lord Scriven of Hunters Bar who subsequently became our Patron. Other speakers were Abel Rubinstein, the director, Dan de la Motte who took us around Soho, Gary Henshaw, Robert S J Lucas when we went to see his musical at "The Other Palace" and Niall Cunniffe.
I attended a fundraising dinner at the The Belgian Ambassador Residence for the Torch Kindling Ceremony who just happened this November, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the end of the first World War, so called the Great War but really there is nothing great about a war, it is just awful to see what humanity can let itself so down, let's never forget!
Filming wise, I was fortunate to work with Renee Zelwegger who I think will land an oscar for her rendition of this film, it is sadly to early to let you know what I have been up to with the other films as they are not out yet but look at your screens big and small for some adverts and wonderful films that I was delighted to be in. This year you probably seen me already in Vanity Fair, Ready Player One, The Crown, Film Stars don't die in Liverpool, The Children Act, Darkest Hour, Johnny English and Fantastic Beasts. I also did my first narration for a French Film in May
Lunches and dinner were spent in the usual haunts of the Savile, Turf, Civil Service, Boodle and National Liberal Club were we seen this year's start on the terrace and there were parties also at The Inner Temple and the Chelsea Arts Club.
Two of my nieces celebrate their 40th birthday, one in January, yet the party was in May, and the other in December, guess the party is next year.
I worn for the first time a kilt for the wedding celebration at the House of Lords of Roland and David and will again for Burns Night next year.
There is probably too much to remember and forgive me if I do, there are much more that I attended, some that I cannot talk about but it has been a very enjoyable year surrounded by the love and friendship of family and friends.
I very much look forward to seeing you again soon and wish you and yours all the very best for Hanukkah, Saturnalia, Christmas and the New Years.
Love, Peace and Light to you all.
Yours truly,
Jean-François.
Special £10 Tickets Offers for 3 Shows at Stratford East
Good Morning,
I hope you are all well.
I've just been allocated £10 tickets for three shows at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
The three shows are The Unreturning, Sleeping Beauty and Equus (please see e-flyer below)
These £10 tickets are available on the following dates and times below.
The Unreturning
Thu 17 Jan, 7.30pm
Sat 19 Jan, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sat 26 Jan, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sat 02 Feb, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sat 19 Jan, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sat 26 Jan, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sat 02 Feb, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
When booking use promocode FRANTIC 10
Sleeping Beauty
Mon 31 Dec, 7pm
Wed 02 Jan, 7pm
Thu 03 Jan, 2pm and 7pm
Fri 04 Jan, 7pm
Wed 02 Jan, 7pm
Thu 03 Jan, 2pm and 7pm
Fri 04 Jan, 7pm
When booking use promocode PANTO 10
Equus
Fri 15 Feb, 7.30pm
Sat 16 Feb, 7.30pm
Mon 18 Feb, 7.30pm
Tue 19 Feb, 7.30pm
Wed 20 Feb, 7.30pm
Sat 16 Feb, 7.30pm
Mon 18 Feb, 7.30pm
Tue 19 Feb, 7.30pm
Wed 20 Feb, 7.30pm
When booking use promocode EQUUS 10
To book the offers on all three shows please call the Box Office on 0208 534 0310 or go online and use the promocode for each show.
Please help spread the word and pass this information on to staff and members so that they can take up on these offers.
Thanks for your support.
Best
Bid Mosaku
Audience Development
07875 092469
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Coming up at Stratford East
The Wolves 24 Oct - 17 Nov 2018
Sleeping Beauty 01 Dec 2018 - 12 Jan 2019
The Unreturning - 16 Jan - 02 Feb 2019
Equus - 15 Feb - 23 Mar 2019
Noughts & Crosses - 24 Apr - 05 May 2019
King Hedley II - 17 May - 15 Jun 2019
www.stratfordeast.com
Box Office: 020 8534 0310
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The Wolves 24 Oct - 17 Nov 2018
Sleeping Beauty 01 Dec 2018 - 12 Jan 2019
The Unreturning - 16 Jan - 02 Feb 2019
Equus - 15 Feb - 23 Mar 2019
Noughts & Crosses - 24 Apr - 05 May 2019
King Hedley II - 17 May - 15 Jun 2019
www.stratfordeast.com
Box Office: 020 8534 0310
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Pioneer Theatres Limited - Registered Office: Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatre Square, London E15 1BN - Registered Number: 556251; VAT Number: 248 9343 27; Charity Number: 233801
This communication contains information that is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s). please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, by replying to this e-mail inserting the word "miss-directed" in the subject line, then destroy any copies of it.
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Wednesday 21 November 2018
Thank you for coming yesterday
Monday 12 November 2018
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Today, 11th November, is Remembrance Day - a memorial day observed in the UK and many other countries.
It’s a tradition that began at the end of the First World War, a moment to remember the men and women who had died in battle as hostilities finally ended on 11th November 1918 - the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.
The symbol of Remembrance Day is the poppy - the flower that bloomed across the battlefields of Flanders, their brilliant red a powerful reminder of the blood that had been spilled.
War is horrific, but the war to end all wars - as WWI was described at the time - didn’t end war. War seems to be a default setting that we somehow constantly return to, an intrinsic part of human nature that we deplore but somehow can never evolve beyond.Remembrance Day is also a moment to reflect on the devastation caused by war, to reflect on the men and women whose lives have been cut short because they followed orders. It’s also a time to think about the LGBTQ people who have served in military struggles through the ages - to try and understand what their experience might have been like.
In England, the First World War came at a time soon after homosexual contact of any kind had been outlawed - the penal code was amended to include this prohibition in 1885. It’s been reported that during the First World War, 22 officers and 270 enlisted men from the British army were court-marshalled for homosexuality.
The situation in France was slightly different. The revolution in France had resulted in the repeal of a number of laws which effectively meant that homosexuality was not illegal. However, sexual encounters between men were still widely viewed as immoral.
Adding a bit of drama to the picture is what was happening in Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm II’s cabinet and entourage was caught up in a series of court-martials and libel trials from 1907–1909 in what is now described at the Eulenburg affair. Homosexuality was illegal in Germany at that time. Journalist Maximillian Harden made an accusation of homosexual conduct between Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg-Hertefeld, and General Kuno, Graf von Moltke. The publicity surrounding the accusations included the emergence of the phrase Liebenberg Round Table to describe the circle of gay men that apparently surrounded the Kaiser. While the accusations may have initially been politically motivated, the fall-out saw numerous trials, resignations, arrests, accusations, and blackmail. It ended the career and influence of the moderate Eulenburg - some commentators point to this as being a contributing factor to the outbreak of World War I.
War often inspires great writing, and some of the most powerful work to emerge from World War I came from the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen - both widely recognised as gay men.
Sassoon enlisted in 1914 and served on the Western Front. While studying at Cambridge, Sassoon had had a relationship with David Cuthbert Thomas - Thomas was shot and killed in 1916. Sassoon wrote two poems in his memory - A Letter Home, and The Last Meeting.
I called him, once; then listened: nothing moved:
Only my thumping heart beat out of time.
Whispering his name, I groped from room to room.
Quite empty was that house; it could not hold
His human ghost, remembered in the love That strove in vain to be companioned still.
Only my thumping heart beat out of time.
Whispering his name, I groped from room to room.
Quite empty was that house; it could not hold
His human ghost, remembered in the love That strove in vain to be companioned still.
Sassoon met Owen in 1917, when they were both at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland. Owen had enlisted in 1915. Owen’s celebrated work, Anthem for Doomed Youth, is a result of the time spent with Sassoon at Craiglockhart.
Owen died in action in 1918 in northern France. Sassoon survived the war, later writing:
W’s death was an unhealed wound, and the ache of it has been with me ever since. I wanted him back - not his poems.
But poems and memories are all that we have to celebrate Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Philipp Eulenburg, and the millions of other men and women who have lost their lives in war.
As Wilfred Owen wrote in 1918, in the preface of a collection of poems that he hoped to publish:
My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.
Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn.
The Poetry is in the pity.
Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn.
Thursday 8 November 2018
Scott and the Runaway Sock by Niall Cunniffe
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from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Before turning to children’s books, he made cartoons and won a Young Filmmaker of the Year award (Fresh Film Festival 2011) and a special award from Brown Bag Studios (Peter Rabbit, The Octonauts) for “inventive talent.” Editor for a small publisher by day, Scott and the Runaway Sock is his first book for children.
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Tuesday 6 November 2018
Read What the Global Swing to the Right Means For the LGBT+ Community/Jobs, News & Events
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