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The Centre at St Paul’s is on the south side of the city of Cambridge, on the corner of St Paul's Road and Hills Road. It is close to the centre of Cambridge and a 10 minute walk from the rail station. Buses from the station and the city centre (Drummer Street) stop immediately outside the building.
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All at Once: The HappeningSome friends of Syd invite you to be part of, be the art of the All at Once Happening at the Centre at St Paul's at 7.30 on Tuesday, October 28th for the conversion of the bourgeoisie. Our digipoems, mangled music & old wave films will remix prolix newkicks. Our simultaneity, multineity & spontaneity will loop back to yesterday, improvise today but furrow tomorrow. We insist you keep your mobile phones on, your children badly behaved and your antennae tuned to the chance of beauty. It’s FREE to get in... Like life.
You can find out more about the happening people in Those Who Knew.
In order to comply with our agreement with PayPal, all financial transactions are managed through Escape Artists main website. When you book online you will be redirected to www.escapeartists.co.uk; the website will open in a new window. Please use this form if you experience any problems with your online booking. Happenings… Poetry and the Pink FloydHappenings coincided with the burgeoning Beat movement in the US. Broadly speaking, they were events intended as pieces of pure performance art that brought together poets, musicians, dancers and visual artists, heavily imbued with the creative spontaneity and experimentalism that characterised the birth of the 1960s. Adopted in Britain by contributors to New Departures, a beat journal established by Michael Horovitz whilst he was still a student; the British Happening had its greatest moment at the now legendary International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965. Ginsberg and Burroughs shared the stage with British poets such as Horovitz, some 7000 people made it Happen. Peter Whitehead, who had been instrumental in exhibiting Syd Barrett and Antony Stern’s artwork in the early 60s in Cambridge, turned it into a film. Just under 2 years later its musical counterpart took place, a wild psychedelic jamboree that brought London’s Underground scene Overground to Alexandra Palace. Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd headed the bill at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream on April 29, 1967, and Whitehead documented the affair once more as part of the cult classic Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. Back in Cambridge, when they were all only 18 or 19, Nigel Lesmoir Gordon, Andrew Rawlinson and William Pryor had organised their first humble happening in the Cambridge Union Cellars in 1964. 2008 will see that curious and singular artistic anarchy revived once more.
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