Footballers wanted for: Community fun on Peckham Rye, Mar 1st (11am-1pm)

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Hello,

Artist Sarah Turner is inviting you to take part in a filmed community event on Sunday 1st March in Peckham Rye for her documentary feature film ?Public House?, which was inspired by and centres around the Ivy House pub on Stuart Rd, and its recent rescue by the local community.

The event will see the creative energy from within the Ivy House flow out on to the streets to nearby Peckham Rye common, where we will re-imagine William Blake?s vision of angels through poetry, dance and movement.

- What is actually happening? What will I be doing?

Sarah is asking the local community to gather together en masse at The Ivy House at 11 am on Sunday 1st March, where we'll be providing complementary refreshments (tea, coffee, snacks - probably something like muffins). We will emerge from the building onto the streets, walking together as a group for half a mile to Peckham Rye common.

Once on the Rye, choreographer Wendy Steatham (her work includes the Olympics Opening ceremony) will guide us all through a simple movement that features in her swing dance classes. We?ll perform these steps together in synchronisation.

We will then light candles in jars, reciting a specially commissioned poem written by Jane Yeh (a 2014 ?Next Generation poet?), and wave little pocket mirrors to reflect light towards the cameras and into the trees.

The event will finish off with chot drinks and snacks at Caf? on the Rye.

The whole thing should take around two hours, and there is plenty more information here:

http://public-house-mass-assembly.eventbrite.co.uk/

Which is also our sign up page where you can let us know you're coming (which would be really helpful with planning catering numbers!), but if you have any questions, please do get in touch here or on thepublichousefilm AT gmail DOT com. We're also on Facebook, Twitter and have our own site, which has more info about the project, our poet, the filmmaker, and some of the people who have already participated in other stages.

twitter.com/publichousefilm

facebook.com/thepublichousefilm

thepublichousefilm.wix.com/home

We're keen to get this information out to as many people as possible, so that no one misses the chance to have some fun on the Rye, so please feel free to share this with anyone you think might be interested!

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Just a quick update to say that we will be hosting:

an informational meeting this coming

Wednesday 18th Feb at 7.30pm in the Ivy House

for group and community leaders, where we will be answering questions, giving out practical details, coordinating groups, that sort of thing. We'd love to see lots of you there!

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Exciting news! Would you like to play in a football match on the Rye this Sunday?

Peckham Rye FC would like to play a match against the Ivy House team this coming Sunday, Mar 1st, c.10.30am. But the Ivy House team is missing a few players, so they're putting the call out for extras. No worries about experience as enthusiasm is much more important - it's a friendly match, so open to all levels of ability, and a perfect time to dust off those old boots in the garage and stretch your legs on the Rye!

If you want to play, email us at [email protected] and we'll put you in touch with the team :-)