EC Papers September 2017

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!