Featuring Robin Grey and Tim Laycock
Telling the history of land and food in Britain is always a multi-stranded narrative. On one side we have the history of enclosure, privatisation and the dispossession of land based communities; on the other we have the vibrant histories of struggle and resistance that emerged when people rose up and confronted the loss of their lands, cultures and ways of life.
These multiple histories go largely undocumented in the literature of the times, often expressed simply as a hanging here and an uprising there, yet in the music and stories of the people they take on a different life.
‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects The Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with the road protests and Occupy via the enclosures and Highland Clearances, bringing a compelling narrative to the radical people’s history of Britain through folk songs, stories and poems.
Part TED talk, part history lecture, part folk club sing-a-long, part poetry slam, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations.
BRIDPORT: Women’s Institute Hall
WED 12TH MAR, 2014 Doors at 6.45pm/event starts at 7.15pm
With local food from Peasant Evolution Producers’ Co-operative and craft beer from Gyle 59.
Tickets are £10/Adults and £5/Under-16s (who must be accompanied) and available from Red Brick Cafe, Fruits of the Earth and Bridport Music.
They are also online here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/261010
http://threeacresandacow.co.uk/
