FROM US TO YOU: PEOPLE TOO

You’re invited to a special performance that takes an intimate and creative approach to ‘From Me to you – Love poems’ by U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey - led by our Community Producer Grayson James.

Fanthorpe and Bailey were a couple who lived together in Wotton-under-Edge until Fanthorpe died in 2009. Ursula Fanthorpe was a teacher at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, where she met Rosemarie Bailey. Both have spoken about their faith in the Quaker community, and how accepted they felt in it, and the venue for this event reflects that.

The book, a copy of which is held in Gloucestershire Archives, doesn’t indicate which poem was written by which author, calling it a kind of ‘comic modesty’. Grayson has worked with fellow creatives to connect the words with art and music to highlight the authors lived experience, the life they made together and the love they had for one another.

The event takes place in the Quaker Friends meeting house. All collaborators of the project will be at the event and there will be a Q+A/open discussion after the film has finished. There will then be an opportunity to view the artwork up close, as well as view the creator portraits and descriptions.

People Too Collaborators …

Grayson James Livingston - Project Lead - they/he

Jo Oliver - Project Assistant/Songwriter/Session Musician - she/her

Bowie Johnstone - Visual Media Lead - they/them

Lila Stanczyk-Ropiak - Visual Media Assistant - she/they/it

Jussara Nazaré - she/her/it

Olivia Lennon - Songwriter/Session Musician - she/her

Rebecca Keyte - Songwriter/Session Musician - she/her

TICKETS ARE FREE BUT LIMITED AND NEED TO BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE

Doors open at 18:40 and the event will begin at 19:00

Host or Publisher Voices Gloucester