Taking a Fresh Perspective on Things June 8, 2009
As time drifts on it can dawn on you that you just no longer live a culturally fulfilled life as you did when you were younger. You wake up to the noisy roadworks outside your window, before stumbling to work, maybe read a vacuous free paper then straight into the day’s tasks. These days can pass with metamorphic tendencies to turn into years. To break up the cycle and offer something up that deserves your intellectual engagement would be to attend free music concerts at King’s Place. It’s a fantastic new venue which plays host to a wide range of arts.
On Sundays there is a spoken word event. These weekly gatherings entail a large group of like minded folk getting together to discuss profoundly current affairs, prose or selected topics in a way that has much more substance than you would perhaps find if such topics took place on question time.
Although you might think you have a mundane life of getting to work, cooking a meal and then retiring to bed to retire many years later, even this type of life experience can reveal elements of beauty when analysed. Whether it be something as ordinary as sitting in a café looking out the window or even getting the stains out of your favourite shirt after a night out. It is these little snippets of everyday life that are looked into.
It also welcomes anyone from the long established poets who even thinks of borings tasks such as washing up in elaborate prose; to the local postman that must do a great deal of contemplation on their daily rounds. After a few weeks of going you’ll find yourself easily get more involved in conversations around topics and participating at a greater level each time.
The genres of topic covered range from anything that has ever been talked on this planet, or anything that has been put down in ink. It can really broaden your horizons and will definitely be a refreshing experience. You may have turned your nose up at such an evening in the past, all I can say is, give it a try and I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised.
The beginning of the week is a brilliant time to discuss topics in depth. Your brain is still not fully awake from the weekends relaxation, so it’s nice to do something a bit more challenging. These sessions will make you aware how relaxing listening to prose or speaking prose actually is.
