Torriano Meeting House
A meeting place for the arts and the community
St Bride’s Day Feast
Torriano folk! Come and celebrate the beginning of Spring and the patron saint of poetry with a feast! Bring a dish of food, some drink and a poem to share.
Torriano Poetry this Sunday
26th January
Matthew Caley, Owen Gallagher and Wendy Young introduced by Pauline Sewards
7.30. £5/£4 according to pocket.
A Sunday reading in the late 1980s
Sunday 15th 7.30pm. Torriano Poetry. Gboyega Odubanjo and Joe Carrick Varty introduced by Lisa Kelly
A Sunday reading in the late 1980s
Ágnes Hay: Dancing letters
Exhibition of creative lettering, all December and January.
A Torriano benefit
Blue Blouse
Sat 14 Dec 7.30 for 8pm
The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor present Blue Blouse . A performance inspired by 1920s Soviet agitprop. With seasonal jollity and refreshments. Collection: lots of money in the hat please!
The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза) theatre troupe were an influential agitprop theatre collective in the Soviet Union, created by Boris Yuzhanin under the auspices of the Moscow Institute of Journalism. They were an important theatre movement, now long forgotten. They thrived between 1923 and 1927, when they merged with the Workers Youth Theatre.
At the time of their disappearance the Blue Blouse movement had 5,000 companies with more than 100,000 members across the Soviet Union.
