Live Stream Encounter from Victoria, BC.
Saturday Night 24 May:
Stephen Jenkinson and painter Gary Dillon
Doors open at 6:30pm PT
Event 7-9pm PT
(10pm-12am ET, 3-5am BST (25 May), 12-2pm AET (25 May)
Sunday Morning 25 May:
Stephen Jenkinson and poet April Tierney
Doors open at 10am PT
Event 10:30-12:30pm PT
(1:30-3:30pm ET, 6:30-8:30pm BT, 3:30-5:30am AET (26 May)
One of the Poems Stephen has recommended:
W.B. Yeats, Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
