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30th April, 2008 - CHAPLAINCY CENTRE MEMORIAL
Have received a
call from student support services, Terry Gray (?) with regards to having a memorial held at the Chaplaincy Center on Campus,
as a day event. There will be a meeting on Thursday 7th May that I will be attending to discuss possibilities surrounding
this event, which will probably be a separate thing that people can attend. I will keep everyone updated with this and with
the actual memorial night we are organizing.
With regards to the date of our memorial, we are looking at the end of
the month (May). We will try our best to give everyone enough time to organize a trip up here. Map to be added. - Anna -
2nd
May, 2008 - PICTURES
Will be added pictures in the gallery but I have been having problems down loading pictures. But
again this is all in transition, so watch this space. - Anna -
4th May, 2008 -
PROPOSED DATE FOR THE EVENT
We are currently
working towards having the memorial poetry evening on Saturday 31st May 2008. Nothing has been booked or anything and Anna
is planning to talk to the Gregson (proposed venue) sometime soon. This date may change, but this is the current idea.
7th May, 2008 GREGSON UPDATE
Yes thats right the date for the memorial is initially the 31st, in the
Olive Bar upstairs but its not as well equipted as the hall downstairs so I am waiting to talk to a Roger Moorhouse.
~ The Big Hall ~
Mon - Thurs £7.50 an hour OR £25.00 for the whole
evening - with bar.
Fri-Sat £100.00 with lights + use of PA - for
anything complicated then we need to organize our own mixing decks.
~ The Olive Bar ~
£15 per night, no bar.
AS A CHARITY EVENT
There is also the prospect of having charity organization MIND involved an idea thought of by Frankie. If the night is based on a fundraiser then the venue can be used for free. This is
to confirned by Rodger with any luck.
TECH PEOPLE NEEDED
If anyone can put their hand to technical goings on then please
could you let use know via the comments page or one of us, on the contacts page.
14th May 2008 - CHAPLAINCY CENTRE MEMORIAL
The date and time
has been confirmed for the memorial service due to take place in the Chaplaincy Centre on campus for Ed. It will be on Thursday
22nd May (next week) at 1.15pm
This event is for anyone and everyone wishing to celebrate his life and say goodbye.
Ed's family will be attending as well. I will be doing a reading and I have been asked to convey the message that anyone else
wishing to make a contribution is very welcome to do so. If you would like to do a reading or make any other kind of contribution
to the service, drop me a line and I'll send you the email address of the person organising it.
Once again, this is
a completely separate event to the fundraiser poetry evening but it is still open to anyone and everyone wishing to attend.
I hope to see you all there.
Jex
16th May, 2008 - GREGSON OLIVE BAR CONFIRMED
Received a phone call from Rodger Moorhouse confirming to me that
the 31st can go ahead. Will return his call on monday when i have a rough idea of the things that we need.
Please, please if anyone has anything to contribute then let us know
via the comments page so we can draw up a program of proceedings.
CHAPLAINCY CENTRE MEMORIAL
I want to thank Jex for updating us with the info, again please let us
know if you can make it and if there is anything you want to contribute by Monday, as the organizers and academics want to
know everything in time for Thursday. - Anna -
18th May, 2008 - ALTERNATIVE CONTACT DETAILS FOR THURS CHAPLAINCY MEMORIAL
Ok if anyone has something to add to Thursday's Cahplaincy memorial then
you can also contact the uni via s.bainbridge@lancs.ac.uk.
24th May, 2008 - CHAPLAINCY CENTRE MEMORIAL THANKS
Wow thank you for those you turned up at the memorial at the chaplaincy
centre, it was a touching and warming. I would like to share two emails that not everyone may have had access to, with regards
to the positive affect of the memorial and the gathering of Ed's works to be put forward for publication. Firstly an email
from Simon Bainbridge Professor of Romantic Studies at Lancaster University and one from Ed's tutor Vic Bennet during his
undergrad days, also at Lancaster Universit.
Dear all,
" I'm
writing to thank you all for your support of, and contributions to, the memorial gathering held for Ed Lomax yesterday.
I spoke to Ed's parents afterwards and they were very appreciative of the event. I have also just had a call from Sheila Walsh
in Student Support who was at the service. By chance she had met Mr and Mrs Lomax this lunchtime and they told her that they
felt the event had made an enormous difference to them, helping them to feel proud of Ed and to begin to move forwards.
Best
wishes
Simon"
Dear Simon and all
"
For my part and on behalf of the others from Wild Women Press who could not make the service, thanks to all for making it
happen and thank you too Simon for letting us know this from Ed's parents. I know from experience that this kind of thing
can help in seeing the person we have lost through the loving eyes of the other people in our loved one's life...
Ed's
parents came and spoke with me following the service with regards to the proposed WWP publication of a collection of Ed's
poetry and the establishing of a Poetry Prize in his memory - they felt very strongly that they would like this to happen,
so I will be getting on with this. To this end, we invite support to create this memorial to Ed and his life and talent.
If
I might ask for any assistance people feel able to offer...George and Simon, Anna and Jenny - if I could have from you the
following towards it, that would be really helpful, as you said things that would be fitting and moving, if you are happy
to share these:
your memorial speeches
copies of Ed' portfolios and MA submissions to help us select from Eds work
- we have some on file but not all and not his most recent work
We are raising funds for the publication through advance
sales and raising funds for the prize through donations and sales. If you wish to make a donation to the Prize Fund or order
a book, please email me for further details:
vik@wildwomenpress.com
The prize will be based on submission of poetry and an application
and will support a previously unpublished poet in the development of their work, in keeping with Ed's own passionate support
of the talents of others.
Any help in letting people know about this would be really good - passing the word around
the department, around Ed's friends and social circle - just get in touch if you can help...on this or the above email. I
can then give further details.
Anna, I wish you much luch for 31st May - perhaps we can talk before this by email -
I don't suppose I will be able to make an evening event with the babe still young but I do hope it is joyful and tender:-)
as I know it will be...Ollie tells me you have a copy of the WWP DVD of Ed performing and pictures if you want to screen it
during the gathering, then that would be ok with us...let us know if we can help in any way...and what is happening.
With
many thanks and much love to all
Vik Bennett "
GREGSON CENTRE UPDATE
Will be getting a phone call from
Rodger Moorhouse tommorrow to relay exactly what we need to determine the cost of hire. The next week will be all about gathering
what people will be doing so we can run up a program. As of yet no idea when everything will start or how long it will go
on for but this will come to light through my chat with Rodger. -Anna-
25th May, 2008 - GREGSON CENTRE UPDATE
Called Roger Moorhouse and confirmed that the room will be £40.00 with
amp and no extra charge to open up the Olive Bar. Will be getting another call from one of their tech guys to do a tech run
at some point this week. It seems its all coming together...
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