Friday September 13th 2019, 6.15pm
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Lecture by: Cahal Dallat with music, & Yeats readings by poet Anne-Marie Fyfe at the London Buddhist Vihara (left)
The story of WB Yeats, who, though much inspired by West-of-Ireland legend, landscape & longing, spent two-thirds of his youth in London, mostly in Bedford Park, the diverse artists’-colony of actors, anarchists, Arts & Crafts practitioners, poets, painters, playwrights, & late-nineteenth-century seekers after wisdom & truth who fostered his unique Nobel-Prize-winning literary genius.
A rare opportunity to hear the Yeats/Bedford Park story from the founder/organiser of the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project, Cahal Dallat, in the unique setting of the Buddhist Vihara, in the building which was, from 1877 to 1939, The Bedford Park Club.
This was where Yeats’s father, painter John Butler Yeats joined in debates with fellow artists, writers, critics & political thinkers; where the young WB Yeats witnessed the pageants that were to inspire his symbolist drama & his co-founding of the Irish National Theatre; a particularly appropriate location, too, because of Yeats’s interest in his search for a spiritual dimension, in Hindu & Buddhist literature & teachings.
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Venue: London Buddhist Vihara, The Avenue London W4 1UD
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Read more about WB Yeats in Bedford Park on the Chiswick Timeline of Writers & Books.
Read more about the London Buddhist Vihara and its history on The Chiswick Calendar.