Fragments and thoughts, a performance "All the Leaves are Brown/Cliftonville Dreamin" by kind permission of Julia Riddiough:
To the Garden: A Walk and Talk Through Time and the Seasons with TS Eliot -
Fallen Leaves Festival Garden Gate 2016
All The Leaves Are Brown/Cliftonville Dreamin’
All the leaves are brown
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
And the sky is grey
I've been for a walk
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
I'd be safe and warm
If there was only a way
If I there was only a way
Cliftonville dreamin'
Cliftonville dreamin'
On such a winter's day
Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
Got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray
I pretend to pray
You know the preacher likes the cold
Preacher likes the cold
He knows I'm gonna stay
Knows I'm gonna stay
Cliftonville dreamin'
Cliftonville dreamin'
On such a winter's day
All the leaves are brown
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
And the sky is grey
I've been for a walk
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day
On a winter's day
If I didn't tell her
If I didn't tell her
I could leave today
I could leave today
Cliftonville dreamin'
Cliftonville dreamin'
On such a winter's day
Cliftonville dreamin’
On such a winter's day
Cliftonville dreamin’
On such a winter's day
Notes
‘California Dreamin’ is a song written by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips and the best known version is by The Mamas & the Papas, who released it as a single in 1965. The song is #89 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song became a signpost of the California myth and the arrival of the counterculture era.
Bio
Julia Riddiough is a Margate based artist with an active interest in exploring and investigating the archive, looking at the space between fact and fiction. She creates vivid film and photographic essays, often using found imagery as source material edited and reframed, exhibiting internationally. Julia is the founder of A Brooks Art, which began as a not-for-profit artists' led gallery and has evolved into an itinerant space for engagement and action. A Brooks Art believes art holds the key to unlocking the collective imagination and engaging our society. Described as truly provocative and meaningful, we showcase the value of art and the role it can play in transforming lives.
Contact
Julia Riddiough
www.abrooksart.com
@juliariddiough
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