Sunday Lunch in Tahiti

Listen to another poem from Helmsley Arts Centre. Martin is a Trustee and Treasurer of Helmsley Arts Centre and a member of the Ryedale Writers group based there.
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In Retreat by Brian Clark

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Brian won third prize with this poem in the international Segora open poetry competition in 2011 and was published late last year in France by Through the Mill in Segora: Festival Edition, poetry and poets 2010-2012 an anthology. He is a founder member of the Ryedale Writers Group at Helmsley Arts Centre.

Read by David Powley

Ryedale Artists at Work 3 : Matthew Dwyer

Welcome to another video in our occasional series on Ryedale Artists.

(Note: if you want to increase the quality of the video click on the little cog wheel at the bottom right of the screen after you've clicked the arrow at the centre and choose a higher number. It was made in HD but whether you receive it at top quality depends on your broadband speed.)

Matthew Dwyer and his wife, Louise, own the Saltbox Gallery in Helmsley and they are both practising artists in their own right.  Matthew was commissioned to design and make a new metal gate for St. Oswald's Church in Oswaldkirk village, a project made possible by support from Ryedale District Council and LEADER funding. This video follows its progress to completion just before Christmas 2012.

The Ballad of the Old Meeting House by Martin Vander Weyer

On the 18th day of the 12th month of 2012 Helmsley Arts Centre celebrated the 200th birthday of its home, The Old Meeting House in Helmsley, built by the Quakers in 1812. The party was so successful everyone there agreed we shouldn't wait another hundred years for the next one! One of the evening's delights was the music provided by the Red Hot Santas ski band, last seen in Helmsley market square during the Queen's jubilee celebrations in 2012 - wonderfully energetic, a joyous, funny yet precisely controlled anarchy, that lifted people to their feet to move to its rhythms. Another was this Ballad written and read by Martin, with action in the background provided by Sue Elm and Charlie Grumbley.

As you see you are not actually seeing (as suggested by the box on our website) but only hearing Martin read his ballad but we hope you enjoy it just the same.

If you would like to read the Ballad for yourself then you can on Helmsley Arts Centre website.