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FOSIL News & Views 24Th June 2021 FOSIL News & Views 24th June 2021 St Ives Library and Information Centre is open for browsing, computer use, information, CAB and (some) activities 9:30am - 4:00pm Monday – Saturday St Ives Library & During the G7 week we were delighted to host Cornwall Council Community Link and Police Officers and be the centre point, providing information for all local and visitor enquires. The building was a hive of activity and over the Friday and Saturday we also welcomed in the brilliant Writers Block Cornwall and became a satellite Youth News Hub! Commissioned by Cornwall Council as part of their Y7 legacy project, The Writers’ Block created two Youth News Hubs for the duration of the G7 weekend. Based out of the Newsroom at Falmouth University and here in St Ives, the project worked with 15 young people from right across Cornwall to report on the G7 activities and to get local people’s thoughts and views on them. In St Ives, Ollie and Florence, both of whom live locally, worked with Artistic Director Annamaria Murphy, alongside emerging writer Jowan Jacobs and visual artist Lizzie Black. They interviewed a range of local people and created postcards as visual representations of the conversations. This included Ben, from St Ives company EBikes, who talked about the necessity of long term employment, affordable housing and how the pandemic has increased loneliness and isolation. Ollie was pleased to interview Councillor Kirsty Arthur, St Ives Town Mayor, and created a postcard inspired by their conversation. and also produced an arresting postcard image from a comment by an Extinction Rebellion protester ‘drowning in promises’ The Falmouth team, led by ex BBC South West head Leo Devine, and a team of writers and Falmouth Journalism students were also extremely busy. Amongst other engagements they reported on the XR protest and the SAS paddle Out at Gylly, had a tour around the International Media Centre in Falmouth, got top tips from journalists from LBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera. They were also able to follow their own stories including sustainable clothing and Cornwall Pride, plus write op ed pieces including Cornwall beyond ‘Poldark and pasties.’ Artistic Director Anna Maria Murphy ‘We were so lucky to be able to set up the St.Ives branch, right in the centre of the action in the library, where we were able to send bulletins and stories that our young reporters had collected from the streets and the series of interviews arranged for us straight to the newsroom in Falmouth, which where then shared with the G7 press desk. We hope this will be the first of many more collaborations with St.Ives - it has been one of my favourite projects’. The overall project has been a huge success, with young people, parents, funders and stakeholders praising the quality of the news output and the experience. We echo Anna, it was wonderful to have a vibrant, creative and thought provoking project take place again in the library, here’s to many more as we safely navigate our way through these extraordinary times. Emma Gibson, Cultural Services Manager Think you're being targeted by a scam? Take your time and get advice. Contact @CitizensAdvice for help with what to do next by calling 0808 223 1133, and report suspected scams to @ActionFraudUK. You can also visit their website bit.ly/3wdWYw8 Want to subscribe to Cornwall Council’s Scam Alert Text Service? Subscribe on line by following this link. https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/.../trading-standards-text.../ Citizens Advice appointments can be booked at St Ives library Missing Jo’s Craft Classes? Never fear – Jo is still running craft classes although sadly not in the library (yet) One off FREE workshops running throughout August as follows: • Crazy Patchwork Bookmark C3532536 4th August • Mini Fabric Collage • C353253711th August • Polymer Clay Beads C3532538 18th August • Ice Dyeing Fabric • C3532539 25th August Each workshop lasts 1.5 hours Further info: https://www.wea.org.uk/find- course We are looking for volunteers to help us run this year’s Summer Reading Challenge. If you are between 13-18 years old, we would love to hear from you. Volunteering at the library also counts towards the Duke of Edinburgh Award Interested? Pop into the library for more information Libraries Connected Awards 2021 Libraries Connected is an excellent website for anyone interested in all things library related. This year they are running an award. Libraries Connected Awards 2021 – information (in brief) is as follows: ‘We have launched the inaugural Libraries Connected Awards 2021 to celebrate the achievements of people working in libraries, acknowledging excellence and showcasing good practice. The awards are open to all except Heads of Service. Applications are welcomed from individuals, on their own behalf or for others, and from partners. The judging criteria and nomination form can be found here. The deadline for nominations is 6pm on Friday 30 July.’ Cyril Tawney (1930 - 2005) - founding father of the folk revival in the West Cyril Tawney was a pioneer of the English folk revival with a special interest in the Performing at the Folk Cottage, West Country and maritime songs. He not only researched traditional folk songs of Mitchell in 1965 the South West but also wrote songs that used local imagery and culture for many of his compositions. He was an early inspiration for many on the 1960’s folk scene and his songs are still sung to this day by contemporary artists. Cyril was born into a naval family in Gosport, Hampshire in 1930, entering the Navy at the age of 16 and serving as an electrician for some 13 years, with several of those being spent on submarines. While still in service he appeared on an Alan Lomax radio programme on Christmas Day 1957 singing a seasonal folk song and the following Easter sang on TV, which led to a weekly television spot. He decided to buy himself out of the Navy in 1959, to become a professional folk musician and broadcaster. He was proud to be able to say that he made a living this way for some 44 years. He had a weekly BBC radio show called “Folkspin” and established his first folk club in January 1962 in Plympton. The club struggled for a few months until a move into Plymouth with a new home at the West Hoe Hotel improved audience numbers. Known as the Plymouth Folk Song Club (PFSC), this venue was visited by John Sleep a budding young folk-singer who was to start his own Cornish club, the famous Folk Cottage at Mitchell, a couple of years later. The PFSC was an inspiration for many other clubs and had several homes in the area until Cyril opened the West of England Folk Centre in 1965. That same year saw John Sleep open the Folk Cottage and book Cyril to play. Cyril had already performed at the Count House during its first season of 1964 and certainly returned to play Brenda Wootton’s Pipers Folk Club in 1972 at the Western Hotel in Penzance. Cyril took the study of folk song very seriously and he decided to study English and History at Lancaster University in 1972 which he graduated from and went on to do a masters degree at Leeds Institute of Dialect and Folkloric Studies. He later published a book ‘Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song and Verse of the Royal Navy 1900 to 1970’, a classic work of naval social history and song. Cyril did not endlessly tour as he was so busy running the Folk Centre, researching, broadcasting and of course song-writing. Original songs had first to come to Cyril in the late 1950s while still in the navy and many remain classics of the genre today. Here are a few of his ‘greatest hits’: ‘Sally Free and Easy’ (recorded by Davey Graham, Pentangle, Bob Dylan and more), ‘Grey Funnel Line’ (name for the Royal Navy),‘Chicken on a Raft’ (naval slang for egg on toast/fried bread), ‘Five-Foot Flirt’ (great version by Adge Cutler) and the classic ‘The Oggie Man’ (on Brenda Wootton’s “Pasties and Cream” LP as ‘Oggy Man’). He produced quite a recorded legacy of songs, but interpretations by other artists often improve on his originals and better express their true meaning. First EP 1962 ‘The Oggie Man’ is one of Cyril’s finest compositions and he described its origins thus: An ‘oggie’ is slang for a Cornish pasty, the full term being ‘tiddy oggie’ with its native use being confined to Cornwall and SW Devon, especially around the naval port of Plymouth. In his navy days Cyril remembers many places in Plymouth where you could buy oggies but there was one particular man who sold them from a box near the Albert Gate of the Dockyard, frequented by sailors often after returning from a night out on the town. He had in fact heard the seller’s cry on the radio some years before when it was requested by an overseas Plymouth sailor on “Sounds from Home”. The subject matter had also been suggested to him by BBC producer and friend Brian Patten one night in a pub. All this seemed like a sign that the song had to be written, so he started on his walk home that very evening when it began to drizzle with rain, hence the opening line: “Well, the rain’s softly falling”. June Tabor is one of our greatest singers and she has recorded several of Cyril’s songs over the years. Listen to ‘Grey Funnel Line’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FI86oV3qA and a great rendition of ‘The Oggie Man’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgTmnGTGxeU 1970 LP includes songs collected by Ralph Dunstan in 1930s Camborne Phil Saward e.g.
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