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Dear Friends,
Please accept this duplicated newsletter from me with some news which should interest you. The Arts Laboratory Located on Drury Lane for the past two and a half years is closed. The Arts Lab was many things to many people: a vision frustrated by an indifferent, fearful, and secure society; an experiment with such intangibles as people, ideas, feelings, and communications; a restaurant; a cinema; a theatre (Moving Being, Freehold, Poeple Show, Human Family, etc); underground television (Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, Isle of Wight, Dick Gregory All-Night Event); a gallery (past exhibitions include Yoko Ono & Lennon, Takis, et al); free notice boards (buy/sell, rides to Paris); a tea room; astrological readings; an information bank (tape,video, &live-Dick Gregory, Lennie Bruce, Michael X, Michael McClure…); happenings (verbal and otherwise); music (live and tape including The Fugs, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Third Bar Band, Shawn Phillips, Kylastron, etc.) ; books, magazine
Died: December 6, 2020. JIM HAYNES, who has died in Paris at the age of 87, was a bon vivant, an ever-generous host and a flamboyant character who forever had a twinkle in his eye. Formidably well-connected, he was a counter-cultural polymath who recalled introducing David Bowie to the mime artist, Lindsay Kemp, and was once described as being, in the early 1960s, the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland. He founded the UK’s first paperback bookshop, in Edinburgh; when he relocated to Paris, in 1969, he kept an open house, and his Sunday-evening dinners became the stuff of Parisian legend.
Annie Freud at her home in Dorset
“This is my cabinet of curiosities!” says Annie Freud, waving toward a great glass-fronted, Victorian-looking thing, its shelves lined with whatnot. The 72-year-old author and artist is cheerfully chain-smoking as she gives me a video-call tour of the room where she writes her poems. It’s a cluttered study in a rural corner of west Dorset – a land of “wild animals and cataclysmic weather,” says Freud – where she lives with her second husband, David.
Freud’s playful poems are themselves cabinets of curiosities. All sorts of curios – a radar station, a Sappho ode, a cucumber green sex toy – are brought to the reader’s attention in much the same way that, at one point in our conversation, she waggles an antique doll in front of the camera. “All dolls are very freaky, but here’s a major freaky doll!” Its dress is tartan, its face the stuff of nightmares.
The truly one-off co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Jim Haynes, has died at the age of 87. Louisiana-born Haynes, known as being a pivotal character in the evolution of the Edinburgh festivals, also opened the first paper-back only bookshop in the UK - which was set up in Edinburgh s George Square in 1959 and soon became a celebrated hotspot for performance and art. Traverse Theatre have paid tribute to the legend, saying: We are heartbroken to hear of the passing of the legendary internationalist, serial entrepreneur and one of the Traverse s founding spirits, Jim Haynes. Jim was truly a “one-off”.