Thursday, May 21, 2009

guild of artist and poets

Well if I had known that the battle of the sexes was going to be fought at PLAY SPORTS BAR AND LOUNGE I would have gone better prepared. But it is interesting to note that a gathering of artistic minds could spark up something so deep.
I attended my second meeting of GAP (guild of artist and poets) and I listened to lines that could stir the most docile of spirit. From traditional forms to the more avant-garde, from amateurs to award winners (the ALS grand slam champion was in attendance as well as another member who won an award for a poem she wrote when she was 11).
It is said that poets and artist are tormented souls that purge their ‘emotions’ through the medium of their art, and this gathering of people have done just that. A craving for change is 1 topic that just kept recurring. Change in the way we live, change in the way we treat our neighbours, our country, our environment, even a change in the way we treat change.
And I absolutely positively believe that gap will prove an effective medium for stirring change, because sitting in a meeting you see passionate young people who are ready to take the world over and they will. Take time out and attend a GAP meeting, see what it does for u, its not all serious stuff, you have a lot of fun listening to people dole out the good the bad and the tmi(too much information) poems, its a good avenue for networking and u will be doing all this in a highly relaxed ambience of play . Who knows you just might leave a meeting more conscious, more resolved and every experience will bring you closer to deeper conviction. Looking forward to having you.

P.S GAP meetings hold every Sunday @ 5.30pm,the venue is PLAY SPORTS BAR &LOUNGE, opp peniel apartment, wuse 2, Abuja.

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