This post should probably be called Pagan Ear rather than Pagan Eye. On Saturday, while I was taking part in a wonderful psychogeography-inspired walk and pub crawl along the Thames - which I'll probably be writing more about later - I found myself at Tower Bridge just as it was about to open to let in a flotilla of various historic vessels and ships. They then began to play opera using their bells, horns, whistles and hooters. It was quite remarkable.
A huge crowd was gathering to listen and watch the spectacle, and someone told me that this performance was called 1513: A Ships’ Opera, by Richard Wilson and Zatorski and Zatorski, and was part of the Thames Festival.
You can find out more about it and hear the opera on the Thames Festival website - although the online version is considerably more melodic and less surreal than it sounded to my ears at the time.
On each Pagan Eye post, I show a photo that I find interesting, with a few words about it - it could be a seasonal image, a pagan site, an event, or just a pretty picture. If you want to send me a photo for a Pagan Eye post, please email it to badwitch1234@gmail.com Let me know what the photo shows and whether you want your name mentioned or not. For copyright reasons, the photo must be one you have taken yourself and you must confirm that you are submitting it for A Bad Witch's Blog.
Links and previous related posts
http://thamesfestival.org/events/info/1513-a-ships-opera
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/deities-of-week-thames-isis.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/review-thames-sacred-river-by-peter.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/02/psychogeography-by-merlin-coverley.html
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