UP & COMING EVENTS
WINTER SOLSTICE 2024
WINTER SOLSTICE 2024
All welcome, children & adults to celebrate the Winter solstice at Herne Bay Community garden in Herne Bay Memorial Gardens.
I will be performing a poetic ritual at 2pm.
PAST EVENTS
NOVEMBER 23RD 2024
PSYCHIC FAYRE
Peace by the Sea, 81a Northwood Road, Tankerton, CT5 2HD
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23RD 10.30AM - 3PM
I will be selling my Tree spirit calendars, snowflake cards and Flower Oracle Cards.
£1 entry
November 2024
A WINTER’S TALE
Exhibition of Christmas cards, paintings and calendars.
Private View Nov 29th 6-8pm
7pm poetic performance
Hélène Williams accompanied
by
Peter Coyte soundscaping on synth.
OCTOBER 2024
ALL HALLOWS’ EVE PERFORMANCE
A poetic performance by Hélène Williams at ‘Peace by the Sea’, Tankerton.
Coniungere ad terram, Coniungere ad terram
The veil is thin on this ALLHALLOW’S EVE
A time to remember for those we grieve.
Connecting to earth,
The dark soil beneath our feet.
Acceptance of dark and light are needed, to complete.
We stand at the point of Summer’s end
Where apples fall and leaves become brown,
Seasons turn, and turn around.
Into the earth, this time of return.
It’s her womb-like nature and comfort we yearn.
Protected with leaf-woven blankety mist.
A place to consolidate, digest and reminisce.
Portal-ed hole forms underground,
The place where vulnerability is labelled, ’lost and found’.
A dark nothingness descends from above.
No comfort and protection, just a deep loss of love.
Diving into dark, dank, depressive ditch,
Knowing that sometimes, life is a bitch.
Though silent numbness swirls around & around & around.
A drumbeat in the distance enters, Eastern bound.
Could this be the beginning of another day?
The start of me being in another way.
Leaving behind my dismal sorrows.
Allowing possibilities for future tomorrows.
Coniungere ad terram, Coniungere ad terram
The veil is thin on this All hallows’ Eve.
A time to remember for those we grieve.
Connecting to earth,
The dark soil beneath our feet.
Accepting that dark and light help us complete.
SEPTEMBER 2024
CLICK ON PHOTO FOR VIDEO OF PERFORMANCE.
THE WOMB THAT TIME FORGOT
At one time the land and oceans of planet earth were a sacred living being, the womb of creation. We have become disconnected from nature, replacing veneration with domination. As a result of this severance we have lost our sense of responsibility giving rise to a polluted world; in particular our seas are filled with sewage and plastic products.
Ritual performance where locals followed Hélene to the beach placing pebbles with messages to the sea in a womb shaped pattern. A poem was read then all chanted, ”Purgare Maris” meaning, ‘Purify the sea’, giving love back to nature.
PUGARE MARIS
A poetic performance from Helene Williams and Peter Coyte soundscaping on synth. Part of the Fiesta on the beach, a fundraiser for the local carnival in August. This took place in Whitstable on West beach on June 22nd 2024 at an auspicious time. It was high (full) tide, full moon and on the solstice - the time of full sun. Pugare Maris (latin for purifying the sea) was chanted by the audience in the last verse - lets hope the sea felt the love!
SUMMER SOLSTICE 2024
Hélène Williams recites her poem to the sun at Reculver Towers as it rises on June 21st, the summer solstice 2024.
BE-ING NATURE EXHIBITION
Video of a poetic performance at the opening of the Be-ing Nature exhibition.
Poem written and performed by Helene Williams. Sound scaling on synth by Peter Coyte.
BEING NATURE
EXHIBITION IN MALLORCA
Hélène is a plant whisperer who communicates with plants, receiving images which form inspiration for the paintings in this exhibition.
Hélène has invented her own avant-garde technique, where watercolour paintings are transformed by printing onto silk/satin fabric and then framed in wood. The artworks from this exhibition are all created by this innovative method and sold as limited editions with a certificate of authentication.
RISING
Saturday June 3rd 7.30pm
The Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson St. London E2 8JD. Nearest station - Hoxton.
"A shadow performance steeped in ancient Egyptian mythology, accompanied by mystical sounds, poetry and song.”
The first half of the programme is a play about the cycle of the rising and setting of the sun, enacting the relationship between Ra the Sun God and the powerful female deity Isis.
The second half concerns the love triangle between the sibling gods Osiris, Isis and Seth, involving love murder and rebirth.
Saturday 3rd June at 7.30pm.
Hélène Williams - shadow performer (Isis), poet, sonic incantations.
Steve Bird - shadow performer (Osiris), singer, musician.
Jeff Bloom - shadow performer (Seth)
Peter Coyte - synthesiser soundscapes.
Peter Coyte is a composer and performer producing work for stage, dance, film, and installations. His recording career began in 1994 as Shape Navigator on Guerilla Records and in Ska/Punk/dub/Spoken Word duo SaltPeter. His credits include music for plays at The Everyman in Liverpool, documentary films by director Francois Verster, the Royal Opening of The new Darwin Centre at The Natural History Museum, Caroline Dorfman Dance Company, and Big State Theatre Company. His film soundtrack work includes: ’Dreams of Shahrazad’, 'Sea Point Days', 'The Mothers' House’, and ‘Fun”.
He is currently a member of the experimental ensemble Automatic Writing Circle.
Stephen Bird (aka Jowe Head) is a musician, vocalist and visual artist, who was a founder member of influential pioneering experimental punk band Swell Maps before joining Television Personalities. He has also released a large amount of material as a solo artist, and as leader of groups such as Househunters, Palookas, Angel Racing Food, Demi-Monde and Infernal Contraption. He has exhibited his visual art-work in the USA and Europe as well as UK. He has collaborated on performance art pieces in UK with Helene for Whitstable Biennale and at Hundred Years Gallery.
Jeff Bloom is a widely experienced performer on stage and screen. He is best known for his work as a drummer and percussionist, and has collaborated with Jowe Head in Television Personalities, Househunters and Swell Maps C21.Soul-ar will be also performed as part of an evening of shadow performance, poetry, soundscapes and music.
SOUL-AR
MARCH 2023
Hélène Williams (Isis) performed a sonic incantation to Ra the sun God accompanied by the electric soundscaper Peter Coyte as part of the Coastal Electronauts at the Whitstable Labour Club.
OLD FATHER THAMES
LONDON 2022
Old Father Thames poem written and performed by Helene Williams to the River Thames on Jubilee Bridge 2022. This poem captures the birth of this mighty river from glaciation in the Chiltern hills recorded in ancient legend as Father Thames having relations with the Egyptian Goddess Isis - somewhere around Oxford.
I AM EARTH
OCTOBER 2022
Poem written & recited by Hélène Williams at Mustard Seed, Herne Bay open mike night. Originally performed in a disused lime kiln in a wood for the celebration of Samhain.
COLCA CANYON CONDORS - PERU
JUNE 2022
Condors filmed by Hélène Williams & Odon Medina in Colca Canyon, Peru. Peruvian flute sounds composed & played by Hélène Williams.
UNIVERSAL BREATH
OCTOBER 2020
Greek philosophers believed that the universe was an intelligent, single living creature. After centuries of disconnection between the sacred, us and the cosmos we are returning to this ancient holistic understanding of being.
Animation of spiderwebs blown by the wind.
CLARY SAGE
JUNE 2019
Meditating with Clary Sage this is the song that emerged. The paintings capture the visualisations received - a womb like place of being held and then rocked as if in a cradle - and an alchemical flask holding transformational elements.
HYPERICUM
OCTOBER 2020
Song from St John's Wort, Hypericum, received by Helene Williams. If we sit by a plant and sing different tones to it, intuitively a song emerges - this is the plants song that is co-created between us and nature.
URIZENing
JUNE 2019
This is an animation inspired by William Blake's etching of Urizen excerpted from 'The First Book of Urizen', 1794. Viewed at the Blake exhibition shown in 2019 at The Tate Britain Gallery, London.
WHERE THE SEABED TOUCHES THE SKY
JUNE 2018
Where the seabed touches the sea and the sea touches the sky.
SHAMANIC MIRRORS
JUNE 2018
A Shamanic journey that started at Whitstable harbour, weaving along the coast culminating at The Old Neptune Pub.
Performed by Hélène Williams & Mark Fuller. Accompanied by Steve Bird (aka Jowe Head) on synthesiser.
THE LAST SUPPER?
JUNE 2017
Filmed by Hélène Williams
Armenian soldiers toasting comrades before setting off to fight in the Karabakh war. Filmed through the bottom of a drinking glass that depicts the symbol of Armenian national identity - the cycle of eternal regeneration.
THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TWO WORLDS.
June 2016
Performed at low tide on ‘The Street’, the beach that extends as a strip into the sea. Legends foretell that this is on a ley-line that runs from Canterbury Cathedral, a place where sailors died and their ghosts hover in this liminal space between the two worlds. Performers: Hélène Williams, Mark Fuller accompanied by music from the Demi Monde: Jowe Head, Tim Bowen, Catherine Gerbrand and Ravi Low-Beer. Song composed & sung by Jowe Head. Poem written & read by Chris Stone.
THE DAY THE SUN STOOD STILL
JUNE 21st 2016
Filmed at Studd Hill, Herne Bay by Hélène Williams every 3 hours starting from 1am through to 10pm on June 21st, summer solstice.
THE NIGHT THE SUN WAS REBORN
FEBRUARY IMBOLC 2016
Filmed in a bonfire at Studd Hill, Herne Bay by Hélène Williams. Ceramic sun wheels and sacred cows fired by Hélène.
TOUCHING THE EARTH
MEXICO 2015
Performed by Hélène Williams at Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico as part of an arts residency. Inspired by a psychic dream where the male water enters Mother Earth as they conjoin together as one, receiving a sacred offering of rose petals.
SHAMELESS
JUNE 2015
Performed by Hélène Williams in a waterfall, Jalisco, Mexico, as part of an artist in residency. Influenced by Frida Kahlo and the sexuality of women as being part of nature - something that has been suppressed in Mexico in the past.
MILKING THE COAST
APRIL 2015
Performed by Hélène Williams & Mark Fuller on Whitstable Beach.
SACRED & PROFANE
JUNE 2015
Animation by Hélène Williams. Watercolour paintings collaged within Hélène’s hands that form sacred Mudras - telling the story of creation.
Shown as part of Sacred & Profane exhibition at The Hundred Years Gallery.
THE SPIRAL THAT WENT INTO THE SEA DECEMBER Winter Solstice 2015
Filmed at Studd Hill, Herne Bay by Hélène Williams. The masculine waters enter the female spiral of life as they merge together as one.
TURNER GALLERY OPENING
MARGATE 2011
Hélène Williams & 2 other fellow conspirators.
