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The plaque will be uncovered by Peter Owen on 20th March at 2pm.  All welcome.  Further details on the Shropshire Star website.

Information about this event is also on our website.

Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” was performed on the opening night of Novaya Opera’s annual “Epiphany Week”, held in Moscow.  Writing in the Moscow Times, Raymond Stults called this performance the best of the festival:

"The very best of what I heard at the festival came on its opening night, with a superbly played and sung performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” under the baton of British guest conductor Jan Latham-Koenig. A moving expression of the composer’s anti-war sentiments, the “War Requiem” combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the great British poet of World War I, Wilfred Owen, and calls for enormous musical forces: a full-sized and a chamber orchestra, an adult mixed chorus and a boys’ choir and three vocal soloists".

The “War Requiem” is due to be repeated at Novaya Opera on May 9. 

Read the review on the Moscow Times website

A report on plans for the Forester's House, where Owen wrote his last letter.

Shropshire Star

Further information about this project is on the Association Wilfred Owen France website.

Read more about the first Oswestry Literary Festival, to be staged over Owen's birthday, in the Shropshire Star.

The Association Wilfred Owen France will be promoting The Forester's House, a museum dedicated to Wilfred Owen, at The France Show 2010, which will be held at Earls Court, London. The Association and others will be holding a press conference to discuss the museum, sceduled to open in 2011, at 3.30pm on 8th January (stand L53).

Download a press release from here.

We have received the following information from Benoit Misson, President of The Association Wilfred Owen France:

"We may count on the presence of the 'Tourism Authority of the Cambrésis' for a 'France Show 2010' meeting to be held in London. A communication about the future of the Forester's House (where Wilfred Owen wrote his last letter) will take place on January 8 - 15:30. Mr Renaud TARDY (Vice
President of the Conseil Général du Nord), several members of the Association and Simon Patterson, the artist, will be present".

The France Show website is www.thefranceshow.com

WOA members are urged to attend to show their support!

The Association Wilfred Owen France website is www.wilfredowen.fr