A Boutique Screening !

It has been a little over a year since our dear friend Konrad Hopkins passed away, in Paisley, Scotland - the town where he worked and resided, and where he touched the lives of so many people - encouraging, exhorting, admonishing even! - all who came within his orbit, to reach out of themselves and be bigger - to be the very best they can be! He did this with charm, wit, trenchant persistence and often - with cash money...!

As a timely tribute, as a fond backward glance at this remarkable man, there is a screening of

U & ME & TENNESSEE - an American romance...

at the Ashtree House Hotel in Paisley, just up the hill from Konrad's stomping ground near the Paisley Library & Museum, and the University of the West of Scotland.

Screening time: 2:00 p.m. Sunday, 26. June, 2011

My thanks to the kind proprietors of the Ashtree House Hotel, who generously host a number of local poetry and music events, always well attended by a substantial, lively and creative group of men and women. And also to Bill Kelly, one of Konrad's protegés, who became a real son to him.

It will be good to see Konrad Hopkins on a big(ish) screen again - and to see how this remarkable, open-hearted and honest movie affects a new audience who knew Konrad, but did not know the full story behind his 1950's romance with Tennessee Williams.

As my dear friend the late Lindsay Anderson used to sign off: "Onward!"

See you there!