Jan ‘Yarn’
Wositzky’s
CANAKKALE.
GALLIPOLI. LEST WE FORGET
Two Cultures. One story. Gallipoli.
Canakkale is what Turkish
people call the 1915 war at Gallipoli, and Canakkale.
Gallipoli. Lest We Forget is unique music and story theatre that tells the tragic
story using both Turkish and Australian song and poetry - Nazim Hikmet ,
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Ted Egan and Eric Bogle amongst others.
Created and performed by master storyteller and founding
Bushwacker, Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky, Canakkale.
Gallipoli. Lest We Forget was originally performed as a lead in to the Dawn
Service at Anzac Cove, where it received a rapturous applause from the 8000
people awaiting the sunrise.
Free from the shackles of nationalism it’s the story of how
enemy soldiers shared a mutual hell and grew to respect each other – all the
while continuing to kill the other - whilst back home the Turkish and
Australian women mourned their missing menfolk. It’s also the story of how Jan
‘Yarn’ Wositzky encountered the friendship that Turks and Australians share
today.
Please come on time and plan to stay for the entire show.
75 minutes.
(Harvey
Broadbent, maker of Gallipoli documentaries)
Newstead Live! (10 Ks from Castlemaine)
Uniting Church
Sunday January 25, 1pm
Entry by festival ticket
Newstead Live!: Festival details HERE
