Full Fathom Five... : 'A Song For Saettedammen' : Seamus Breathnach : Shakespeare 7:

Velkommen, hej med jer alle.
Sjaellaendere, fynboer, jyder
godt I er kommet fra fjern og fra naer,
nu skal vi fest, alle og enhver.

. . . Det er lorday eftermiddag, og festen -- Saettedammens 10-ars jubilaeum -- er begyndt.

The above words of welcome triggered Saetedammen's 1982 Jubilaeumsfest (28-9 August). 'A Song For Saettedammen' is one person's appreciation of those days. It is both a celebration of things done as well as a dirge for the demise of the secular socialist spirit that then prevailed -- a spirit that spread over several decades and which we try to resusitate through the lyrics of Shakespeare's 'Full Fathoms Five...'

Regrets that such a small selection of photos -- mostly those few available and to hand and concerning a younger generation -- are incorporated.

For a brief picture-tour of Saettedammen's Collective, See
http://l.cohousing.org/dk99/DKtour_SA1.html
See also:
[PDF] Sættedammen, Hillerød

Or read all about Saettedammen's origins at
http://www.dfwnetmall.com/ecovillage/origins-cohousing-how-began.htm

Full fathom five[1] thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change[2]
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

-- Ariel's song from The Tempest (W.Shakespeare)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Denmark
• Song
• Saettedammen
• Jubilaumsfest
• Hillerod
• Nye Hammersholt ; s.breathnach