This was a decision that had to be made, it's more than clear. We have to decide pretty soon what will happen in 2021. Maarten already explained our options: In 2021 Either The Ghent Event OR Hydra Meetup (June) and the Walking Weekend (Fall) Obviously our 2021 decision will also nail the 2022 sched...

https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/ev-paola.jpg Paola at our Montreal 2000 Event Sad news from Italy. Paola was one of the very first Cohenites we ever met. In 1999 we had a meet-up weekend in Paris, with a dozen participants. Paola had never before met any other Cohen fans, and was very excited how...

https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/L&S.jpg SHARON ROBINSON: “A Thousand Kisses Deep – My Time with Leonard Cohen” From Sharon: I wanted to let you know that I’ll be touring soon in North America with a new solo show called, “A Thousand Kisses Deep - My Time with Leonard Cohen.” It’s an hour-long sho...

From Evelyne Bénomard:

Once more I found a new film with a song of Leonard Cohen.
I’m your Man at the beginning of "L’autre" ( 2020 ) a french movie by Charlotte Dauphin.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10098442/

Greetings from Ontario, Canada, Perhaps your readers, listeners, and lovers of “all good things” related to Mr. Cohen would enjoy this broadcast. The Sunday Edition on CBC radio on Sunday morning included this story from Ottawa, Canada. It is about teaching English as a second language through rhyt...

Below is a link to a lyrics video by the Polish band PLATEAU, promoting the Cohen tribute album "Projekt Cohen" due in March 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9DXTg9KIo&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1WJlVhWzs7Eb6RshXYz67HZgcRrBHxLkUk94qdiHU0y3qT60XZ0FcjL0A PLATEAU - Słynny niebieski prochowiec z al...

From Miriam Perandones, professor of the University of Oviedo, Spain. In 2014, they established a research centre called "Cátedra Leonard Cohen" and are organizing activities promoting Leonard's work and research. Their next project is to organize a conference on LC next April. I am sending you the ...

From Evelyne Bénomard: Here is another movie with a Leonard ‘s song, Darkness. The movie is It Must be Heaven ; filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. France, December 2019. Complete soundtrack here: https://open.spotify.com/p...

Petri Kuivalainen reported that Spotify has a live bootleg, recorded in Gothenburg in Sweden during The 1993 Future Tour. Make a search for A Poet in Gothenburg to find it. Nine songs in pretty good technical quality (copied from a local radio station) Amazon UK also lists it (only for MP3 download)...

The new sub-forum is here: https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewforum.php?f=93

I have moved threads about the new album to a sub-section of its own in the "Music Place". Here is direct link: https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewforum.php?f=93 (This locked message has been posted for information only. Please submit all discussions about this posthumous masterpiece in the new s...

We wanted to keep the discussion in the News section for a while because many new visitors look first at the News, to find out what is going on. The new album threads will be moved to Music Place soon, very soon.

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Den and Josie: please read the first message in this thread - all the info is there!
Also at https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/ghent2020.html