POLYply 6

Stress Fractures: Wilkes, Pester & Silva

Thursday 16th December, 8pm

• Holly Pester
• Hannah Silva
• James Wilkes

Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

Admission £6 (£4 conc.)

Booking

Tom Raworth & Hugo Williams

Late notice:

Monday 6th December, 6.30pm

• Tom Raworth
• Hugo Williams

Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's Building, Strand Campus, King’s College, London

Admission is free, all welcome

Making and Unmaking Text

27th - 29th January 2011

Making and unmaking text across performance practices and theories is a three day participatory event which looks to expand the notion of the academic conference, by asking participants to present and respond. We hope this direct and primary response-led work will open up discussion and offer productive cross-discipline exchange. We will be providing a performative academic forum: to explore the place of text in practice; the making and unmaking of the text; and the questioning of academic protocols by this destabilising of the text. We hope participants and will see how text functions in different practice-based disciplines and how to contextualise different notions of textuality.

This event aims to bring together practice based postgraduate students from institutions across the uk. We invite 30 participants to engage in a series of performances, responses, workshops and conversations over the course of three days. Each participant will be asked to contribute by performing, discussing or presenting their work. This event will provide opportunities for practice-based researchers from different academic disciplines to engage in dialogue and knowledge transfer with their peers, and to open up possibilities for future collaborative and multi-disciplined events to take place.

Funded by Beyond Text, an AHRC programme, in association with Royal Holloway, University of London

Details of a call for work posted on the Making and Unmaking Text website.

Double Book-Launch: Jonty Tiplady & Amy De’Ath with Kristen Kreider

Wednesday 15th December, 7.30pm

• Amy De'Ath
• Kristen Kreider
• Jonty Tiplady

A double book-launch: Eric & Enide by Amy De'Ath and Zam Bonk Dip by Jonty Tiplady, with a video performance by Kristen Kreider. Hosted by Richard Parker.

The Old Red Lion, 42 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4RS

Admission is free (as are mince pies)

Shearsman Reading Series: Lynne Hjelmgaard & Michael Zand

Tuesday 7th December, 7.30pm

• Lynne Hjelmgaard
• Michael Zand

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH

Admission is free

The Arab-Israeli Book Club

Wednesday 8th December, 8pm

• Ariel Kahn
• Samir El-Youssef

London’s only Arab-Israeli Book Club continues: this time the focus is on a female perspective of the Middle East. Selected passages and an accompanying handout will also be available on the night.

The Magdala, 2a South Hill Park, London NW3 2SB

Bookings: 020 7431 9866 or go here.

Admission £6 (advance) / £8 (on the door)

The Situation Room

Saturday 27th November, 7.30pm

• Jennifer Cooke
• Chris Goode
• Jeremy Hardingham
• Jonny Liron
• Andrew Oliveira
• Nat Raha

Plus collaborative performance from Chris Goode, Jeremy Hardingham, Jonny Liron and Andrew Oliveira.

7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, Greater London N15 4

Admission is free

Update on Wednesday 24 November, 2010 by Openned

Addition to the line-up:

• Steve Willey

Two Icelandic & British Poetry Events

Maintenant presents Icelandic poetry at the Icelandic embassy

Friday 26th November, 7.30pm

• Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir
• Patrick Coyle
• Ragnhildur Jóhanns
• Jonny Liron
• Jón Örn Loðmfjörð
• Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
• Christopher Page
• Holly Pester
• Sam Riviere

Icelandic Embassy, 2A Hans Street London SW1X 0JE

Admission is free

3am magazine's Maintenant interview series presents Icelandic & British Poetry

Saturday 27th November, 7pm

• Iain Sinclair & Ragnhildur Jóhanns
• Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl & Stewart Home
• Scott Thurston & Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir
• Jón Örn Loðmfjörð & Tom Jenks

Rich Mix arts centre, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd London E1 6LA

Admission is free

via Steven Fowler

Update on Saturday 20 November, 2010 by Openned

Additional readers added to the line-up for the 26th November:

• Tim Atkins
• Tamarin Norwood
• Jack Underwood

Writers Forum

Saturday 20th November, 4 - 6pm (arrive at 3.30pm)

Featuring the launch of Collaborations for Peter Finch by Bob Cobbing & Lawrence Upton and Hypothetical by Lawrence Upton.

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London EC1

Admission is free