Counting Backwards

Counting Backwards is a new series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months. Counting Backwards takes place at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. The first event is on Thursday 3 June 2010.

Counting Backwards takes as it’s starting point contemporary text-sound practices that question semantics and received traditions and emphasise performability.

The focus is on the exploration of new or unconventional techniques.

A new blog and event series run by Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher.

Update on Friday 23 April, 2010 by Openned

PW10

Friday 7th (evening) - Sunday 9th May

Programme includes:

Talks

• Redell Olsen
• Ric Allsopp
• Caroline Bergvall
• Jean-Jacques Lecercle
• Lone Twin

Performance

• Aaron Williamson
• Nancy Reilly-McVittie
• Low Profile
• Emma Bennet

Readings

• Tony Lopez
• Drew Milne
• Allen Fisher 

Multi-Channel Audio

• David Prior

Video Installation

• Nisha Dugall

Digital and Visual Text

• John Hall
• Jerome Fletcher
• John Cayley
• Ellen Bell
• Melanie Thompson

A Festival of Performance Writing and Cross-artform textual practice, with the opening of Caroline Bergvall and Ciaran Maher's 'Say Parsley' on the evening of the 7th May.

Arnolfini Gallery, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Day Pass £8 / £7 (conc.) 

Weekend pass £20 / £15 (unwaged) / £10 (students)

Website

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Text Festival Call for Submissions

Tony Trehy:

The third international Text Festival in Bury, Manchester, UK, will open on Friday 29th April 2011.

Project proposals and submissions are invited - in any artform (sound, media, poetry, visual art, etc) using language in innovative ways. As I have mentioned over the last few months the shape of the next festival has been forming, with some great things in place already. There are more venues and new approaches. In addition to the open call, you can submit ideas in response to 4 projected exhibition themes:

1.Duchamp
2.Sentences
3.Visual Poetry
4.Artists’ Books

E-mail Tony Trehy or write to Text Festival, Bury Art Gallery, Moss St, Bury BL9 ODR

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Knives, Forks and Spoons Second Event

Tuesday 13th April, 7pm

• Matt Dalby
• Alec Newman
• Simon Rennie

The Crescent Pub, 20 The Crescent, Salford, Lancashire M5 4PF

Oxfringe at the Northgate

Friday 9th April, 7.30pm

• Giles Goodland
• Gavin Selerie
• Vahni Capildeo

Oxford improvisers present an evening of poetry, music and dance.

Church of St. Michael at the Northgate, Cornmarket, Oxford

Admission £8 / £6 (conc.)

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First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

Following on from a previous post where it was called the First Annual Brighton Poetry Festival, here is the line-up for the First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival.

Please note, all events are sold out except for Friday afternoon, where all are welcome.

Friday 16th April (afternoon) 

• 1pm Tim Atkins, Luke Roberts, and Carol Watts
• 2:30pm Sussex Student Medley (to include Francesca Lisette, Josh Stanley, Gareth Farmer, and others)
• 4pm Andrea Brady and Alan Halsey

Meeting House, University of Sussex

Admission £8 / £6 (conc.)

Friday 16th April (evening)

• 8pm Jeff Hilson, Vahni Capildeo, Harry Gilonis
• 9.30pm Chris Goode, Jonny Liron

Followed by Barkingside Band

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Saturday 17th April (afternoon)

• 1pm Michael Kindellan, Justin Katko, Marianne Morris
• 3pm Tom Jones, Trevor Joyce, Sophie Robinson

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Saturday 17th April (evening)

• 7pm Sean Bonney, Alan Hay, Geraldine Monk

Performance from Jeremy Hardingham

Followed by a reading and music from Stuart Calton and fellow music maker

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Cambridge Reading Series

Friday 2nd April, 7.30pm

• Trevor Joyce
• Nour Mobarak

Judith E. Studio Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge

Admission is free, all welcome, free pamphlet and wine served.

The Other Room 2nd Birthday

You can also read an interview with Tom Jenks, co-founder of The Other Room, at 3:AM Magazine, and read details of the forthcoming The Other Room Anthology 2009/2010 at The Other Room website. More details as and when it is printed.

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