tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382161819551822002024-03-05T05:34:20.556-08:00Kay Syrad BlogKay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-44332676168724195362021-06-11T09:03:00.003-07:002021-06-11T09:03:34.836-07:00New blog & website<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">This blog is closing. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please see my new blog and website h</span><span style="font-size: large;">ere: </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span> </span><a href="https://kaysyrad.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://kaysyrad.co.uk/</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-813257033972128812021-05-10T04:37:00.000-07:002021-05-10T04:37:10.263-07:00Eco-poetry at ONCA<p> </p><p>Greetings this unpredictable spring. Just to let you know that <i>kin'd & kin'd*</i> are running a short series of Zoom events with ONCA: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">'field fairing - diverse perspectives on eco-poetry'</p></blockquote><p>starting on 20th May with poet Merrie Joy Williams, for which another batch of tickets has now been released:</p><p><a href="https://onca.org.uk/2021/04/29/eco-poetry-at-o-n-c-a/">https://onca.org.uk/2021/04/29/eco-poetry-at-o-n-c-a/</a></p><p>The series will continue on 17th June with Jason Allen-Paisant.</p><p><i style="font-size: small;"><br /></i></p><p><i style="font-size: small;">kin'd & kin'd </i><span style="font-size: small;">is a composite eco-poet made up of Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler </span></p>Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-50778574470291321292020-11-16T05:52:00.000-08:002020-11-16T05:52:35.325-08:00THINK THING - an interview with kin'd & kin'd<p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Greetings, dear people </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">As some of you know, Clare Whistler and I run workshops and write as the composite eco-poet <i>kin’d & kin’d. </i>We were interviewed
recently for a special MAGMA Poetry issue on <b>collaboration</b>; the shorter version
of the interview appears in the magazine, and a fuller transcript has been made
into a small online book <i>Think Thing </i>(edited by Alice Willitts) available
to read at Elephant Press <a href="http://www.elephantpress.co.uk/"><span lang="EN">http://www.elephantpress.co.uk/</span></a></span></p><p>
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Greetings ---Alas, but inevitably, kin'd & kin'd have had to cancel our Knepp Wildland course, 'Connections' but we have replaced it with a correspondence course 'connections while solituding' - which has already sold out - such is the need for connecting by all means possible at this extraordinary and uncertain time of Covid-19. We will be running new courses as soon as we can. Meanwhile, I like Donna Haraway's idea of 'having heart' rather than having hope (all our hearts beating), and Joanna Macy's suggestion that we don't have to vacillate between hope and hopelessness, but can instead consider the gifts of uncertainty, which include settling for the present moment, and enhancing our solidarity with all our relations - past as well as present, non-human as well as human. See Macy's talk here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmjF1jE2K0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmjF1jE2K0</a><br />
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Please join us for our second eco-poetry writing course at the pioneering and beautiful Knepp Wildland near Horsham, West Sussex.<br />
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This 6 week course will start on <b>Saturday, 2nd May</b> with a Walking Safari led by one of Knepp’s expert ecologists, and will continue on Wednesday evenings, with exciting individual and collaborative writing exercises both inside and outside.<br />
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Since early 2018, Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler have led courses at ONCA arts centre in Brighton, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and Sussex Wildlife Trust at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Our eco-poetry series 'Changing Everything Carefully'* is based on an historical and international range of poetry and creative ideas about how we can reckon with the current eco-challenges that we face.<br />
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Knepp Wildland is a pioneering wilded estate owned by Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree, who has written a beautiful and illuminating account of the long process of transforming their farmland in the award-winning book, WILDING. For more information about Knepp, see knepp.co.uk/home<br />
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The course starts at 9am on Saturday 2nd May, 2020 with a whole day event that will include an overview of the course, a walking safari, lunch, poetry, discussion and writing. We will then meet weekly in the early evening (6-9pm) from Weds 13th May for five weeks, finishing 10th June.<br />
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£190, to include the cost of the safari.Book with Eventbrite: <a href="http://bit.ly/2tK6Sup">bit.ly/2tK6Sup</a><br />
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Knepp Wildland is about 20 minutes’ from Horsham Station, and 30 minutes from Brighton by car. We may be able to organise lifts from Horsham station.<br />
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<br />Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-90688477149704516982020-01-12T11:35:00.000-08:002020-01-12T11:35:40.926-08:00Eco-poetry events 2020Last year, my collaborator Clare Whistler and I ran a number of eco-poetry workshops, at ONCA environmental and social justice space and gallery, Brighton; at the now famous rewilded estate, Knepp Wildland in West Sussex; and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in Suffolk. We also had a residency at White House Farm, Great Glenham, Suffolk, where we made a study of the hedgerows.<br />
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Participants have written some fantastic wild poetry during our workshops, such that we have been compelled to produce anthologies of their work: <i>Poemish & Other Languages, Poemish of the Wildland </i> (both Elephant Press, 2019) and forthcoming, <i>Fabric-ation: Slip Back to Source, a Journey of Materials, </i>which will be launched at ONCA on Tuesday 4th February, 6.30 - 8.30 pm. Free. All welcome.<br />
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This year, our first workshop is for Sussex Wildlife Trust at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, as part of Jane Lovell's residency there, on Thursday 6th February:<br />
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<br />Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-80028823503843484122018-10-01T08:55:00.000-07:002018-10-01T08:55:08.623-07:00TRIPLE BOOK LAUNCH - LEWES<br />
Greetings - I wanted to let you know that my new Cinnamon Press poetry collection will be launched on Wednesday 24th October upstairs at the Elephant & Castle, Lewes (7.00 for 7.30pm; free) together with the launch of two great books, <i>The Missing List, </i>a memoir by Clare Best, and stories and a novella by Jeremy Page in <i>London Calling & Other Stories.</i> <i> </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial;">and Maria Jastrzebska launching <i>The True Story of Cowboy Hat & Ingenue</i></span></div>
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Tuesday, 4th December, 2018 @ West Greenwich Library. 7.00p.m. Free event with refreshments. All welcome. Event held in association with<span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://in-words.co.uk/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c13c1d; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">in-words</a><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></h4>
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'changing everything carefully' (e.e. cummings)</div>
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My new poetry collection, <b>INLAND, </b>will be published by Cinnamon Press in October. </div>
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Launches in Lewes, East Sussex on Weds 24th October and Greenwich Library, London on Tuesday 4th December, and a reading at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Friday 2nd November. Details soon.</div>
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world through poetry and prose-poetry. We will begin with a brief survey of
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Mary’s Church is on Upper Street, London N1 2TX, midway
between Angel and Highbury/Islington tube stations. Buses 4, 19, 30 and 43. For
more information contact Nancy Mattson: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:nmattson@sampo.plus.com">nmattson@sampo.plus.com</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">22 April - 3 June</span></span></div>
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For the last three years The Arts Development Company and Cape Farewell have been running residencies for artists to work with farmers to examine our relationship with food, farming and the wider environment.</div>
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Food is fundamental to life. The way we produce it is the most pressing issue of our times. This exhibition will feature three projects that have had a significant impact for the collaborators involved and audience members.</div>
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EXCHANGE, by artist Chris Drury & poet-novelist Kay Syrad and contributing West Dorset farmers. Bristol based Project ‘The Milking Parlour’ by artist Vanessa Reid and Lincolnshire Project ‘A Field of Wheat’ by artists Anne-Marie Culhane & Ruth Levene and Farmer Peter Lundgren.</div>
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ARTISTS’ TALK WITH VANESSA REID Saturday 29 Apr, 2pm, FREE</div>
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FARMERS QUESTION TIME Thursday 11 May, 7pm, £5</div>
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FILM: ‘COMRADES’ BY BILL DOUGLAS Sunday 14 May, 7.30pm, £6/£5/£4/£3</div>
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‘A FIELD OF WHEAT’<br />TALK & COMMUNAL MEAL Thursday 25 May, 6pm, £5</div>
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10.30am – 3.30pm. At 4pm there will be a reading by award-winning artist and
poet Nancy Campbell, who writes about her experiences in Greenland, followed by
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art as well as writing that pays attention to the relationship between nature
and culture, language and perception* – which precisely is what Nancy
Campbell’s recent collection, <i>Disko Bay,</i>
achieves. On the day, we intend to explore the term itself, to study some
examples of recent eco-poetic work, and have some time for your own making,
moving or writing. All welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reading and discussion. Both events will take place at VERT Institute in
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April prices reduced to £55 / £8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Poetics, </i>Forrest Gander & John Kinsella (2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-90984410013129421092017-03-13T05:25:00.000-07:002017-03-13T05:25:04.863-07:00<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Vert Institute</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">for art events and writing</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Kay Syrad & Chris Drury</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">ECO-POETICS WORKSHOP</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">with poetry reading by Nancy Campbell</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">& discussion with Chris Drury</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Saturday 6 May</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler will lead an eco-poetics workshop 10.30am – 3.30pm. At 4pm there will be a reading by award-winning artist and poet Nancy Campbell, who writes about her experiences in Greenland, followed by an open discussion between Nancy and Chris. There will also be a showing of Chris’s video-work on ice meltwater in Antarctica.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Eco-poetics is a term we are using in its broadest sense, to include visual and performance art as well as writing that pays attention to the relationship between nature and culture, language and perception* – which precisely is what Nancy Campbell’s recent collection, Disko Bay, achieves. On the day, we intend to explore the term itself, to study some examples of recent eco-poetic work, and have some time for your own making, moving or writing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">All welcome.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">We have 12 places for the workshop and an additional 10 places for the poetry reading and discussion. Both events will take place at VERT Institute in Laughton, near Lewes, East Sussex.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Workshop + reading/discussion - £60 to include vegan lunch.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Reading/discussion only - £10 </span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Earlybird discounts: if you book your place by Friday 7th April prices reduced to £55 / £8</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">To book your place, please email kaysyrad@chrisdrury.co.uk</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: x-small;">*phrasing taken from Redstart: An Ecological Poetics, Forrest Gander & John Kinsella (2012)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/">www.kaysyrad.co.uk</a> </span><a href="http://www.clarewhistler.co.uk/">www.clarewhistler.co.uk</a><br />
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<br />Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-65012143296423823022016-12-05T03:27:00.000-08:002016-12-05T03:27:20.560-08:00BRIGHTON POEM-A-THON - Sunday 11th December<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">Seasonal greetings! This Sunday </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">I shall be one of 60 poets (i</span><span style="text-align: left;">ncluding Grace Nichols, Sarah Howe & Sasha Dugdale) </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">raising funds for the Refugee Council. Take a look at our Just Giving page: </span><a href="https://www.justgiving.com/teams/brightonpoemathon" style="text-align: left;">https://www.justgiving.com/teams/brightonpoemathon</a><span style="text-align: left;">. Please come and support us </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">( I'm reading at</span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">6.50pm). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, apologies for the long blog silence. I have been in Australia, USA and South Korea this year, accompanying Chris on three major art projects (see his website <a href="http://chrisdrury.co.uk/">http://chrisdrury.co.uk/</a>.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">But we're back now and working on a new spring programme for VERT Institute (watch this space) <a href="http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/vert-institute.php">http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/vert-institute.php</a> and trying to make sense of the new (or one might say, now-illuminated) political landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am also reading my poetry at the Needlewriters, Lewes, on </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Thursday 12th January:</span></span><br />
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at the Needlemakers Café, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Matthew De Abaitua
(prose) </span></i><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Kay Syrad (poetry) </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Colin Bell
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<span style="color: red; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.needlewriters.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: large;">www.needlewriters.co.uk</span></a></span></div>
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Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-17943325251708015872016-05-10T23:12:00.000-07:002016-05-10T23:12:27.163-07:00NEWS...<br />
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I shall be one of the featured poets reading at Perth Poetry Club,<br />
Western Australia, on <b>Saturday 11th June, 2-4pm</b></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e;"> </span><a href="http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/" style="text-align: center;">http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/</a></div>
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<b>EXCHANGE - Chris Drury & Kay Syrad</b><br />
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<i>Exchange, </i>the exhibition based on our Cape Farewell rural residency, will be shown at Schumacher College, Dartington, during the Symposium on Language, Landscape and the Sublime,</div>
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<b>29-30th June 2016</b> </div>
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<a href="https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/events/symposium-language-landscape">https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/events/symposium-language-landscape</a></div>
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<b>VERT INSTITUTE</b><br />
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<b>The next VERT event will take place on Saturday </b><br />
<b>3rd September, </b><b>details to follow.</b><br />
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Further <b>poetry reading</b>s at Poetry in the Crypt,<br />
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Islington, <span style="text-align: center;">London, </span><b style="text-align: center;">November 2016 </b><span style="text-align: center;">(date tbc) </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PoetryInTheCrypt/timeline" style="text-align: center;">https://www.facebook.com/PoetryInTheCrypt/timeline</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e;"><a href="http://mikeb-b.blogspot.com.au/#pinc">http://mikeb-b.blogspot.com.au/#pinc</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and also at the Needlewriters' Cafe in Lewes on <b>12 January 2017</b></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e;"><a href="http://www.needlewriters.co.uk/#/home/4539813577">http://www.needlewriters.co.uk</a></span></div>
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Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-66502241852637851972015-10-01T05:06:00.002-07:002015-10-01T05:06:54.059-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Vert Institute,</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton, near Lewes. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative ideas and experience of poet-novelist Kay Syrad and world-renowned land artist Chris Drury. Events and workshops will be offered at various points throughout the year, always with a basis in ideas about and embodied experience of inside|outside, microcosm| macrocosm, and nature|culture. The programme may include walks and opportunities for making work outside, small exhibitions, talks and performances, and a variety of writing workshops. </span></span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Winter Programme</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Making a journal</span></div>
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jurnal diurnal <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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both writers and artists, this course will explore the ritual of making a
journal, which could be anything from writing haiku at 5pm each weekday to
gathering an object every day for a year. We will start with an afternoon
looking at an exciting range of historical and contemporary journals, and then
meet more or less fortnightly between November and March, continuing to explore
different styles and forms whilst supporting you in starting and sustaining
your own winter journal. All welcome.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Introductory session:
Sunday 1<sup>st</sup> November 2.30 - 6.30pm </b></span></span><b style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </b></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><b>15/29<sup>th</sup>
November; 13<sup>th</sup> December; 10/24<sup>th</sup> January; 7<sup>th</sup>/21<sup>st</sup>
February; </b></span></span><b style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">6<sup>th</sup> March</b></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><b>With Guest Speakers on
15<sup>th</sup> November & 21<sup>st</sup> February<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><b>Cost for all 9 sessions:
£130 Contact Kay via website www.kaysyrad.co.uk<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<br />Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-60934411205641977912015-09-13T09:40:00.000-07:002015-09-13T09:40:08.230-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt; text-align: center;">Vert Institute</span></div>
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writing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Drury<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">An experimental writing workshop<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">The workshop, led by Kay for poets or
prose writers is designed to encourage free, clear writing by drawing on a
study of ritual in creative practice by visual anthropologist, Amanda Ravetz,
and the work of Swiss/Latin American artist Mira Schendel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Saturday, 26<sup>th</sup> September 2.15 – 5.00pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Contact Kay via her website </span></span><a href="http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.kaysyrad.co.uk</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Making a journal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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jurnal diurnal <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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both writers and artists, this course will explore the ritual of making a
journal, which could be anything from writing haiku at 5pm each weekday to
gathering an object every day for a year. We will start with an afternoon
looking at an exciting range of historical and contemporary journals, and then
meet more or less fortnightly between November and March, continuing to explore
different styles and forms whilst supporting you in starting and sustaining
your own winter journal.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2.30 - 6.30pm </span></span><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">then 8 sessions on Sundays, 4.00 – 6.30pm <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">15/29<sup>th</sup> November; 13<sup>th</sup>
December; 10/24<sup>th</sup> January; 7<sup>th</sup>/21<sup>st</sup> February;
6<sup>th</sup> March<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Early bird payment by 1</span><sup style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> October: £120</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Contact Kay via her website </span></span><a href="http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.kaysyrad.co.uk</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and to book your place.</span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton. The aim
of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and
workshops based on the creative ideas and experience of poet-novelist Kay Syrad
and world-renowned land artist Chris Drury.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of inside|outside, microcosm| macrocosm, and nature|culture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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making work outside, small exhibitions, talks and performances, and a variety of
writing workshops. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-66780749227961775342015-06-18T05:09:00.000-07:002015-06-18T05:09:12.639-07:00EXCHANGE - a new book by Kay Syrad & Chris DruryGreetings! Here is news of our new book and exhibition based on our Cape Farewell residency on three farms in Dorset:<br />
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Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-32097262747111254252015-02-01T10:11:00.000-08:002015-02-01T10:11:01.770-08:001000 tasks: work of the lightshipmen <br />
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Please come to the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sunday<br />
15th February for the 'Dear Serge' day, featuring an exhibition of<br />
<b>1000 tasks: work of the lightshipmen</b>, my artist's book created<br />
for the multi-media project <b>Last Station</b>, with installations by<br />
lead artists Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge, plus two human<br />
fog-horning worshops and two performances of our choral work,<br />
<b>The Light Vessel</b>, composed by the renowned saxophonist<br />
Trevor Watts, with my libretto. See you there. <br />
See <a href="http://www.dlwp.com/event/dear-serge1">http://www.dlwp.com/event/dear-serge1</a> and scroll down.<br />
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Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-70198990057672009262014-05-15T03:04:00.002-07:002014-05-15T03:04:55.787-07:00Last Station stops at National Maritime Museum The National Maritime has bought a copy of the book <b>'work of the lightship men: 1000 tasks</b>' that I created for the project Last Station (with lead artists Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge, see <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Station-locateddislocated/107472156092970">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Station-locateddislocated/107472156092970</a>) for their permanent collection. <br />
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<br />Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338216181955182200.post-47821020024877060282014-03-25T11:30:00.002-07:002014-03-25T11:30:18.617-07:00Kay Syrad in Telling Stories Exhibition at Kaleidoscope Gallery & Reading Poetry at Lauderdale HouseTelling Stories #2 runs from 4 April - 31 May at Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery. I've collaborated with artist and performer Clare Whistler to create a piece inspired by Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic support of more than 2,500 libraries in the late 19th and early 20th century, including one at Sevenoaks. Private view, 4 April, 6-8pm. <a href="http://www.tellingstories.info/">www.tellingstories.info</a><br />
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On Wednesday, 23 April I shall be reading poetry at Lauderdale House in north London, along with poets Giles Goodland, Sarah Howe, Hannah Lowe and Vidyan Ravinthiran.<br />
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The reading, hosted by Shanta Acharya, starts at 8pm. Tickets £5 (£3 concs). Lauderdale House is at Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG. Kay Syradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14286245509665505348noreply@blogger.com0