Greetings ! Please scroll down for details of three events.
POETRY IN
THE CRYPT
St Mary’s Church, Upper Street, Islington
Saturday 22nd
April, 7 p.m.
Donald
Atkinson, Lynne
Hjelmgaard & Kay
Syrad
Admission £5 • Poets from the floor welcome • Free cakes & coffee!
All proceeds to Hospice Care Kenya www.hospicecarekenya.com
St
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: nmattson@sampo.plus.com
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE
22 April - 3 June
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.
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.
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.
SUPPORTING EVENTS
ARTISTS’ TALK WITH VANESSA REID Saturday 29 Apr, 2pm, FREE
FARMERS QUESTION TIME Thursday 11 May, 7pm, £5
FILM: ‘COMRADES’ BY BILL DOUGLAS Sunday 14 May, 7.30pm, £6/£5/£4/£3
‘A FIELD OF WHEAT’
TALK & COMMUNAL MEAL Thursday 25 May, 6pm, £5
TALK & COMMUNAL MEAL Thursday 25 May, 6pm, £5
https://www.bridport-arts.com/events/cape-farwell/
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Vert Institute
for art events and
writing
Kay Syrad & Chris
Drury
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ECO-POETICS
WORKSHOP
with
poetry reading by Nancy Campbell
&
discussion with Chris Drury
Saturday
6 May
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.
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. All welcome.
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.
Workshop
+ reading/discussion - £60 to include vegan lunch.
Reading/discussion
only - £10
Earlybird
discounts: if you book your place by Friday 7th
April prices reduced to £55 / £8
*phrasing
taken from Redstart: An Ecological
Poetics, Forrest Gander & John Kinsella (2012)
