tag: Poetry

network

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Location @ Dana Center: 
D-lounge
Date(s): 
Thu 10 11:00 AM - Fri 11 5:00 PM
Host: 
Mark Dixon
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As part of the Enter¬¬¬ Unknown territories festival and conference, Cambridge,
Mark Dixon developed a major site-specific installation for the domes on Parker's Piece. He explored the visualisation of the wireless information that surrounds us but is rarely acknowledged. Using 3000 wireless detectors and 6000 ultra bright LEDs Dixon created a work that visibly responded to mobile phone use in a public environment. Each day, workshop participants were actively encouraged to hack and to add to the lighting array that was visible all through the night. On the last day of the Festival the Network was broken down and handed out to festival goers and distributed throughout the city. A short movie of this ephemeral artwork will be available at Mark Dixon

Biography: 

About Mark Dixon
His work is typically experimental and often collaborative. Over the past 5 years it has involved combining art and technology and has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. He has used various processes such as high voltage static electricity and ink, or wireless cameras and projection equipment to record the demolition of buildings from within. During 2005 he worked with Commissions East on site specific installations at the Great Eastern Hotel in London as part of the Arts Council Escalator program. Since then he has had commissions and residencies with Wysing Arts Centre, The Technology Partnership, Commissions East and Arts Council England and started using LEDs triggered by mobile phones. This was developed further in a permanent public commission for Grafton House, Ipswich, installed in early 2007.

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slub

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Wed 9 9:45 PM - Wed 9 10:30 PM
Host: 
slub
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visual and textual algorithms meet to make beautiful earbleed gabba. slub have been making people dance to their software across Europe since the year 2000.

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slub are three computer programmers from London, UK. They improvise music by writing software with dynamic languages in handmade development environments.

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RichardRichard

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 10:00 PM
teaser: 
notes scrawled in thick dust lying on the kitchen floor scared to move scared to live lying on the kitchen floor
Host: 
RichardRichard
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notes scrawled in thick dust
lying on the kitchen floor
scared to move
scared to live
lying on the kitchen floor

Biography: 

Email: lrlarue@hotmail.co.uk
URL: www.myspace.com/ronnieisgood
Female
35 years old
United Kingdom

James Kettle

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
teaser: 
the best thing to come out of oxford since morse he is desperately angry – but very good weaving stories like so many oversized morrissey-faced spiders he doesn’t have much luck with 'the women'
Host: 
James Kettle
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James Kettle
the best thing to come out of oxford since morse he is desperately angry – but very good weaving stories like so many oversized morrissey-faced spiders he doesn’t have much luck with 'the women'

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"self-mutilating misanthrope and bon viveur"

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James Kettle

Beulah Benadam

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
teaser: 
Beulah Benadam
Host: 
Beulah Benadam
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Images: about images she says: I do not normally do them

Biography: 

Beulah Benadam is an unpublished writer - poetry, song, prose,
and playwright. She has been doing open mic and charitable gigs
on/off for years and even fulfilled a yearlong acting contract a few
years ago. Beulah is a Social Scientist by qualification and a
social engineer in practice. Currently officially unemployed (still
doing voluntary stuff) Beulah does spoken word/poetry, voice,
sing, dance, silence...She performs. She acts

Peter Alexander

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
teaser: 
Peter Alexander
Host: 
Peter Alexander
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penertrating your ears
producing poiniant parables
percluding to a painful future
providing poetic pleasure pleasntly
peter alexander punk poet

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Peter Alexander
lives in the Greenfield road

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Peter Alexander

Guy Jackson

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
teaser: 
Guy Jackson
Host: 
Guy Jackson
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Storyteller USA

Biography: 

Guy Jackson is a writer, an actor, a storyteller, a humorist and
poet. Since recently coming to England from the US he has
guested in a variety of shows and poetry nights. His short
storybooks, done with various artists, have been made available at
Shoreditch’s bookartbookshop, and one storybook made it into an
art exhibit.
Jacksonville, Guy’s half-hour radio show of stories and idle chatter,
ran for thirteen weeks on Resonance Radio, 104.4 FM.
In the US Jackson wrote and performed a one-man storytelling
show and worked as a play write. Eight of his plays made it into
production in Chicago. He also penned a humour column for a
newspaper in Oregon, and his short stories have appeared in
numerous literary magazines. Living in San Francisco from 2004 to
2006 he incessantly performed his short stories in countless
venues. Also in San Francisco he produced his original storytelling
CD entitled The Filthy Pilgrim.

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Guy Jackson

Ronie McGrath

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
teaser: 
Ronie McGrath
Host: 
Ronie McGrath
Detailed text: 

Surreal

Biography: 

A renaissance man of his time, Ronnie McGrath is a founder
member of the now defunct musical group The London Afro Blok,
who performed for the Queen and opened the 1994
Commonwealth Games in British Columbia, Canada. Author of the
word of mouth best-selling novel, On The Verge Of Losing iT,
ankhademia press 2005, he is also published in IC3, The Penguin
Book Of New Black Writing In Britain.
A graduate of Manchester University’s MA in Novel Writing, he is
working on his second novel, Satchmo’s Lips. Ronnie is near
completing a collection of his poetry for the Tall-Light-House Press,
due to be published in 2007. As well as promoting his writing on
BBC London’s Word for Word literary programme, Ronnie has
appeared on various radio shows. A writer in residence at The
University Of The Arts, Ronnie has just published a special feature
on the African American poet Audre Lorde, for the international,
leading Black literary journal SABLE. He has also published his
poetry in Calabash journal for Black and Asian writers, and
contributed to the BBC 4 television documentary West Indian Front
Room - March 2007.

John Jazzman

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
teaser: 
John Jazzman
Host: 
John Jazzman
Detailed text: 

Jazzy

Biography: 

JC-JAZZMAN is renowned on the London performance scene for
both his passionate readings & frequent collaborations with a
variety of musicians. His work is heavily inspired by “The Beats”
and comes with the complex rhythms of his jazz muses held to the
fore.
John’s current projects (apart from promoting his book & CD)
include fronting as a vocalist in a band called “Swing it”. He also is
part of two other unnamed trios featuring John on vocals with drum
and saxophone accompaniment.

A quote from ‘Brixtongue’ “Uses words the way Coltrane used the
horn”

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John Jazzman

Noel Macken

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Location @ Dana Center: 
café
Date(s): 
Thu 10 9:00 PM - Thu 10 11:00 PM
Host: 
Noel Macken
Detailed text: 

Surreal

Biography: 

An opportunity to catch the Social Surrealistic Psychotic Performance Poetry of the crazy Grazy Noel. Orchestrated with choreographed balletic movement. The spectacle gentle on the eyes, tender on the ears but guarantees to contort the brain. Grazy Noel has been on London's Performance Poetry scene for some years now. Grazy is a regular guest on The Foundry's "Late, Late Breakfast Show", broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM. Grazy has also written three plays, "Le Cirque Trilogy", also broadcast on Resonance and currently part of the Montreal pre-fringe Theatre Festival

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Noel Macken
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