RE: "Versing the damage"
Thursday January 18th
'The Vaults': St Mary's University Church
Oxford
7 - 9 pm
Bill McKibben (author of The End of Nature) recently claimed that artists are ignoring climate change. This promted Steve Larkin (one of the founders of Hammer and Tongue) and a spoken word artist who has had climate change as one of the central themes of his work to find evidence to the contrary.
Having been involved with the development of a thriving live literature scene in the UK, witnessing the work of other writers with similar themes he emailed as many artists as he could with an email entitled "Versing the damage" asking for examples of work that tackles the issue.
The result has been an inbox full of replies titled "Re: Versing the damage" and a vast array of songs and poetry from artists all over the world, a selection of which will be presented by performers as part of the COIN speaker series event on January the 18th.
Entry to the event will be on a first come first served basis. £3/£2 7-9pm. The Vaults and Garden is an organic fair trade cafe in the heart of Oxford City underneath St Mary's University Church on the High Street opposite Quad.
3 comments:
just find this place by chance. have to say ur content is wonderful and i really like it. do carry on with ur nice work!
Many thanks for that, Zachary. It can be a rather dreary long haul job, running an events listings website like this, so your comments are much appreciated!
Jane
Hi Jane,
I love your site. I am a poet and friend of Sean Kelly, and also run a poetry website called Oliver's Poetry which has a blog and new poetry every week. It features quite a few performance poets such as Sean and Spoz.
Would you swap links, and better still contribute a poem to the site and mention it in your excellent site please?
Oliver's Poetry is at:
http://www.oliverspotry.com
Best regards, Oliver
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