Intercapillary Places - Dec 13th

Nina Power & Redell Olsen

Beside an electric train, a tray of coal and Dawood's 'New Dream Machine Project' in the winter pavilion, join us at Parasol Unit for Intercapillary Places

Programme

Nina Power: 

A talk on the philosophy and control of public space

Redell Olsen:

London launch of 'Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel' (Subpress, 2012)

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW

Thurs 13th Dec

Drinks from 6.30pm, event begins at 7.00pm

Arrive early to view the retrospective of work by Jannis Kounellis as well as Shezad Dawood's 'New Dream Machine Project' in the winter pavilion

Tickets: £5/£4 conc

Free wine 

Biographical Notes

Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and is the author of 'One-Dimensional Woman' (Zer0 Books, 2009).

Redell Olsen's recent projects include films and texts for performance: ‘Bucolic Picnic (or, Toile de Jouy Camouflage)’ (2009), ‘Newe Booke of Copies’ (2009-10), 'SPRIGS and Spots' (2011-12) and the site-specific collaboration for film and performance "Lost Pool" (2010). Her previous publications include 'Book of the Fur' (rem press, 2000) and 'Secure Portable Space' (Reality Street, 2004). 'Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel' (2012) is just out from Subpress. She is a Reader in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. For more see: http://redellolsen.co.uk/wordpress/

Jannis Kounellis was part of the Arte Povera movement in Italy that emerged during the 1960s. On show at Parasol Unit will be works such as Untitled (Carboniera), 1967; Untitled (steel plate and braid),1969, on loan from Centre George Pompidou, Musée national d’art; Metamorphosis, 1984, and Untitled, 1977, an electric train moving on steel plates installed around one of the pillars of the gallery.

Tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone, email or online through Paypal - 

To book your ticket please contact Lucy Britton on lucy@parasol-unit.org / 020 7490 7373 ext. 20

Please book ahead as spaces in the gallery can fill up

To keep up to date on Places events follow @intercapillary 

More information on the Jannis Kounellis exhibition http://www.parasol-unit.org/jannis-kounellis

Intercapillary Places: https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/

The Other Room - 5th Dec, Manchester

The Blue Bus - 20th Nov

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 20th November

Allen Fisher & Tim Allen

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5/£3
7.30pm sharp

Small Publishers Fair - Readings - Saturday 17th Nov

Small Publishers Fair 2012
16th & 17th November 2012
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (11am to 7pm)

Readings Taking Place on Saturday 17th Nov:

2.00 Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway: Jennie Cole, Rachel Deakin, Annie Runkel, Juliet Troy, Emma Wootton & tba
3.00 Road Books: Judy Kravis launches ‘Flashes & Floaters’
3.30 seekers of lice & VerySmallKitchen launch: ‘Theatre of Objects’: Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, and tba
4.00 West House Books & Reality Street Editions: Geraldine Monk, Johan de Wit, Giles Goodland, Sean Pemberton & Robert Sheppard.
5.00 Equus Press:  Louis Armand & David Vichnar
5.30 Veer Books: Peter Larkin, Carol Watts, Doug Jones, William Rowe, Holly Pester, and Danny Hayward 

Feelings - Tommorrow (15th Nov)

FEELINGS
Thursday 15th November

An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poems:
Justin Katko
Elizabeth Guthrie
Edmund Hardy
Jon Melling

Film TBA

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp

Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London N16 7XB
8pm
£3

Department in Manchester - 27th Nov

 

Poetry /// from Department Press 

Please join Department Press at Kraak, Manchester on Tuesday 27 November from 7.30 pm to hear readings from Sarah Crewe, Andy Spragg, Gareth Twose and Rhys Trimble. 

Entry is free. 

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Sarah Crewe has recently co-edited Catechism: Poems For Pussy Riot. Her chapbook Aqua Rosa was released by erbacce earlier this year. She has a forthcoming chapbook, flick invicta, with Oystercatcher in 2013. She co-edits M58, an ezine for visual poetry, with Andrew Taylor. She has had work in Department, Otoliths, the Red Ceilings blog, erbacce and has work forthcoming in Tears In The Fence.  

Andrew Spragg is a poet, performer and critic. His books include The Fleetingest (Red Ceiling Press), Notes for Fatty Cakes (Anything Anymore Anywhere) and cut out (Department Press). He edits Infinite Editions, a blog that publishes free poetry postcards for download and distribution. 

Gareth Twose is currently organiser of Writers' Forum North.  Co-organiser of recent Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event.  Has recently had poems published in Sunfish, Depart, Assent, Litter web zine and 3 am (forthcoming).  Formerly a newspaper journalist. 

Rhys Trimble: welsh poet of degrees & cutter & perforce performer DEARHWCH, PRY-LLWYD BLAIDD-BLOEDDIWR rascal...Bilingual poet based in Bethesda, North Wales . Improvisor interested in medieval welsh DEAD language & bilingual poetry, music/poetry, collaborations, digital-art and avant POST garde writing practices. Editor of Ctrl+Alt+Del http://cad.theabsurd.co.uk Ezine and studying for a ‘psychomythogeographical’ PhD in creative writing. Stick banger, SHOUTYMAN. 

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http://departmentzine.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/events/472928599418299/

http://www.kraak.co/home/

HI ZERO - Mon 29th Oct, Brighton

Cinnamon Buns launch night - "Better Weird than Dead" - 4th Nov

 SUNDAY 4th NOVEMBER
BETTER WEIRD THAN DEAD

Cinnamon Buns Fanzine is a queer trans-faggy body positive zine and we love food, smoking hot babes, good music and dancing.

LIVE BANDS:
Halo Halo

Faggot
Left Leg

POETRY!!
Linus Slug
Nat Raha
E.A.V.E Ffrench

ARTWORK:
Cinnamon Buns Fanzine
Sina Sparrow

DJs:
DJ Zomboy & DJ Supercasio (Bad Reputation)
The Choo Choo Trains

Free Cinnamon Buns for the 50 first people, goodie bags, all the Cinnamon Buns Fanzine swag you can imagine and other surprises!!

Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper St, London N1 1RU
7.00pm - 1.00am
£4

Advanced tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/187869
http://cinnamonbunsfanzine.tumblr.com/

Cooke, Melville, Rowe, Birkbeck - 19th Oct

nick-e melville teleports from edinburgh to present an evening of fencing and duende with jennifer cooke and william rowe.
 
Friday 19th Oct
538 Birkbeck main building
7.30pm

donations for the poets are warmly encouraged.
and there will also be wine.

Feelings - Thursday 18th Oct

FEELINGS
An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poems:
Sean Bonney
Steve Willey
Rachael Allen
Sophie Robinson

Film:
Timothy Smith's 'Le Weekend'
Benjamin Sebastian

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp

Vogue Fabrics 66 Stoke Newington Road,  London N16 7XB
8pm
£3

XING THE LINE - Tonight!

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 17th October


Antony John
Andy Spragg
Juha Virtanen

The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
7.30pm
£5/£3

Poetry for Sonic Youth - 26th October

Poetry for Sonic Youth
Friday 26th October

Poems inspired by/featuring/giving the nod to Sonic Youth. Oversized stripey jumpers, doe eyed, swaying movements all welcome. General lo-fi vibes abound. Bring your Kotton Krown.

Poets include:

* Amy Key
* Nat Raha
* Godkin Mor
* Becky Cremin
* Chrissy Williams
* Tim Wells
* Chris McCabe
* Swithun Cooper
* Saradha Soobrayen
* Andra Simon
* Roddy Lumsden
* Francesca Lisette
* Michael Zand
* Marcus Slease
* Pascal O'Loughlin
* Sarah Crewe

plus others to be confirmed. 

Mascara Bar
7.30pm

72 Stamford Hill, London N16 6XS

The Blue Bus - Tuesday 16th Oct

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 16th October

Lee Harwood & Maurice Scully

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5/£3
7.30pm sharp

POLYply >21 - Thurs 11th Oct