The Saboteur Literary Awards are fast approaching! This is a great opportunity for smaller presses, more diverse writings and experimental literary projects to get some much-needed attention. The shortlist is decided by public vote, so your nomination really matters. www.saboteurawards.org We would love you to nominate Abi Palmer’s micro-immersive poetry project ‘Alchemy’ for the category […]
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Pleased to share with you the first 5 sessions from some of our favourite spoken word artists. Filmed over the course of one evening, these videos capture select poems from Tim Knight, Nikki Marrone and Uppahar ‘Ups’ Subba. Playlist Tim Knight ‘Saturn V’ 4:03 Tim Knight ‘Two Lessons’ 2:35 Uppahar Subba ‘Darjeeling’ 3:39 Nikki Marrone ‘Knowledge is Power’ […]
Shadowplay is a live literature experiment in sensory deprivation. Suspended in a dark auditorium, the audience are alone save for white words projected into the pitch black canvas. Around them a soundtrack emerges, scoring urgent scenes told in broken staccato sentences. It is a story about the power of language to make reality and, inevitably, undo it. […]
‘Mind the black cat sleeping in the beauty spot gap, shut the heavy door on this World’s Fair, and forget the ten-to-ten Grantham rain cocktails in Coach H wear of where else tonight. Baby, if I’m awake much longer than I may as well evaporate.’ This limited edition, pre-packed collection of self published poetry comes […]
Time Now For Ghosts is a minimalist performance & sound piece in three movements, written for one dancer and one musician. It is site-specific, utilizing the audience’s interaction with the space to form generative audio loops played back in real time. The environment this creates forms the stage upon which the performance plays out; the […]
Interview: Factories and Fields It’s only February, and already 2015 is shaping up to be a stellar year for live music in Cambridge. We’ve got the likes of Marika Hackman, Courtney Barnett and Funeral For A Friend coming through later this year, and January saw a stunning show headlined by These Ghosts – a full-on […]