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House of Hysteria

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House of Hysteria presents –
Dec0rative D0rmit0ries f0r Sleep W0rkers 

Exhibition open:

29.4.17 – 21.5.17
Sat. – Sun. 12:00 – 18:00

Private view:

Thursday April 27th, 19:00 – 21:00

House 0f Hysteria with Ami Clarke, Kirsten Cooke, Annabel Frearson, Dale Holmes, 0rphan Drift, Michael Iveson, Tina Jenkins, Sharon Kivland, Mark Nader and Nicola Woodham

Performances:

27.04.17 Opening Event | 19:00 – 21:00:

Ami Clarke will be reading from her on-going script: Error-Correction: an introduction to future diagrams – take 7.3582701: code for the numbers to come with Low Animal Spirits (2017) an HFT algo dealing in world news by Ami Clarke and Richard Cochrane.

20.05.17 Closing Event | 19:00 – 21:00:

Sharon Kivland turns over the record of her work titled, To Dream by the Book, read by a hundred readers (2017), a work that lasts for forty minutes.

Nicola Woodham performs Garg (2017) a shapeshifting vocal ritual.

LINK

English PEN Modern Literature Festival – films

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The second English PEN Modern Literature Festival, curated by SJ Fowler’s Enemies Project, saw 30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world at Rich Mix, London, on April 1st 2017. This film is of Hannah Silva, performing her piece for Narges Mohammadi. The rest of the films, more about the event and details of the important work of PEN can be found here.

The Secret of Good Posture: A Physical Therapist’s Perspective on Freedom

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Paul Hawkins | Bruno Neiva

Team Trident Press

Book launch + performance, by Bruno Neiva

Café Candelabro, Porto

Thursday, 9th March 2017, 19h30

The Secret of Good Posture: A Physical Therapist’s Perspective on Freedom is a 14-page altered pamphlet that depicts the relationship between twenty first century freedom and personal postures. Several processes have been employed in the making, such as détournement and Oulipian constraints. Available in 2 versions. Recommended to be used in stereo (both pamphlets) for best results. Includes easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions.

Links:

http://www.teamtrident.bigcartel.com/product/the-secret-of-good-posture

https://thecontemporarysmallpress.com/2017/01/06/freedom-of-movement/

http://brunoneiva.weebly.com/the-secret-of-good-posture-a-physical-therapistrsquos-perspective-on-freedom.html

http://www.hesterglock.net/the-secret-of-good-posture.html

https://vimeo.com/192550319

The University Caramarade: films

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On 25th February, students from the Creative Writing departments of Kingston University, Oxford Brookes, York St John, Kent, Essex, York and Royal Holloway presented a dozen brand new works on a remarkable, energetic night of poetry showcasing some of the most interesting young poets in the UK. Full details and films of all performances, including this by Abigail J. Villarroel and Carole Webster, can be found at the Enemies site.

Amy McCauley: a preview

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Amy McCauley will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 21st February at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE. 7 PM start, free entry as always. The other performers are Steven Hitchins and Bryony Bates.

Amy McCauley lives in Manchester. Her current projects include: a book of poetry which re-imagines the Oedipus myth (Oedipa), a book of essays on language, violence and desire (Propositions) and a book of dialogues about Joan of Arc (CaNToS of JoaN). Amy works as poetry editor for New Welsh Review and is the recipient of a 2016 Northern Writers’ Award for poetry. She occasionally writes under the pseudonym ‘Kathy Groan.’ You can find out more about her work at http://mccauliana.weebly.com/, plus at Junction Box and the Stockholm Review.

Pedicure by Tom Betteridge from Sine Wave Peak

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P E D I C U R E

a new book of poems by Tom Betteridge
published by Sine Wave Peak
January 2017

“Pedicure remains a pleasure, read at any speed or hovered over. Filtered through a fairy feller’s garden of delights, music layers merge as language zooms through thought to focus bracketed by timed description. Pages twitch body pollen mist to drift across purls in wine. All this under a Gulley Jimson foot: on record, grateful.”
– Tom Raworth
hand-sewn paperback with French folds and a foil-embossed cover, edition of 250

Bryony Bates: a preview

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Bryony Bates will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 21st February at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE. 7 PM start, free entry as always. The other performers are Steven Hitchins and Amy McCauley.

Bryony Bates lives in Manchester and mostly writes poetry. She was 2014/15 Writer in Residence for Archives+ at Manchester Central Library, and has been published in Sure Hope, Ladybeard Magazine, and Spoke: A New Queer Anthology from Dog Horn Press. She is a member of the writing collective Young Enigma, as well as Contact Theatre’s Young Company.