Weekend course on collaboration.

Venue: Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Date: Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 July
Time: 1 – 6pm, plus 7.30pm performance on Sunday
Level: open to all

Camarade readings are the primary collaborative poetry events of the Enemies project, and have taken place 21 countries with over 150 events with over 500 poets and artists since 2012.

The Poetry School Camarade – Sunday July 17th
Venue 1: Rich Mix Arts Centre – 7.30pm – Free Entrance
Alex MacDonald & Mark Waldron / Tamar Yoseloff & Alison Gill / John Canfield & Joe Turrent / Rishi Dastidar & Ali Lewis / Ella Frears & Lavinia Singer / SJ Fowler and more.

Saturday’s July 16th 2016 workshop
1pm – Introduction to the possible methods of collaboration in poetry and text.
2.30pm – Facilitated group writing exercises and practise performances.
3.30pm – Facilitated breakout sessions for collaborations in pairs.
5pm – Group discussion on the process, final pairs confirmed and feedback.

Featuring a discussion of the philosophies behind collaborative writing, the diffusion of the poet’s identity in collaboration and the consequences of that for solo writing. Extended explorations of the notion of the reading versus the performance, group writing, conceptual writing, constraint writing, improvisation and more literary methods like line-to-line and stanza-to-stanza. Features both talks, discussions and exercises.

Sunday’s July 17th workshop
1pm – The history of collaboration in poetry featuring source materials provided to the participants, covering a selection of salient examples from 20th century poetry, including movements like the Surrealists, CoBrA, The Beats and assorted examples from the likes of Ian Hamilton Finlay and John Furnival, Ron King and Roy Fisher, Anne Waldman and Joe Brainard.
2.30pm – An analysis of a host of collaborative performances from The Enemies Project video archive with footage screening and discussion.
4pm – Facilitated rehearsal of group collaborations and final paired works, with feedback.

More here.

May 2nd, 6pm, at Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA. Free.

To celebrate the ten year anniversary of Rich Mix a special celebratory Camarade event will bring together some of the best known pairs from the series, all of whom had their debut at Rich Mix, alongside some brand new commissioned pairs of young and established poets, invited especially for the night. Featuring:

Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne
Carol Watts & George Szirtes
Mark Waldron & Rebecca Perry
Prudence Chamberlain & Eley Williams
Giovanna Coppola & Clover Peake
Mischa Foster Poole & Chrissy Williams
Julia Lewis & Harry Man
Tasimbaradzwa Kanyangarara & Susie Campbell
Rachel Long & Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Farhana Khatun & Francine Elena
Kathryn Maris & Amy Key
SJ Fowler & more.

Saturday 23rd April , 7.30pm: Venue Two, Rich Mix Arts Centre, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA.

In a unique collaborative poetry event, the University Camarade will present over 10 new collaborative works, premiered on the night, written by pairs of young poets, all of whom are undertaking study in Creative Writing departments at five different UK Universities.

University of Kingston, Glasgow, Edge Hill, York St John and East Anglia will come together, each represented by 4 students. With participants made up purely of the student body and not staff, the collaborations will take place across institutions. The University Camarade aims to bring together the future poets and writers in the UK and show cross institution collaboration as a valuable way of building a community of writers.

For more information, including a list of participants, see here.

October 26th 2013 , 2pm to 10pm ​​at the Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London.

The Camarade poetry festival is a unique and unforgettable one day explosion of dynamic collaboration in contemporary avant garde and literary poetics. 100 poets align in 50 pairs, each writing an original collaborative work, written specifically for the festival and premiered on the day. The 5th Camarade event, and the crescendo of the Enemies project’s first year, this ambitious exploration of the possibilities of collaboration in poetry will evidence the true width and depth of poetry that is happening now.

2pm – Session 1

Avant garde poetry lends itself to collaboration as language does conversation. This Bristol edition of the Camarade series (previously at London’s Rich Mix and Manchester’s Cornerhouse venues) brings together pairs of formidable and innovative literary poets and art writers to create original, dynamic works for performance. Featuring brand new experiments in form from seven pairings of poets.

James Wilkes & David Berridge
Jeff Hilson & Marcus Slease
Mark Waldron & Tim Atkins
Patrick Coyle & SJ Fowler
Holly Pester & Emma Bennett
Daniel Rourke & Claire Potter
Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks

This is the 6th in the Camarade series and comes with the sub-heading ‘Enemies of the South’ – part of the Enemies project which is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Arts Council England. More here.