Poetry & Spoken Word
Showing 1 - 20 of 316 events
Purcell Room
Ether Talk: Post Punk - Andy B
Thursday 16 April 2009
Thursday 16 April 2009
13010
With David Byrne headlining Ether 09, writer, critic and music fan Sukhdev Sandhu discusses the musical and aesthetic legacy of the post-punk years.
Weston Pavilion
Ether Talk: Post Punk - Andy B
Thursday 16 April 2009
Thursday 16 April 2009
13043
With David Byrne headlining Ether 09, writer, critic and music fan Sukhdev Sandhu discusses the musical and aesthetic legacy of the post-punk years.
Purcell Room
Ether Talk: Touch
Monday 20 April 2009
Monday 20 April 2009
13013
Touch artists Christian Fennesz, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Rosy Parlane open up about their musical journeys, their future aspirations and the complex sounds and compostions which have made their name.
Purcell Room
Ether Talk: Heiner Goebbels
Friday 24 April 2009
Friday 24 April 2009
13011
Heiner Goebbels discusses the creation of Songs of Wars I Have Seen and Sampler Suite from Surrogate Cities ahead of the performance of this haunting work in Queen Elizabeth Hall at 7.
Purcell Room
Ether Talk: Rob da Bank
Friday 24 April 2009
Friday 24 April 2009
13012
Music festivals are an essential part of the British summertime, moving beyond youth culture to embrace the mainstream.
Purcell Room
Andrew Motion
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Advanced Booking | Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
12999
As Andrew Motion's time as Poet Laureate draws to a close, he reflects on the role, its opportunities and the profile of poetry today.
Purcell Room
Congo Now: Tim Butcher, Marie
Thursday 7 May 2009
Thursday 7 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | African Dance | Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
13112
Hosted by politician and broadcaster Oona King, the evening features Congolese talent and British artists inspired by the country - writers, poets, musicians and visual artists.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
F8: Roger Robinson, Niall O'Su
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Literature April – June 09
13118
To mark their eighth year of operation, flipped eye publishing is hosting a special gala night featuring, for the first time ever, their own live band, the l'8 quartet alongside some of their most celebrated poets, including Roger Robinson, Niall O'Sullivan, Malika Booker and Jacob Sam-La Rose.
The Clore Ballroom
Gluemouth
Wednesday 27 May 2009
Friday 29 May 2009
13202
Poetry sensation Laura Dockrill will perform some of her new poems for children in this unique family event.
The Front Room at QEH
The Trouble Tune Tonic: Part 1
Friday 29 May 2009
Friday 29 May 2009
Cross-artform | Electronic | Experimental | Free | Music | Spoken Word | Visual Arts | Music | Electronic | Concrete | Friday Tonic
13184
An exciting cross-fertilisation of two initiatives; trouble tune, which has been forging a new audience for electro-experimental music at Hayward Gallery's Concrete bar, and Friday Tonic, the highly popular weekly music strand in The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Hayward Gallery Concrete
The Trouble Tune Tonic: Part 2
Friday 29 May 2009
Friday 29 May 2009
Cross-artform | Electronic | Experimental | Free | Music | Spoken Word | Visual Arts | Music | Electronic | Concrete | Friday Tonic
13188
An exciting cross-fertilisation of two initiatives - Trouble Tune, which has been forging a new audience for electro-experimental music at Hayward Gallery's Concrete bar, and Friday Tonic, the highly popular weekly music strand in The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
The Front Room at QEH
The Trouble Tune Tonic: Part 3
Friday 29 May 2009
Friday 29 May 2009
Cross-artform | Electronic | Experimental | Free | Music | Spoken Word | Visual Arts | Music | Electronic | Concrete | Friday Tonic
13189
An exciting cross-fertilisation of two initiatives; trouble tune, which has been forging a new audience for electro-experimental music at Hayward Gallery's Concrete bar, and Friday Tonic, the highly popular weekly music strand in the Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 31 May 2009
Sunday 31 May 2009
Contemporary Classical | Music | Opera | Orchestral | Resident Artists | Music | Poetry | LPO 08/09
13048
The harsh consonants and abrupt syllables of Mein Herz brennt are deceptive in their labelling of music which is so bewitchingly beautiful.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Mark Padmore, tenor
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Wednesday 3 June 2009
13212
London premiere of Director Katie Mitchell’s staged adaptation One Evening.
E4 Udderbelly
PoeJazzi : Polarbear, Sound of
Monday 15 June 2009
Monday 15 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Literature & Spoken Word | Performance | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Udderbelly Festival
13242
PoeJazzi and guest host Scroobius Pip present a line-up hotter than lava: spoken word and music from some of the UK's finest poets and their bands.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13439
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Fred D'Aguiar 02/07
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13434
Poetry is often written and read at times of great emotional significance, and is perceived as the appropriate means of memorialising trauma.
Purcell Room
Global Village
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13372
Short stories and music entwine to produce a night of international storytelling by writers from The Tell Tales family.
Southbank Centre Square
The Wedding or The Rime of the
Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
Children & Family | Dance & Performance | Dance & Performance | Family | Folk | Free | Free Family and Children | Poetry | Resident Artists | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09
13424
Storms and icebergs.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13445
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
