Spoken Word
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Purcell Room
Ether Talk: Post Punk - Andy B
Thursday 16 April 2009
Thursday 16 April 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Music festivals are an essential part of the British summertime, moving beyond youth culture to embrace the mainstream.
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
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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
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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
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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.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Mark Padmore, tenor
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Wednesday 3 June 2009
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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.
The Front Room at QEH
Fresh Off The Page: Mashing th
Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
Free | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Music on Site | Next Big Thing | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09
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The first of three Fresh Off The Page events in the London Literature Festival platforming some of the most exciting emerging and established talent across the spoken word and music scenes.
The Front Room at QEH
Fresh Off The Page: Where To?
Friday 10 July 2009
Friday 10 July 2009
Free | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Music on Site | Next Big Thing | Spoken Word | Visual Arts | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Friday Tonic
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Curated by Southbank Centre's team of young curators, Where To? promises a high-energy mixed bill event of live music, spoken word and visual art, responding to escape and its destinations, and inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah who is performing later the same evening.
The Front Room at QEH
Fresh Off The Page: Ugly Shy G
Saturday 11 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Free | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09
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The party continues in The Front Room, with a post-show cabaret of fresh talent programmed in collaboration with Laura Dockrill and Kate Nash, and featuring entertainment from MC Angel and Kandice, dancing, spectacular conversation and a book signing.
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The Clore Ballroom
National Poetry Day Live!
Thursday 8 October 2009
Thursday 8 October 2009
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Free
Celebrate National Poetry Day, with an afternoon devoted to our poetic heroes and heroines.
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The Front Room at QEH
Sarah Sayeed & Zena Edwards
Friday 23 October 2009
Friday 23 October 2009
Free | Music | Spoken Word | Urban | Music | Rock & Pop | Friday Tonic
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Free
A special double bill in anticipation of the b.young b.supreme hiphop dance show in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring two of the UK's most exciting talents from the female music and spoken word scene.
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Purcell Room
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Saturday 31 October 2009
Saturday 31 October 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Urban | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Everything to Declare
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Distinguished Kenyan novelist and critic Ngugi Wa Thiong'o discusses the changing shapes of his past and present life as a writer in a keynote address delivered especially to celebrate the silver anniversary of 'Wasafiri'
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Purcell Room
Back to the Beginning with the Word
Saturday 31 October 2009
Saturday 31 October 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Urban | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Everything to Declare
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As a rousing finale to Wasafiri's 25th birthday, we return to the word. Hosted by Bernardine Evaristo, the rhythms of Fred D'Aguiar's Caribbean poetic is mixed with the Black British African vibes of Lizzy Dijeh, Nii Parkes, the soaring Indian verse of Sujata Bhatt and the sublime lyricism of Elaine Feinstein.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Not Shut Up
Thursday 5 November 2009
Thursday 5 November 2009
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An evening of stirring poetry and fiction readings from the 2009 winners of Koestler Awards for Art By Offenders.
