Holdin Our Ground
This event on 15th May 2009 at 20:00 has past.
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In an age when we can gaze at a screen and be anywhere, or not care where we are as long our sat-nav's working, it's becoming harder - and more important - to really know our place.
As part of our ongoing project My Place Or Yours, Rukus – the most up-for-it MC in the Midlands –has been undertaking a writing residency on the streets of Derby, digging deep and discovering just
what it is that binds a place and its people. Tonight he’ll be previewing some of his work.
The wild and wonderful Mark Gwynne Jones, meanwhile, will be presenting Whose Common Now?, a specially commissioned poem-sequence that celebrates London’s parkland whilst pondering the extent to which the public really owns so-called public places. In addition, we’ve got London Transport Museum’s poet-in-residence Abraham Gibson and sometime BBC playwright Nandita Ghose adding their own sidelong take on what it means to be a Londoner (or not). And finally, there’ll be some placey post-punk chanson from Sussex songthrush Pog.
A truly topographical treat, we think you’ll agree.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY APPLES & SNAKES – ON YOUR DOORSTEP, COAST TO COAST, AND ALWAYS WHERE IT’S AT.
WHOOSE COMMON NOW? was originally commissioned by Gunpowder Parks
Entry: £8/£5 (Free if you're under 26)
Time: 8:00pm
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