The Other Room 24
This event on 7th June 2011 at 18:00 has past.
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A very special performance by Yorkshire-born Steve Mc Caffery, an acclaimed poet and writer in his own right, and a founding member of the legendary sound-poetry group The Four Horsemen. This will be the first time that Mc Caffery, who is now based in New York, has performed to a Yorkshire audience, despite the fact he grew up in Barnsley and lived in the region until he moved to Toronto, Canada in 1968. This is and a unique opportunity to see an artist whose work and critical writing continues to inform artistic practice of all kinds.
Mc Caffery's performance is part of an evening of readings by other remarkable writers, organised by The Other Room and Information as Material. The programme includes performances by Zambian born Karen Mac Cormack, a New York based poet who, like Mc Caffery, emerged as a key figure in Canadian poetry and was a peer of the American avant-garde Language Poets; and the Sheffield-based poets Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk, both widely respected for their ongoing contribution to writing and publishing. All four performers are connected to one and other by publishing collaborations that extend across the Atlantic, and demonstrate the international context in which writers across the North of England are working today.
This free event will take place at 6pm on 07 June 2011, in the Tiled Hall at Leeds Art Gallery. Booking for the event is advised. For more information about the event, and to book your place, please visit www.otherroom.org.
Entry: Free
Time: 6:00pm
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