Peter Gizzi Reading

Saturday 18th June, 7.30pm

You are invited to a night of short poetry readings, wine and celebration to mark the end of Peter Gizzi's residence as Judith E Wilson Fellow in Poetry.

• Ryan Dobran
• Ian Heames
• Simon Jarvis
• Justin Katko
• Laura Kilbride
• Rod Mengham
• Drew Milne
• Redell Olsen
• Neil Pattison
• Ian Patterson
• Peter Riley
• Luke Roberts

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Wine and light refreshments. All welcome.

The Second Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

Friday 1st - Saturday 2nd July

Featuring:

• Jean-Michel Espitallier
• Laura Gadsden
• Judith Goldman
• Milli Graffi
• Simon Jarvis
• Tom Leonard
• Joe Luna
• Peter Manson
• David Marriott
• Rod Mengham
• Dell Olsen
• Ian Patterson
• Neil Pattison
• Reitha Pattison
• Simon Perril
• Nat Raha
• Tom Raworth
• Peter Riley
• Monika Rinck
• Linus Slug
• Timothy Thornton
• Adam Weg

The Nightingale Theatre, Grand Central, 29-30 Surrey Street, City Centre, Brighton

Admission:

• Weekend £20 / £15 (conc.)
• Afternoon/evening sessions £6 / £4 (conc.) per session

Contact Keston Sutherland or Sara Crangle.

Runnymede International Literary Festival: MA Poetic Practice - Ambient Work Readings

Saturday 12th March, 4 - 6pm

• Ian Patterson
• Emily Critchley
• Amy De'Ath
• Harry Gilonis
• Redell Olsen
• Ian Patterson
• Fiona Templeton

Big Room and Atrium, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, King's Cross WC1X 9NG

via Readings in London

The Barlett School of Architecture

Openned Visual

Published: March 2006

View free: PDF (5.2MB)

Edited by Sophie Robinson

Openned Visual was the first Openned publication. It was edited by Sophie Robinson and it was distributed at the first Openned night.

Thanks to Mike Weller for scanning it for us.

The Openned Visual magazine will be permanently archived here.

The Lost Swimming Pool

Sunday 6th June

Performances 1, 3 & 4.30pm

Installation 1 - 5pm

A Site-Specific Installation and Performance (for Esther Williams and the Lost Olympics; and for Jane Holloway and Elizabeth Jesser Reid). In part an homage to Esther Williams who would have represented the US as a swimmer in the 1940 Summer Games had they not been cancelled, and an examination of women’s physical education at the moments of the founding of Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges. This site-specific installation and performances will involve translations of archive material into writerly, filmic and choreographic practices. Project conceived and directed by Redell Olsen, Royal Holloway, University of London in collaboration with Libby Worth, Royal Holloway, University of London; Gillian Wylde, Dartington College of Art; Ruth Livesey, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Jane Holloway Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

To book tickets please contact Caroline Mann with the time of which performance you would like to attend. Due to the size of the space there is a limit of 40 audience members for each performance. Those wanting to attend performances should meet at the Windsor Building.

Each performance with the walk down will last around 20 minutes. The walk down is over uneven ground and includes steps etc. The audience will need to stand in the hall or walk around but there is not seating. If anyone is infirm or cannot manage the walk then please contact Libby Worth for alternative arrangements.

Cambridge Reading Series

Friday 30th April, 7.30pm

• Frances Kruk
• Redell Olsen

Judith E. Studio Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge

Admission is free, all welcome.

PW10

Friday 7th (evening) - Sunday 9th May

Programme includes:

Talks

• Redell Olsen
• Ric Allsopp
• Caroline Bergvall
• Jean-Jacques Lecercle
• Lone Twin

Performance

• Aaron Williamson
• Nancy Reilly-McVittie
• Low Profile
• Emma Bennet

Readings

• Tony Lopez
• Drew Milne
• Allen Fisher 

Multi-Channel Audio

• David Prior

Video Installation

• Nisha Dugall

Digital and Visual Text

• John Hall
• Jerome Fletcher
• John Cayley
• Ellen Bell
• Melanie Thompson

A Festival of Performance Writing and Cross-artform textual practice, with the opening of Caroline Bergvall and Ciaran Maher's 'Say Parsley' on the evening of the 7th May.

Arnolfini Gallery, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Day Pass £8 / £7 (conc.) 

Weekend pass £20 / £15 (unwaged) / £10 (students)

Website

via Larry Lynch

Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

£12.95 / $20, ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman, 2010 (Paperback, 211 pages)

ISBN 9781848610996

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm

The launch of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, featuring:

• Sascha Akhtar
• Isobel Armstrong
• Caroline Bergvall
• Andrea Brady
• Emily Critchley
• Claire Crowther
• Catherine Hales
• Frances Kruk
• Rachel Lehrman
• Wendy Mulford
• Redell Olsen
• Frances Presley
• Sophie Robinson
• Zoë Skoulding
• Harriet Tarlo

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Admission is free.

University of Greenwich: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Work Festival

Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th July

image by Emily Critchley

Emily Critchley:

There will be a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work, organised by Carol Watts (Birkbeck University) & myself, taking place this summer at the University of Greenwich (London). The dates are July 14th-16th.

Confirmed writers and speakers so far:

• Alev Adil
• Caroline Bergvall
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Andrea Brady
• Lee Ann Brown
• David Buuck
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Mairead Byrne
• Jennifer Cooke
• Corina Copp
• Emily Critchley
• Jean Day
• Jacob Edmund
• Carrie Etter
• Robert Hampson
• Edmund Hardy
• Susana Gardner
• Lisa Jarnot
• Daniel Kane
• Christine Kennedy
• Frances Kruk
• Francesca Lisette
• Marianne Morris
• Redell Olsen
• Holly Pester
• Vanessa Place
• Frances Presley
• Luke Roberts
• Lisa Robertson
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• Lisa Samuels
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Juliana Spahr
• Zoë Skoulding
• Cathy Wagner
• Samantha Walton
• Carol Watts
• Sara Wintz

Room 315, King William Building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS

Admission is free (donations requested).

For anyone unable to make the festival in person, Steve Willey and Alex Davies will be filming proceedings. These will be made available online.

Update on Thursday 11 March, 2010 by Openned

Updated list of readers.

Update on Saturday 22 May, 2010 by Openned

Further updates to list of readers and location of readings.

Update on Monday 5 July, 2010 by Openned

Updates to reader list and room location.