2nd July Thursday, 6pm-11pm at the Yard:
DIY spirits comes to Hackey Wick's The Yard theatre - zines, music & readings that goes into the midnight hours ...
Hamja Ahsan, co-founder of DIY Cultures festival, curates an evening of book jams, zine stalls, readings, music, live bands, performance art, poetry, DJ sets, live choose your own adventure
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Music/ DJ from 6pm
Readings from 7pm -9pm
Live Bands from 10pm
Food served by Aroma Cafe from 6pm-10pm
Bar running from 6pm - 2am.
READERS & ARTISTS & BANDS:
- ANDY WORTHINGTON campaign & Investigative journalist) reading from his books The Guantanamo Files &
on Stoneghenge
- HARRY MAN reading poetry related to science fiction & technology
- JACOB JOYCE reading and comics stall
- DEE SADA (reading Mary Barnes poems & speaking on RD Laing)
- CARMIN MASOLIVIER (She Grwwwls) reading poetry & speaking on DIY organising
- DIFFERENT SKIES reading prose, quotes,
- RIFFAT AHMED (peformance artist)
- Suficore band THE FRIENDS OF DESIGN do a rare live gig, like Laurie Anderson meets Rumi ...
LIVE CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE readings
from Verandah Vanguard (Herman U. Ticz)
Location:
The Yard theatre in Hackney Wick
Nearest tube: Hackney Wick
Bar / Club area in The Yard - max capacity 200 standing.
Website: http://www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/
FREE ENTRY, donations welcome (suggested £5 donation for artists sustainers fee)
DATE: Thursday 2nd July -
TIME: doors & bar open: 6pm - 2am
Book jam & poetry readings TBC:
7pm - 9pm
DJ sets: 1) 6pm-7pm
2) filler DJ 7pm-9pm, 3) 9pm-10pm 4) 11pm onwards…
Curated & organised by Hamja Ahsan (DIY Cultures)
Twitter: @hamjaahsan
Art projects website: www.hamjaahsan.ideastap.com
Names:
#DIYNight
BIOGRAPHIES OF READERS / ARTISTS:
ANDY WORTHINGTON is an independent investigative journalist and commentator, a human rights and social justice activist, and a photographer, filmmaker and singer-songwriter. He has worked with the United Nations, WikiLeaks, Reprieve and Cageprisoners, and has written for the Guardian and the New York Times. He runs three popular websites and campaigns: AndyWorthington.co.uk, CloseGuantanamo.org andWeStandWithShaker.org. He will be reading from his three books - Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield, about British counter-culture and state suppression of dissent, and his book about Guantanamo, The Guantanamo Files.
AndyWorthington.co.uk
CARMINA MASOLIVER is a London-based poet . She is the creator of She Grrrowls, a showcase of talented women in the arts. In 2014 she won Poetry Rivals (16-25 yr old catergory) and is part of The Roundhouse Collective. You can find her performing her poems at festivals like Bestival, Larmer Tree, The Last Word and Latitude.
LINKS:
Book link: http://www.nastylittlepress.org/books/nasty-little-intros/
DEE SADA is a London-based musician and curator.
In 2012, she embarked on a research project on Kingsley Hall, a historical community centre in Bow, east London. She recently curated the sold-out R.D. Laing 50 event at Cafe Oto, featuring R.D Laing's colleagues Dr Joseph Berke and Dr Leon Redler, artist Luke Fowler and The Bohman Brothers. Dee was a part of I LOVE them for they are my friends', a research project and performance based on the artist, Mary Barnes.
Dee will be discussing the life of Mary Barnes and reading some of Mary's poetry.
HARRY MAN is a London-based poet. His pamphlet Flight (published by Tall Lighthouse)was shortlisted ‘Best Pamphlet’ in the 2014 Saboteur Awards. His writing concerns the scientific and the personal, skipping between the seeming sense of customer service chatbots and the history of the Earth as told through its online presence, through to love-sick time machine pilots, a lament for lost photocopiers, the brains of nightingales, and true stories from American spaceflight. He won the 2014 Struga Poetry Evenings UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award.
http://www.manmadebooks.co.uk
JACOB JOYCE is a London-based artists and curator. He organises performances, exhibitions, dinners and parades, the struggle against oppression has become a recurrent pattern in my work. Acts of protest within his artistic practice interrogate the structures of white supremacy, colonial histories, and patriarchic hetronormativity that inform capitalism. I draw strength and inspiration from African theology working along side devotees and priests of Lucumi and Yoruba. Joyce creates crossroads where activisms, arts and marginalised narratives intersect. He is part of the collectives Survival Guides Brixton and Sorryifyoufelluncomfortable.
DIFFERENT SKIES is an open collective and literary journal that publishes bold experiments in creative nonfiction, criticism, poetry and prose. Different Skies has grown up at a time of austerity and perpetual war. Precarious conditions define our employment, housing and everyday life, against a background of spectacular and digitally dispersed violence. The editorial collective is Alistair Cartwright, Geoff Tibbs, Hannah Meszaros Martin, J W Siah . Different Skies is a collaborative community open to anyone who wants to be involved.
http://differentskies.net
RIFFAT AHMED is a film-maker and artist. Ahmed’s perfomance works bring filmic figures and narrative devices into an immediate reality utilising framing and mise en scene to create the effect of immersive disconnected film. Ahmed’s pieces are always interactive, embracing audience involvement as a way of heightening the ambience of the work. She is part of Parlour Collective. She has within the arts and film production from directing short films, art films, music videos, co-producing a feature film which have been screened in various festivals worldwide and channels such as the BBC, Arte creative and BFI. She also actively collaborate and work with artists: Larissa Sansour, Hassan Hajjaj and Oreet Ashery.
Music styles played:
Riot Grrl, Afropunk, Afrobeat, Qawwali, Asian Underground, Avant-rock, Taqwacore, post-punk, blues, no wave, electronica, 1990s alt, Suficore, lo-fi.
ZINE STALLS from: Frances Carbine, Different Skies publication, Jacob Joyce & more ...
