The Write to Ignite festival starts on Monday - but we have still managed to squeeze in yet another fantastic event...
Monday 24th September
Brown's Shoe Shop of Curiosities
Artefacts, artwork, and odd imaginings are to be found at L H Browns, E8; an abandoned shoe shop that has now been given a new lease of life by the LE GUN collective, a motley crew of artists, writers and designers based in Hackney's London Fields.
The exhibition space features found objects, discovered on the premises, tampered with to create an eccentric show that evolves as each new artefact is uncovered. Inspired by regular contributor Sir Peter Blake and Soho's The Colony Room the 'Shoe Shop of Curiosities' presents an East End ethnographic backdrop for the work of one of its most eminent collectives, somewhere between Tutankhamun's tomb and George Melly's briefcase.
This special event as part of Write to Ignite, Hackney Word Festival 2007, presents a evening of readings featuring:
Joe Ambrose: William Burroughs once told Joe Ambrose: "thanks for driving the snakes out of Ireland." Ambrose is Literary Editor of outsideleft.com His 10th book – Chelsea Hotel Manhattan – extreme travel writing – is out in November. As a member of rai-hop terrorists Islamic Diggers, he has worked with Anita Pallenberg, Howard Marks, Lydia Lunch, and John Cale. www.joeambrose.net
Tom Chivers: the energetic poet and promoter behind Penned in the Margins and Generation Txt. His work has been published widely and his first collection London Pride, Mother's Ruin is due out in 2008. A former presenter on Resonance FM and currently Associate Editor of literary journal Tears in the Fence, Tom's work is firmly situated in the East End of London where he lives and works. www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk
Joe Dunthorne: a poet and novelist who lives in Shoreditch. His first novel Submarine is hotly anticipated from Hamish Hamilton in 2008, and his poetry has been featured in The Guardian, Reactions and Generation Txt. He was one of the featured writers on the Generation Txt UK tour, entertaining audiences the length and breadth of the country with his sharp, witty brand of poetry. www.myspace.com/joedunthorne
Venue: Brown's Shoe Shop, 61 Wilton Way, Hackney, E8
Admission: FREE
Booking: Just turn up
Time: 7pm.
For full information about the Write to Ignite festival contact: info@writetoignite.co.uk / 07923 474 196 or visit www.writetoignite.co.uk
Brown's Shoe Shop of Curiosities: www.legun.co.uk/newsite/le_gun_news_article.php?nw_ida=87&bigim_id=1117
How to find us: Train – Hackney Central. Tube - Bethnal Green (then bus 106 or 254) or Highbury & Islington (then bus 30 or 277). Buses - 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, 253, 254, 276, 277, 394, D6, W15.
Monday 24th September
Brown's Shoe Shop of Curiosities
Artefacts, artwork, and odd imaginings are to be found at L H Browns, E8; an abandoned shoe shop that has now been given a new lease of life by the LE GUN collective, a motley crew of artists, writers and designers based in Hackney's London Fields.
The exhibition space features found objects, discovered on the premises, tampered with to create an eccentric show that evolves as each new artefact is uncovered. Inspired by regular contributor Sir Peter Blake and Soho's The Colony Room the 'Shoe Shop of Curiosities' presents an East End ethnographic backdrop for the work of one of its most eminent collectives, somewhere between Tutankhamun's tomb and George Melly's briefcase.
This special event as part of Write to Ignite, Hackney Word Festival 2007, presents a evening of readings featuring:
Joe Ambrose: William Burroughs once told Joe Ambrose: "thanks for driving the snakes out of Ireland." Ambrose is Literary Editor of outsideleft.com His 10th book – Chelsea Hotel Manhattan – extreme travel writing – is out in November. As a member of rai-hop terrorists Islamic Diggers, he has worked with Anita Pallenberg, Howard Marks, Lydia Lunch, and John Cale. www.joeambrose.net
Tom Chivers: the energetic poet and promoter behind Penned in the Margins and Generation Txt. His work has been published widely and his first collection London Pride, Mother's Ruin is due out in 2008. A former presenter on Resonance FM and currently Associate Editor of literary journal Tears in the Fence, Tom's work is firmly situated in the East End of London where he lives and works. www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk
Joe Dunthorne: a poet and novelist who lives in Shoreditch. His first novel Submarine is hotly anticipated from Hamish Hamilton in 2008, and his poetry has been featured in The Guardian, Reactions and Generation Txt. He was one of the featured writers on the Generation Txt UK tour, entertaining audiences the length and breadth of the country with his sharp, witty brand of poetry. www.myspace.com/joedunthorne
Venue: Brown's Shoe Shop, 61 Wilton Way, Hackney, E8
Admission: FREE
Booking: Just turn up
Time: 7pm.
For full information about the Write to Ignite festival contact: info@writetoignite.co.uk / 07923 474 196 or visit www.writetoignite.co.uk
Brown's Shoe Shop of Curiosities: www.legun.co.uk/newsite/le_gun_news_article.php?nw_ida=87&bigim_id=1117
How to find us: Train – Hackney Central. Tube - Bethnal Green (then bus 106 or 254) or Highbury & Islington (then bus 30 or 277). Buses - 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, 253, 254, 276, 277, 394, D6, W15.
Renowned poet, song-writer, jazz and blues anglo-saxophonist Michael Horovitz reads from his most political work to date, an adaptation and extension of the structure, music and apocalyptic collage of T S Eliot's The Waste Land of 1922. Among the soulless forces of darkness deconstructed in the poem are Tony Blair's degradation of the Labour Party; the mega-materialisms of Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch; the macho duplicities of Bull Clinton and Gorge Dubbya Bash; Hypeing Up, Dumbing Down and the "EnterPrize Culture"; the hubristic vacuities of the Greenwich Dome saga; and the suicidal commercial triumphalism promoted by the arms, nuclear, advertising and war industries.
Joe Ambrose reads from CHELSEA HOTEL MANHATTAN - Extreme living in New York's Chelsea Hotel, from the Beats through Punk, and on into the present day. The Chelsea Hotel was home to many famous authors, artists and outlaws down the years. Andy Warhol shot Chelsea Girls there and welsh poet Dylan Thomas died there, having reputedly inspired the young Zimmerman to change his name to Bob Dylan. Chelsea Hotel Manhattan is the first factual book on the building and features conversations with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Gerard Malanga, Herbert Huncke, Victor Bockris and others.
