The Situation presents the dialectical unification of art and life: art/music/performance/social/life at arch635.

Words from London Lit Plus Festival and Social Disease:
Heidi James
Matthew Coleman
Adelle Stripe
Lee Rourke

Audio/performance:
Dodo
TonyThorpe
KARBORN
Kate Daisy Grant

Visuals:
Dae Hun Kwon
KARBORN
Ken Rose
Myles Quin

arch635, 15-16 Lendal Terrace, Clapham, SW4.
Nearest tube: Clapham North.
17th July 2008, 7pm until 1am
Entrance £1.99, with limited free drinks.

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CELEBRATE the publication of the new issue of Ambit with us at our launch party at The Owl Bookshop on Thursday the 17th of July. Have a glass of wine or two; meet our writers, artists and editors; and listen to poetry from Jehane Markham and Siriol Troup, and fiction from Matthew Licht, introduced by Dr Martin Bax. You can also browse the well-stocked bookshop shelves (and buy if you wish…) and, of course, get your copy of the latest Ambit while the ink is still drying! This event as usual is FREE and do feel free to bring friends.

Starts 6.30 for 7pm, The Owl Bookshop, 209 Kentish Town Road, London NW5.
Turn left out of Kentish Town tube, walk for 5 minutes, the Owl is on the right.
Buses: C2, 134, 214 and 46. Metered parking, free from 6.30pm.

On Friday 18 July, 7-9 pm as the grand finale to a Poetry Marathon, we’re asking poets to come and read some of their favourite poems (preferably their own).

If you’d like to be one of those poets, we’d like to give you a slot. For more details, please contact Caroline Lazar on 07779580448 or caro.lazar@gmail.com

“Set in the south-west corner of the square, its grey-brown tower and gaunt walls don’t look heartening – but they contain more human warmth than I’ve encountered in any other church, anywhere, ever” – Andrew Motion

St Peter de Beauvoir church in Hackney is holding a 50-hour Poetry Marathon to raise funds for a £10,000 appeal for essential access work. Funds raised will help fund disabled access for the 19th century church, which has steep stairs up to its main entrance and down to its basement. The Poetry Marathon takes place 13-18 July 12 noon-9 pm. For most of the Marathon, local people will be sponsored to read aloud their favourite poetry and verse, anything from Shakespeare to song lyrics and comic verse. Rev Julia Porter-Pryce, vicar at St Peter’s, said: “We need to raise £10,000 to help make the church more accessible; not just for wheelchair users but to open up the church to the local community.”

The Marathon will culminate in a gala evening on Friday 18th July, when the final two hours will be compered by Vivette Ferguson and poets will read or recite their own work.

St Peter de Beauvoir Town Church, 86 de Beauvoir Road, Hackney.

How to get there: Good bus links on Kingsland Road and Southgate Road. Nearest tubes: Highbury & Islington (about a mile); Old Street (1-2 miles) Nearest train: Dalston Kingsland (about half a mile) via Kingsland Road then down Stamford Street and De Beauvoir Road.

http://stpeterdebeauvoir.org

Join Tony White, Science Museum writer in residence for summer 2008, for a short story workshop at the Science Museum. The workshop is inspired by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post, which can be seen every day at the museum until February 2010.

Listening Post immerses the viewer in a rhythm of computer-synthesised voices reading, or singing out, a fluid play of uncensored and unedited real-time text fragments sampled from thousands of live, unrestricted internet chatrooms, bulletin boards and other online public forums. Listening Post asks the question: what might 100,000 people chatting online actually sound like? In the words of the artists, ‘the messages start to form a giant cut-up poem’.

Inspired by Listening Post, this workshop explores the use of experimental writing techniques such as cut-ups to create completely new works of fiction, using methods and approaches that Tony has developed both for his current work-in-progress Balkanising Bloomsbury and for his ongoing series of collaborations with visual artists.

Participants will be required to bring an A4 notebook or laptop (however you usually write!), and a number of easily obtainable items in order to participate in the workshop. You will use these few items to create a new short story from scratch in one day. Completed stories may be published on the Science Museum website.

To maximise writing time and discussions among the group, spaces are strictly limited. This writing workshop is suitable for participants aged 18+. A workshop for 16-18s will be held later in the summer.

Click here for more information and to reserve a place.

Refreshments and lunch is included as part of the workshop.

Friday July 11, 09:45 to 16:00, The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD

This workshop is FREE, but pre-booking is essential.

• Listening Post
• Review of Foxy-T by Tony White
• Chapters of Tony White’s Balkanising Bloomsbury project are currently being published on-line in the Diffusion Generator ebook format, e.g. ‘Bottle Orchestra’ at http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=191

We’re very pleased to announce even more events, with The London Magazine and Trespass hosting more Poets at Speaker’s Corner over four days (3-6 July), another walk - this time around Bloomsbury and Holborn chasing the ghost of W.B. Yeats (19th July) - and a very special realisation of LL+’s desire to cater for kids AND comics fans as the DFC comes to the Cartoon Museum on the 12th. And there still might be some surprises to come…

Don’t forget to take your camera to the events, and add your photos to the LL+ Flickr pool.

Poets read their work at Speaker’s Corner for The London Magazine and Trespass as part of the 02 Wireless Festival.

Speakers include Roddy Lumsden, Paul Lyalls, Todd Swift, Paul Birtill, Yara El-Sherbini, Simon Munnery, Neil Curry, A.F. Harrold, Agnes Meadows, Richard Tyrone Jones, Maurice Riordan, Tim Wells, Agife Mannix, Tom Chivers and Sascha Akhtar.

Bring a poem and you may be able to join in…

4pm - 6pm, every day from the 3rd to the 6th of July, at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park.

Niall McDevitt leads a walk from Yeats’s Woburn Walk flat to The Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, a trip through Pre-Raphaelitism/Symbolism/Decadance/Modernism, meeting such associates as Olivia Shakespear, Rabindranath Tagore, Maud Gonne, Oscar Wilde, Lionel Johnson, Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound and many others.

Recommended reading:

Roy Foster, W.B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage, and W.B. Yeats: The Arch Poet
W.B. Yeats, The Grey Rock (first poem in the volume Responsibilities)

Saturday 19^th July 2008, 1pm
Meeting at Woburn Walk, WC1, near Euston Station

http://thelondonadventure.co.uk/

A special chance to meet the artists from Britain’s newest comic, the DFC. Find out about the characters and do some cartooning yourself. Fun for everyone, FREE for kids.

12.00 Monkey Business - Meet the artists and writers behind ‘Monkey Nuts’, Bob and Lorenzo Etherington. Find out how they created the character and get some tips on how to draw them.

1.30 Welcome to ‘The Strange World of Weird!’ Meet Zak Simmonds-Hurr, the co-creator of ‘The Strange World of Weird!’ and perhaps get ideas for creating your own strange worlds.

3.00 Vern and Lettuce in person - Meet Sarah McIntyre, creator of a sheep named Vern, a rabbit named Lettuce and their tower block neighbours in Pickle Rye. Find out how she writes and draws the stories and have a go yourself.

Venue: The Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH

Admission: Adults £4, Concs £3, Under 18s Free.

We’re still looking for more events, so send them in if you’ve got them - there’s still time to start your own!

The Sohemian Society present THE SUAREZ SEANCE: REVISITING THE DARK WORLD OF DEREK RAYMOND

This event will be introduced by writer Cathi Unsworth, author of The Singer, and will include a live performance of the original Dora Suarez sound track, performed by James Johnston, Terry Edwards and Richard Strange. There will also be readings from Raymond’s recently re-published I was Dora Suarez (Serpent’s Tail). The great Dora Suarez CD will also be available on the night.

The Horse Hospital Arts Venue, The Colonade, Bloomsbury (off Russell Square, WC1)

Thursday July 17th, 7.30pm

Entrance: £7 (to reserve a ticket, email: sohemian@yahoo.co.uk).