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Events this week

The Other Room Wednesday 2 February 7pm @ The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY (Manchester Science Park) www.otherroom.org JOSEPH WALTON (aka JOW LINDSAY), POSIE RIDER & STEPHEN EMMERSON Joseph Walton (aka Jow Lindsay) is a poet, fiction writer, and editor of Sad Press. Posie Rider is author of the chapbook tristanundisolde from Arthur Shilling Press (2010) and, City Break Weekend Girl forthcoming from Critical Documents (2011). Stephen Emmerson’s poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Jacket, Great Works, Cake, Poetry Salzburg Review, Freaklung, Sunfish and Department and Poems found at the scene of a murder (Zim Zalla, 2010). Islington Mill James St, Salford, M3 5HW – Thursday 3 February 6pm Irene Barberis , Australian artist and curator will deliver a talk about her work as part of the “Say Something Series”. Counting Backwards is a series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months at

wave us goodbye

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Poetry films on the BBC Big Screen in Manchester will commemorate the Holocaust, bringing together the memories of older Jewish people. The project, titled BRING LIGHT TOWARDS YOU, is one of many arts projects run by the arthur+martha arts organisation. In the build-up to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, poetic texts created by the older people, many of whom are Holocaust survivors, will be displayed ‘in lights’ on the Screen at The Triangle in the city centre. The Holocaust has often been linked to trains: millions of people, particularly Jews, were taken to concentration camps by train before being killed in the notorious Nazi ‘Final Solution’ during the Second World War. These 30-second films give fragments from accounts of their journeys: to destruction and journeys of escape. Artist Lois Blackburn and poet Philip Davenport worked with older Jewish people living at The Morris Feinmann Home, Manchester, exploring issues related to the Holocaust. “To hear these stories has bee

Irene Barberis and 5 Places

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Irene Barberis arrived in Manchester yesterday for a two week residency at Bury Art Gallery. Melbourne-based Irene and I have begun work on various projects, of which this project is the first part of an international curatorial collaboration called 5 Places . The concept of 5 Places proceeds from the notion of mobility, unpredictability and interchangeability brought about in networks challenged through curatorial and artist dialogue. As the name suggests there will be shows in 5 international venues around the world. The next show will also be in Bury in October as part of the Manchester Asia Triennial, but after that shows are planned in Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, and one other to be confirmed. http://www.irenebarberis.com/home.html Showing alongside Irene's installation is Mike Parr 's video project "Breathless", here he is talking about it.

Digital Immortality

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I was pleased to read about the Michael Wolf show in Paris http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/01/michael-wolf-we-are-watching-y.php which looks interesting in its own right but resonates with me because I am also immortalised on Google in this street view (you can zoom closer!): http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=m3+4jn&sll=53.476835,-2.256918&sspn=0.011825,0.05476&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Manchester+M3+4JN,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.476809,-2.248807&spn=0,0.05476&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.476669,-2.257167&panoid=WZiPiAC8XPRTg5C-F3tQdw&cbp=12,10.3,,0,10.67

Text progress report

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I've not had time or brain space to blog much for a while now. Mainly tied up with pulling the Text Festival together and preparing the plans to save the Bury Arts & Museums Service from the onslaught of government destruction of public services. The Text Festival has been a massive undertaking this time but there's enough organised now that if I am run over by a bus the event won't notice my absence. As I am getting interesting stuff offered constantly, I may eventually be guilty of either putting too much in or missing out good people. Anyway, the website is pretty up to date now so it's worth a look. www.textfestival.com There are a number of set pieces which I am particularly pleased with: - Ron Silliman's first public art commission - this will be unveiled as part of the Sentences show and after the Festival will be re-sited in a permanent prominent outdoor location. - Christian Bök's first UK performance but more than that I'm pleased with t