All our contributors and subscribers should receive their copies of the latest issue shortly – one more sack to get to the Post Office and it’s all done (until next time)…
If you don’t subscribe, of course, now would be the perfect time to do it!
| Thank you for your support! |
| Thank you for your donation to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Your donation has been designated for our Emergency Relief Fund, to be used in the Haiti earthquake emergency and in future emergencies. With your support, MSF is responding faster to emergencies and improving the quality and effectiveness of the medical care we provide in more than 60 countries around the world. Our field staff could not carry out this essential work without your support. If you have any questions about your donation you can contact Donor Services at donations@newyork.msf.org or (212) 763-5779. You will also be receiving a thank you letter in the mail which serves as your legal receipt. Please find below your donation information as it appears in our records. Wayne Burrows For more information visit our website at www.doctorswithoutborders.org |
| Thank you for your support! |
| Thank you for your donation to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Your donation has been designated for our Emergency Relief Fund, to be used in the Haiti earthquake emergency and in future emergencies. With your support, MSF is responding faster to emergencies and improving the quality and effectiveness of the medical care we provide in more than 60 countries around the world. Our field staff could not carry out this essential work without your support. If you have any questions about your donation you can contact Donor Services at donations@newyork.msf.org or (212) 763-5779. You will also be receiving a thank you letter in the mail which serves as your legal receipt. Please find below your donation information as it appears in our records. Wayne Burrows For more information visit our website at www.doctorswithoutborders.org |
As a way of generating some funds for the various Haitian Earthquake appeals, I’ve had a rummage and put aside 20 copies of ‘Marginalia’ (Peterloo, 2001) to sell, with all proceeds earmarked to go towards Doctors Without Borders, details here: http://doctorswithoutborders.org/index.cfm
RRP is £7.95, but these can go at £5 each including postage, and when paying please do so through Paypal using account wayneburrows AT ntlworld DOT com : all purchases will be paid through to the appeal once the 20 are sold, or after the weekend – whichever comes earlier. It’s not a bad book (even though I say so myself) and is now out of print…plus, copies can be signed if required, or left untainted by scrawl – say which you’d prefer when buying one!
You can also, of course, go and donate directly through the Doctors Without Borders website above should you wish to send money without having one of these books forced upon you as well…
Happy Christmas to all our subscribers, contributors and supporters, and best wishes for the New Year.
Nottingham Visual Arts: Sneinton Showcase day!
Seasons Greetings from Nottingham Visual Arts!
We’re looking forward to this Saturday’s Sneinton Showcase event, which we have helped to programme alongside Soundings Consultants and Contemporary Art Society with local artist led studio groups, designers, performers and practitioners.
You and your family can enjoy a fun, free day out and also buy those Christmas essentials like arts & crafts, unusual gifts and fresh fruit & veg. Come to Sneinton Market Place!
From 10am, participating projects include:
Annexinema / Café Sneinton / CAN Studios / Change of Heart / Contemporary Art Society / Curiosity Haus / Dance 4 / David’s Bread & Buns / FUEL / Goldfactory/ Greenway Community Centre / Hatch / Joff +Ollie / J Rhivee’s Jamaican Jerk Chicken / Kathleen & Lily’s / Maison Foo / Malcolm’s Key-cutting Service / Margaret’s Hats / Martin’s Shoes / Nottingham City Council / One Thoresby Street / Pat’s Bric-a-Brac / Patel Taylor / Pegg’s Fruit & Veg / Prussian Projeckte / Richard’s Clothing / SEND / Shrug Ladies / Sneinton Alchemy / Sneinton Bikers / Sneinton Community Traders Ltd / Sneinton Time Bank / Soundings / Stonebridge City Farm / Surface Gallery / Tether / The Force / Tom & Sarah’s Tea Stall / Transition Nottingham /
Plus individual artists and designers. We’ll also be presenting a stall for artist’s books and prints, a traditional tea stall with delicious drinks and cakes plus an opportunity to see Santa and his helpers and play scrabble with the Shrug Ladies!
Showcase Timetable
10am – 4pm Visit Santa’s Grotto with Hatch & Megan Tait
12.00pm – 3.00pm SEND art jam
12.30pm – 12.45pm The Force break dance jam (co-ordinated by Dance 4)
12.45pm – 1.15pm Presentation from Patel Taylor architects
1.15pm – 3.15pm Maison Foo’s roaming theatre (co-ordinated by Dance 4)
3.30pm Prize Draw – tell us what you think the future of Sneinton Square should hold and you may be a winner!
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Art Quiz 6pm – 8pm at Nottingham Contemporary
In the evening Nottingham Visual Arts like to invite you to our short 30 minute meeting about the British Art Show Fringe, which will be followed by an Art Quiz with prizes, mince pies and delicious mulled wine and winter warmers!
Condensed into palatable and frivolous art trivia, questions will range from the seminal to the downright silly, and knowing your Turner from your Turner Prize and your art from your elbow won’t necessarily mean you have the advantage. Contemporary art frippery and nuggets of local visual art knowledge will also help you gain points. (And points mean prizes!)
Anyone can form a team to take part. It’s FREE to enter – just show up on the night.
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6pm – Overnight silent films on Bath Street
See the Stille Nacht Programme curated by Annexinema and put together by Exocet projects in the Bath Street windows, adjacent to the Market. Stille Nacht is a series of silent artist film and video presented upon the window a furniture shop when night falls. The intention is to screen work in a new context that will lead to chance encounters from people who pass by the window at night, as well as those who seek to visit it on purpose.
Why is this all happening?
Nottingham City Council has been given £1.9 million to transform Sneinton Square. This involves commissioning a major new public art project and transforming the space with innovative architects Patel Taylor. Soundings Consultants want you to help shape the design for the new square, and Nottingham Visual Arts have agreed to help with this process. If you tell us what you think about the future of Sneinton Square, you could win one of many fantastic prizes at the Showcase!
Subscribe to Nottingham Visual Arts weekly newsletter
http://www.nottinghamvisualarts.net to find out about more events happening in the city.
Jeanette Leech’s much anticipated history of Acid, Psych and Experimental Folk, due to appear from Jawbone Press in the late Summer of 2010, is previewed in Staple’s latest issue with a look at the British folk musicians Alasdair Roberts and Sharron Kraus. Taking its place alongside song-like poems by Chris Hardy, Ray Russell and Alyson Stoneman, Leech’s essay focuses on the early work of the featured artists, and offers a unique perspective on the recent mutation of the traditional folk song as part of Staple 72: The Music Issue, themed around the many connections between the spoken, sung and written word.
What: KiosKiosk Nottingham December 8-10th
When: Tuesday Dec 08 until Thursday Dec 10 2009, 10am to 6pm
KiosKiosk is a fast brain food stall invented by top fashion designer Wayne Hemingway. It’s located on the Pelham Street-Thurland Street junction in Nottingham City centre, just up the road from Market Square. Several Nottingham publishers and Nottingham Writers’ Studio have joined forces under the publish NG umbrella to bring together a selection of recent books, magazines and pamphlets, which will be on sale between 10am and 6pm, from December 8 – 10th at the Pelham Street Kiosk. Each publisher will be in attendance at the times listed below and their books will all be on sale for the entire three day event.
Tuesday 8th December:
AM – Nottingham Writers Studio – Support and networking for published and aspiring local writers.
www.nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk 49 Stoney Street, The Lace Market Nottingham.
- Meet coordinator Aly Stoneman. Published members of the Studio will be visiting during the morning.
PM – Weathervane Press – Nottingham based regional fiction publisher.
www.weathervanepress.co.uk
Meet the publisher Ian Collinson from 1pm.
- Recently published local authors Marty Ross (Aztec Love Song) and Steven Wilcoxson (Make Less Strangers) will be available from 2pm to discuss their work and sign copies of their books.
Wednesday 9th December:
AM – Candlestick Press – Publisher of the unique and hugely popular ‘Instead of a Card’ poetry pamphlets.
www.candlestickpress.co.uk
-Meet the publisher Jenny Swann and stock up on Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s selection ‘The Twelve Poems of Christmas.’
PM – Left Lion Literary Confessional. Absolve yourself with Left Lion.
www.leftlion.co.uk
Thursday 10th December:
AM – Staple Magazine – Literature and Arts magazine produced in Nottingham, now receiving national acclaim.
www.staplemagazine.bigcartel.com
Meet the editor Wayne Burrows.
-The current ‘Art Issue’ and back numbers of the magazine will be on sale. Look out for a very special subscription deal available on the day!
PM – Pewter Rose Press-Nottingham based fiction publisher specialising in short stories.
www.pewter-rose-press.com
Meet the publisher Anne McDonnell from 1pm
Authors – Frances Thimann (Cello and other stories) and Roberta Dewa (Holding Stones) will be available during the afternoon to discuss their work and sign copies of their books.
Publish NG is a group of independent Nottingham publishers, c/o Parker and Collinson Ltd, 42 Church St, Lenton, Nottingham NG7 2FH. Telephone 0115 9420140
Contents:
Richard Skinner: extract from The Velvet Gentleman
Charles Bennett: The Blackberries at Cwm Tydu
Charles Bennett: Bivalve Seashells of the North European Seas
Charles Bennett: Happy to Meet & Sorry to Part
John Stuart: Litany
John Stuart: Buzzard
John Stuart: Seasons
Ruth O’Callaghan: Presentation & Departures – an interview with Marilyn Hacker
David Troupes: Songs for Apple-Picking Season
David Troupes: Songs for a June Storm
Frances Sackett: A Season’s End
Eireann Lorsung: Kingfishers
Eireann Lorsung: Elegy
Charlotte Wetton: The Night Watch
Chris Jones: Sentences
Neil Campbell: The Light On Ocean Avenue
Julie Lumsden: Joan and the Hanging
Julie Lumsden: The Wardress
Sam Gardiner: After The Storm
Sam Gardiner: Brainbird
Jonathan Taylor: Introduction & Allegro, or Some Piece of Music
Sarah Hymas: Permaculture
Sarah Hymas: A Lead Pipe to the Head, 1960
Chris Sparkes: Karno’s Circus
Chris Sparkes: Dad (1917 – 1993)
Chris Sparkes: His Master’s Voices
Gregory Warren Wilson: Yet Another Predictable Moonrise Poem
Gregory Warren Wilson: Travelling With My Theremin
Paul Brownsey: Time Regained
Bela Bartok/Thomas Land: Cantata Profana (The Splendid Stags)
Anna Menyhert: In-Between
Anna Menyhert: That Depression All Over Again…
Lynne Wycherley: The Seer
Lynne Wycherley: A Beaker Burial
Lynne Wycherley: Viking Ship Hall
Ann Pilling: A Danish Christening
Michael W. Thomas: Halfway Through Bilston With Josef Locke
John Gladwell: This is the Stain
John Gladwell: X-Ray
A Sampling of Spoken Word on Records (1955 to 1993) – includes TS Eliot; Edith Sitwell & William Walton; Dylan Thomas; Louise Bennett; Edward Kamau Brathwaite; Herbert Read; Joan Baez/Henry Treece; The Open Window/William Blake; BBC Drama Workshop with Ronald Duncan & David Cain; The Liverpool Scene/Adrian Henri; The Barrow Poets/Edwin Morgan & Miroslav Holub; John Betjeman/Jim Parker; Peter Redgrove; Dave Dallwitz Jazz Band/Ern Malley; RS Thomas; James Berry & EA Markham; Marie Osmond/Hugo Ball…
Gerard Benson: Kitty
Chris Hardy: extract from Short of Luck on Short Street
Ray Russell: Looking for Somebody
Jeanette Leech: Seasons They Change: Alistair Roberts & Sharron Kraus
Alex Pryce: Vacant
Deborah Tyler-Bennett: Anarchy on a Hot Day
W.H. Petty: Returning
Tarquin Landseer: Caribbean Port
Knute Skinner: The Two of Us
Knute Skinner: Yellow Beer
Knute Skinner: A Great Change
Kim Moore: You Asked Me To Bring You A Gift from My Walk
Lucie McKee: Hard Wood Fire
Fawzia Kane: days of wine, enjoy!
Fawzia Kane: the younger man
John Nicholson: Compost
Alyson Stoneman: Burial at Sea
Alyson Stoneman: Mermaids
Margaret Wilmot: Life Without Boys
Derrick Buttress: The Verb
Neal Mason: Addenda
Reviews:
Douglas Houston on Tom Kelly, Dic Edwards and John Lucas
Sophie Mayer on Judy Gahagan, Martha Kapos, Kate Rhodes and Dorothea Smartt
Julia Gaze on Roberta Dewa’s Holding Stones
D.A. Prince on George Gomorri, Caroline Price and Angela Kirby
Marcus Smith on Miranda Rijk’s biography of Julien Cahn
Lynne Taylor on Lorna Thorpe
Marsali MacDonald on David Belbin’s The Pretender
Jeremy Duffield on W.H. Petty
Wayne Burrows on Myra Schneider, Paul Farley, Derrick Buttress and Keith Howden
