Sat 9 April - IT'S OBVIOUS: Lesley Woods (Au Pairs) in conversation

 Lesley Woods writer and lead singer with important post-punk band Au Pairs discusses women in alternative music with stories from her personal experience. Sexual politics, songwriting, performance and the art of attacking the social cliché. With sonic adventures and digressions..

Sat 2 April - RAKES AND ROMPS: Sex in the Papers with Matthew Caley

 Poet Matthew Caley discusses sex in the news and libertines in European history while leafing through his fifth collection 'Rake' out on Bloodaxe Press. Plus adventures in sound and performative discourse.

that most notorious rake, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Sat 26 March - THE CUL DE SAC AND THE MANUSCRIPT: Cinema of Poland and Beyond with Andrew Stys

Artist Andrew Stys in conversation on cinemas of Eastern Europe before the perestroika movement in the Soviet Union. Discussing the associated avant-garde cinema poster artists. Focusing on Andrew's native Poland and spreading wider into the expermental, surrealist and anti-realist waters of the 1960s and 1970s.With exploratory sound adventures.

Sat 19 March - STORIES FROM COLOMBIA with Dr Raquel Ribeiro

Dr Raquel Ribeiro has been a recent recipient of the Garcia Marquez Foundation  for New Journalism (FNPI) in which a creative program for reporters across the globe allows participants the opportunity to strengthen their skills in cultural journalism.

Raquel has returned from a trip to Columbia funded by the Foundation where she took part in opportunities to explore narration - in Spanish and English - contemporary stories from the region.

Introductory potted history of Colombia and its literature is combined with personal insights into the music and popular culture an important part of Foundation training.

Sat 12 March - LIFE IN SONG with Kath Tait and Helen McCookerybook

How do you put observations into the modern song? Is it a good art form for addressing specific, political and generational themes or is its content stronger when more universal and generic? Two acclaimed songwriters - Kath Tait and Helen McCookerybook - talk about their craft in relation to their world-view and personal experience.

http://www.mccookerybook.com/ - HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK

SUBURBAN PASTORAL
14 songs full of delicate and achingly beautiful songs recorded over the past two years - think a mix of Astrud Gilberto, the seminal 80's el records back catalogue or a bossa-folk soundtrack
HELEN MCCOOKERYBOOK
A great 24 track compilation covering Helen's work with The Chefs, Skat and Helen and the Horns. Includes classic '24 Hours' and indie hit 'Freight Train'

http://www.shaunwill.plus.com/kath/ - KATH TAIT

Sat 5 March - 'CONVERSATIONS': Talking Art in Mumbai and Goa

An art residency in India curated by Rekha Sameer gave Jude Cowan Montague the opportunity to work with young Indian artists and to exchange stories of practice. From the conversations with the women artists she learned how the Delhi gang rape case has intensified gender and generational clashes and how their response is affecting a new generation of creativity. She also shares her personal notes on the early Bollywood song industry.

Sat 27 Feb - 'SEMBLANCE' and 'PLACE, WASTE, DISSENT': Sarer Scotthorne and Paul Hawkins

Alice Foster talks to poets Sarer Scotthorne and Paul Hawkins about new published work. Sarer is an expert martial artist/tutor and explores in text her relationship with two of her swords, a Juan and a Mioa Tiou. Paul discusses the importance of untold (his)tories and how collaboration can shape future scenarios for an era of climate change.

 

 

Sarer Scotthorne shares poetry from her new pamphlet 'Semblance'. An expert martial artist and poet, Sarer explores in text and form her relationship with two of her swords, a Juan and a Mioa Tiou. She has been training with the two swords for the last twenty eight years and her work reflects on the strange and wonderful thoughts and physics for a female martial artist of 48 years old. Sarer has recently performed a unique creative fusion of her work at 'Situations' at 'Sanctum Project' in Bristol. A completely unique presentation.

Sarer will also be performing at Scaledown on Fri 4 March

 

Paul Hawkins presents work from his Influx Press book, Place Waste Dissent. He discusses the importance of untold (his)tories, what people can achieve when they have a common aim(s), and how this collaboration could shape future scenarios in the 21st century and beyond, with the effects of Climate Change . . .

Paul will read some o the experimental work from Place, Waste, Dissent live on air.