Sensing Spaces: Wandering Words
Friday March 7 2014 7pm – 9pm
Seven internationally influential architects transform the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Art in London, ten poets respond to their work in an exciting evening of peripatetic poetry.
‘Imagine, feel, share, explore, touch, reflect’ – where we are shapes how we feel, what we hear colours our experience… We are delighted to announce our first event in collaboration with the Royal Academy.
The poets contributing response to Sensing Spaces are:
Patricia Debney Sasha Dugdale Ian Duhig Martin Figura Vanessa Gebbie Emer Gillespie Helen Ivory Maureen Jivani Edward Mackay Abegail Morley Robert Peake Catherine Smith Tamar Yoseloff
Two members of the public will be invited to read as part of the evening alongside established poets. If you would like to take part, please send your work to info@ekphrasis.org.uk
Tickets for the event can be booked on the main RA website.
25 January — 6 April 2014
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/sensingspaces
WHO WE ARE
Abegail Morley, Catherine Smith and Emer Gillespie, together we share a passion for creating a dialogue between the arts.
‘It’s the exciting bit, really….how arts practitioners in one sphere can take something created by an arts practitioner in another sphere and see something fresh and inspiring in it,’ Catherine Smith
‘I find that what I see and read sets off a chain of thoughts in my own head that can lead to a poem I would never have thought of writing in the first place. The poem furthers my communication with a work of art, I can talk back to it, talk back to the artist who created it, or explore the resonance it creates inside me,’ Emer Gillespie.
EKPHRASIS provides an evening of conversation and exploration inviting collaboration with some of the most original voices working in poetry today.
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