Uneasy, lovable man, give me your painting
Hand to steady me taking the word-road home.
W.S.Graham: The Thermal Stair
Between July 3rd and 6th 2009, Kettle’s Yard will be hosting, along with Artworks and CB1 Poetry, a series of workshops, readings and exhibitions, focusing on writers and artists who live, or have lived, in Cornwall. The work will reflect their responses to the Cornish landscape and the collection housed at Kettle’s Yard.
TICKETS: Please note that events at Artworks and CB1 have tickets on the door only.
For Kettle’s Yard based events, please book via ADC Theatre:
Online: www.adcticketing.com
Phone: 01223 300 085
In person: ADC Box office, Park Street, Cambridge, CB5 8AS
Friday 3rd July
6pm
Festival Launch @ Cambridge Artworks, 5 Greens Road
A launch featuring the work of local artists who have a connection with Cornwall, followed by Melanie Challenger’s festival lecture. Melanie’s collection, Galatea, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007. She will talk about the Cornish landscape in the context of global and environmental change.
Cost £3
Saturday 4th July
7-9pm
Reading @ Kettle’s Yard
Penny Shuttle (author of Redgrove’s Wife, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2008) and Denise McSheehy (winner of the Writers Inc competition in 2007) will be reading from their work. They will be joined by six commissioned poets who will perform poems inspired by Cornwall and the paintings at Kettle’s Yard.
Cost £5 (£3 concessions)
Sunday 5th July
11.15am-1.15pm
Workshop @ Kettle’s Yard
A poetry workshop led by Penelope Shuttle. Participants will be encouraged to use the paintings housed at Kettle’s Yard for inspiration.
Cost £20
Sunday 5th July
8pm
Small Corner of Cambridge @ CB1 Café, Mill Road
Themed open mic in conjunction with CB1 Poetry. Two minute slots for poets to present their own small corners of Cambridge. A chance for poets who attended the poetry workshop to perform some of the poems they wrote earlier in the day.
Cost £3 (£2 concessions)
Monday 6th July
11.15am-1.15pm
Learning to See @ Kettle’s Yard
A workshop looking at how visual artists and writers can share and exchange sources of inspiration. Workshop led by Issam Kourbaj, assisted by poet Helen Mort. Issam is artist-in-residence at Christ’s College, and his exhibition Last Light, First Light (2004) explored light and optics. Helen Mort published the shape of every box in 2007 and recently won a major Eric Gregory Award.
Cost £10
