Renga workshops and Arab authors tour
Posted on 06/08/2004From sea to sea – renga along Hadrian’s Wall
Alec Finlay held 4 renga workshops last year in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland at Arbeia, Walbottle Campus, Housesteads and St. Oswalds Heavenfield. The final four are in Cumbria, and complete the journey for from sea to sea, with workshops at:
6th September Sandysike (near Walton/Brampton)
8th September Beaumont Parish Hall, Kirkandrews on Eden
10th September Bowness on Solway
12th September Birdoswald
Renga are linked verse composed communally over the course of a day. They are composed from words and shared experiences. It involves sitting, listening and writing. The workshops use a renga platform sited outdoors, which brings the workshop participants together as a group.
Each renga is led by a master poet. This year they are: Subhadassi, Jacob Polley, Martin Lucas, and David Platt.
Bookings via ARTS UK
and:
Banipal Live! – A national tour of Arab Authors
Banipal, the Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, has organised a national tour of contemporary poetry and fiction in readings and master classes by 4 Arab Authors – Hoda Barakat, Mourid al-Barghouti, Samuel Shimon and Saadi Youssef.
The writers will be giving readings in Newcastle as part of the Festival of Stories, a joint project by New Writing North, Northern Stage and Live Theatre.
The reading will be on Sunday 31st October, at Live Theatre at 8pm. Tickets are £3 and £2 and will be available in August from Live Theatre Tel: 0191 232 1232.
A week later Iraqi Writer Samuel Shimon and Lebanese writer Hoda Barakat will take part in two ARTS UK organised events for Writing on the Wall.
Samuel and Hoda will jointly present and read from their works that have been translated and are available in English. As well as the reading, the audience will join with the writers in discussing the nature of being a writer living and working away from their country of origin (Samuel lives in London, Hoda in Paris).
The events will be based at forts with a direct link with the two writers. At Arbeia in South Shields, the Tigris Ferrymen were stationed, and thus form a direct connection with modern Iraq/Iran. At Carvoran, located on the Northumberland/Cumbria border, Syrian Archers were stationed (at the time the area from where they came also included what is now modern Lebanon).
Saturday 6th November 1pm-3pm
Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum
Baring Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear NE33 2BB
Sunday 7th November 5pm-7pm
The Roman Army Museum
Carvoran, Greenhead, Brampton, Northumberland, CA8 7JB
The events at Arbeia and Carvoran are free but please book your place via ARTS UK.
ARTS UK
Newburn Enterprise Centre
High Street
Newburn
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE15 8LN T: 0191 2646686
E: email@arts-uk.com
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W: www.writingonthewall.uk.com
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