57 Events Intro

Jean 'Binta' Breeze returns from Jamaica in February & resumes work on her 'New and Selected Works' (due from Bloodaxe Books in Autumn 2010). Jean will be undertaking a programme of performances & workshops through out the year, highlights of which include:

Feb. 25th: Hampshire, with the acclaimed flautist Keith Waithe
Mar. 8th: Y Theatre, Leicester - a special performance for International Women's Week - to be filmed & edited into a DVD for publication with her forthcoming book
Mar. 26th - 28th: Spain

Linton Kwesi Johnson will be taking on selected dates in the UK & abroad, including special appearances in London & Scotland, i.e.

Jan. 29th: Unison AGM, London
Mar. 20th: StAnza Festival, St. Andrews

Patience Agbabi will be continuing in her role as the newly appointed Laureate of Canterbury, including developing a new body of work inspired by Chaucer. In the New Year Patience will also be linking up with the English Media Centre to film a contribution to a new multi-media resource for GCSE English Literature. Other public performances include:

Feb. 23rd: City & Islington College, London
May. 29th: Stratford Theatre, London - with John Hegley

Other highlights for the New Year include 57 re-connecting with the TUC, London for a special event for International Women's Week, featuring Zena Edwards among others

57 is also pleased to announce that selections from the Poetry Video Jukebox are now available on YouTube, representing a unique exploration of the relationship between poetry & place & poetry & film, including films & interviews featuring:

Ian McMillan, with the film of the poem 'The er Barnsley Seascapes'
Peter Finch, with the film of the poem 'The Way It Grows'
Jean 'Binta' Breeze, with the film of the poem 'The Wife of Bath speaks in Brixton Market'
Tom Leonard, with the film of the poem 'Unrelated Incidents'
Jane Draycott, with the film of the poem 'Single Lens'
Paul Farley, with the film of the poem 'Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second'
Imtiaz Dharker, with the film of the poem 'These Are The Times We Live In'
Billy Childish, with the film of the poem 'Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate Men'
Clare Pollard, with the film of the poem 'Thinking of England'
Iain Sinclair, with the film of the poem 'Continuous Sky'

with more t.b.a.