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Bringing together original music, poetry & visionary art

Bringing together original music, poetry & visionary art

P R E S E N T S

S A T / S U N

16/17S E P T E M B E R

LIVE MUSIC • PER FOR MANCE POETRY • GUIDED WALK • COMIC WOR KSHOP • ART AND SPOK EN WOR D WOR KSHOPS

DR E A M I N T ER PR ETAT ION • COLOU R T H ER A PY • FACE-PA I N T I NG A RT E X HI BIT ION • FOOD & DR I N K • T H E AT R E

This world is a world of imagination and vision!

— SATURDAY —

Michael HorovitzVanessa Vie, William Blake Klezmatrix Band, Niall McDevitt, Stephen Micalef, Stella Bahin

— SUNDAY —

Gwyneth Herbert David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Tymon Dogg,

Attila the Stockbroker, Luke Wright, Ruby & the ReVisionsPROGRAMME BEGINS MIDDAY… FULL DETAILS AT WWW.BLAKEFEST.CO.UK

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Evening

Performance

Evening

Performance

Sunday concludes…9pm – 10pm Time Gentleman Please, Play by John KnowlesTime Please is a dark comedy set in a failing pub, where ever appeasing landlord Steve and feisty wife Cath are held hostage by conspiracy theory believing Keith a man who takes no responsibility for his circumstances, what follow is a lock-in like no other. http://time-please.co.uk

+ Blakean inspired face painting (Sunday), FREE creative workshop for young people being held in the run up to BlakeFest to create sculptural and kinetic creations to decorate the Hall. To find out more, or register the interest for your child/children to take part please email: info@blakefest.co.uk.

+ Comic Workshop by acclaimed comic writer Kevin Gunstone based on Blake’s prose and art.

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SATURDAY 16th SEPTEMBERDaylight preludes…Midday Bognor Regis Library Private View, with Mikey Georgeson (Artist) joined by Cherry Smith (Poet/Writer)Mikey Georgeson presents an audio visual installation, featured in 1883 Magazine. The Non-bifurcated Man includes an improvised soundtrack and is a transposition of an actual event, into a real occasion. Cherry Smith is an award-winning poet and writer haililng from Ireland and her work has been published in many journals and anthologies.

Midday – 2pm Bognor Regis Library Community word responses to the virtual reality exploration of Blake’s Cottage with acclaimed Portsmouth poet in residence Stella Bahin. Stella will be using the BlakeFest as her creative space to create a unique poem with the community, infusing ideas, sounds and visuals.

2pm Hotham Park Look for the cow! Joins us for an informal picnic or if it’s raining meet at the Café.

2.45pm We will leave Hotham Park on a guided walkExperience ‘Poetopography’ on a guided walk exploring Blakes connection to the local land ‘Beulah’ with pscho-geographer Niall Mcdevitt (author of two de-gentrifying poetry collections ever trying to decode the London/Jerusalem conundrum).

4pm– 5pm Felpham Village The walk with join up with inimitable poet Stephen Micalef author of The Punk Kings of Dsylexia. As a teenager in 1976-77, he wrote for the pioneering punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue. He reviewed many early punk gigs in London, including the seminal 100 Club Punk Fest. He also founded the Brixton Poets, which he ran between 1986-97.

6pm – Bognor Regis School of Music, Recital Room

Dusk heralds dedications to the divine and visionary with highly-acclaimed jazz/beat poet and Blake aficionado Michael Horovitz. He will be joined by Vanessa Vie (poet) and Jazz Musicians Annie Whitehead & Peter Lemer: the William Blake Klezmatrix Band. He has performed William Blake’s words in the Royal Albert Hall and the Victoria & Albert Museum last year.

SUNDAY 17th SEPTEMBER Doors Midday (Bersted Community Centre)

12.30pm Martin ChomskyMartin will perform a solo acoustic/spoken word set. He was influential in the West Midlands punk-reggae party of the late 1970s and early 80s, collaborating with members of The Specials and latterly Pop Will Eat Itself and Bentley Rhythm Ace.

1.15pm Justin CoeWith his trademark playful poetics and heart-felt humour, Justin Coe performs some of the funniest and most poignant verses from his widely praised book The Dictionary of Dads, plus a few new ones too.

2.30pm Ruby and the ReVisions (Acoustic) Local blues and soul singer Ruby Tiger is joined by Louise Maggs on guitar, showcasing a set that reveals a more poetic and lyrically centred set of songs. Ruby will also be debuting a new composition written especially for Blakefest 2017.

3.15pm Tymon Dogg‘Tymon’s a fuckin’ genius’ John Cooper-Clarke. A truly outstanding multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter described as the King of Gypsy Punk. In his 40 year career he has worked with a wide variety of musicians: The Clash, Jimmy Paige and The Pogues.

4.15pm Luke Wright Luke Wright has been described as ‘one of the funniest and most brilliant poet of his generation’ by The Independent. He writes bawdy bar room ballads about Westminster rogues and small town tragedies and is a regular on BBC Radio 4.

5pm Atilla the StockbrokerPremiered by the legendary John Peel, Attila has toured the world performing his sharp-tongued, radical social surrealist poetry and songs for 36 years. He will be performing exctracts from his autobiography Arguments Yard.

6.15pm David Devant & His Spirit WifeDavid Devant & His Spirit Wife never intended themselves to become a band, but rather a space in which weird and wonderful happenings could unfold. Their shows became the stuff of legend during the Britpop era. Not to be missed!

7.30pm Gwyneth Herbert‘A remarkably gifted talent’ The Guardian ‘Sings with a rare balance of passion and control … one of Britain’s brightest talents’ The Telegraph. Gwyneth Herbert is an award-winning composer and lyricist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Drawing on influences from the worlds of jazz, folk, contemporary classical music and storytelling. Her latest album is the first Blue Note UK release in 30 years.

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