Sudley House
An interesting text performance in Liverpool by the poet, Robert Sheppard.
Saturday 6th November and Friday 12th November 2004, tours at 2.00 pm and
3.00 pm. Free admission.
This event is hosted by Neon Highway and is supported by the Learning
Department of the National Museums.
Sudley House is a text-performance that operates as an alternative guide to
the art collection at Sudley House, Liverpool (now one of the National
Museums of Merseyside), to be performed in the space of Sudley itself by its
author, the poet Robert Sheppard. Reading from the text that was written on
site while Visiting Writer to the collection, Sheppard will lead spectators
through the collection, evoking the art collection, the world of Liverpool
trade that engendered the house and its collection, and also the
philanthropy that derived from the Unitarian faith of the Holt family who
lived there.
There will be no tickets. The event is free, and it is being performed on
Saturday 6th November and Friday 12th November 2004, tours at 2.00 pm and
3.00 pm.
Sudley House is at the pinnacle of Mossley Hill. It is next to the Carnatic
Halls of Liverpool University and may be accessed by the 899 bus from the
Centre of Liverpool.
Robert Sheppard has been published in book form, such as Tin Pan Arcadia
(Salt, 2004) and The Lores (Reality Street, 2003) and in anthologies, such
as Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford
University Press, 2001). He is also a critic, forthcoming is The Poetry of
Saying:
For more infor tap 'Neon Highway' into Google (lost links in forwarding),
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