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Writing Encounters

11, 12 and 13th September 2008

York St John University, York, UK

Curating the encounter between writing and performance - a three day event bringing together artists and writers with critics and producers to debate, present, perform and collaborate.

Writing Encounters is an international symposium featuring interdisciplinary artists and scholars working in the expanded field of writing.

Opening on Thursday evening with a performance of Lone Twin's Nine Years, the symposium will include

Barbara Campbell, curator of the Australian web writing project 1001 Nights Cast

York-New York - a series of 5 minute writing commissions for recording technologies

Artist publishers Information as Material (Simon Morris and Nick Thurston) with The Perverse library

Melbourne based writers Jude Walton and Margaret Cameron on writing dance, and the performed essay.

Simon Piasecki's Rich Tea Conversations

With further interventions, commissions, presentations and discussions on art, poetics, collage, narrative, the visual books, publishing, the theatrical remix, new dramaturgies, writing networks, art and language, pedagogy, writing's histories, visual textuality, scripts, scores and scribbles from (amongst others)

Drunken Chorus, cris cheek, Terry O'Connor, David Richmond, Caroline Bergvall, Alex Kelly, Peter Jaeger, Tony White. Maria Fusco, Simon Zimmerman, Mary Oliver, Niki Woods, Charlotte Vincent, Liz Agiss, Lenora Champagne, Dutton and Swindells, and many more

World café events, writing workshops, Saturday Surgery with ACE on writing proposals, roundtables on networks and collaborations, DJ event with Lone Twin, evening soiree, pies and papers.

The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments, and informal dinner on 1st and 2nd night as well Lone Twin's performance.  You can register for the whole event, or for either of the full days (Friday and Saturday) each of which will include papers, performances and presentations into the evening as workshops by Tony White and Barbara Campbell (Friday) and Margaret Cameron on the performed essay, and Jude Walton on writing dance (Saturday).

To register and book your place go to  www.yorksj.ac.uk/writingencounters <https://email.yorksj.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://email.yorksj.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://email.yorksj.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/writingencounters>

Or contact James Alexander at York St John University:

Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>     Telephone: 01904 876433

Symposium information and programme can also be found at http://www.thespacebetweenwords.org/ <https://email.yorksj.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.thespacebetweenwords.org/>

Writing Encounters is curated by Claire Hind and Claire MacDonald and is a partnership production between York St John University and the space between words.

Proceedings from the symposium will inform a special issue of the journal of Writing in Creative Practice to be edited by Dr Susan Orr and Claire Hind. For more information on this please go to:

http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=JournalWritingCreativePractice <https://email.yorksj.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://email.yorksj.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=JournalWritingCreativePractice>

Claire

Claire Hind

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

York St John University

Lord Mayors Walk

York

Y031 7EX

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