Text Festival highlights innovative practice in text through a programme of exhibitions, public art commissions, films, publications and performances by internationally recognised practitioners and new talents in the field. In venues and sites across Bury in Manchester,

, this major British festival develops the practice of language in art as poetry and poetry as language art; and challenges the boundaries between both.

“'The singularities that serve to rupture and renew normative discourse always emerge from the interstices' (Foucault) – in other words, where nobody is looking. Almost certainly nobody was looking in the direction of Bury for the emergence of this significant project.” – Art Monthly Magazine.

Opening 30^th April – an evening of international poetry film.
Friday 1 May – The Agency of Words Exhibition preview (7:00pm-9 pm) – plus a reading by Geof Huth

Bury Art Gallery & Museum

Moss St., Bury, Gtr. Manchester, BL9 ODA, United Kingdom

Saturday 2 May

2pm The Bury Poems - readings by Tony Lopez, Carol Watts, Phil Davenport and at 7.30pm

Ron Silliman (first UK performance), Geof Huth, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Claus van Blebber, Catriona Glover

Bury Met Arts Centre

Market St., Bury, Gtr. Manchester, BL9 OBW, United Kingdom

Box Office 0161 761 2216

The Festival includes: P.Inman, Jesse Glass, Nick Thurston, Judy Kendall; performances by Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Claus van Blebber, Sarah Tremlett. a plus ground-breaking new approach to historic archives including works by Jenny Holzer, Geof Huth,Carolyn Thompson, and Shaun Pickard. New visual and sound works by Ben Gwilliam, Patrick Fabian Pannetta, Ming Wong, Nick Thurston, Sarah Sanders, Liz Collini, Debbie Booth, Irene Barbaris, David Alker, Joe Devlin, Lisa Stansbie, Spencer Roberts, Catriona Glover.