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Thu 7 - Wed 20 Apr (ex. 16 Apr)CybraphonRichmix Cafe | 11am-5pm daily | FREE Cybraphon is the Bafta Award-winning autonomous emotional robot indie band. Created by Edinburgh-based music and arts collective FOUND, Cybraphon is an interactive, mechanical band consisting of acoustic instruments, antique machinery and found objects played by over 60 robot beaters and motors – all housed in an antique wooden display case. Cybraphon wants to be popular. [...] |
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Fri 8 - Sat 23 AprThe Quiet Volumeby Ant Hampton & Tim EtchellsBishopsgate Institute Library - April 8, 11-15 The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated performance for two at a time, exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different people’s experiences of reading unfold. Two readers sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words both written and whispered they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path [...] |
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Sat 9 - Sun 10 AprilThis is just to sayby Hannah Jane WalkerToynbee Arts Cafe & Bar Why do we say sorry? And how do we say it like we really mean it? Hannah Jane Walker hosts an intimate round table performance with a small, invited audience, sifting the genuine from the insincere, drawing on her personal experiences as a serial apologist in emotionally valiant and surprising ways. Secret notes, screened calls [...] |
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Tue 12 AprilBooks vs. CigarettesRobin Ince, Stuart Evers, John-Luke Roberts, Matthew Crosby, Rich Sandling, Martin Austwick & Ben MoorPlus! 'Gorge Orwell' with the author's own cakes & marmalade & Aleks Krotoski exhibition Book habits. Costly business. In his 1946 essay, George Orwell compared the cost of reading with more proletariat pursuits and calculated his book consumption at 9s 9d a week. Equivalent to 83 Players Special, or four ounces of tobacco at the time. Which pursuit gives more pleasure? Orwell defended reading as an inclusive and affordable [...] |
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Sun 17 AprScrabble Sunday TournamentPembury Tavern | 3pm | FREE Our friends from Scrabble Sunday return with a Word Festival special. An afternoon of knockout word-battle in East London’s best boardgaming pub. We bring the boards, you bring the vocab. Compete for the Scrabble Sunday cup and excellent prizes or drop in and play a social game. For those (oddcakes) who don’t care for the [...] |
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Mon 18 AprPrivate ViewBaby Oil & Ice by Lara Clifton
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Tue 19 AprMan/MachinePaul Granjon + FOUND + Ross Sutherland + Nikesh Shukla + Tamarin Norwood + MC Nathan Penlington
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Thu 21 AprNo Furniture So CharmingPhilip Jones, Nora Daly, Chris Meade, Charles Holland, Jon Stone & Kirsty Irving, Peter Law, Dan Thompson, Trenton Oldfield, Tom Armitage, Nicky Kirk, Rachel Coldicutt & Ruth Beale
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Sat 23 AprKing James Bible BashNathan Jones, Henningham Family Press, Kerry Yong, Kerri Meehan & Sophie Von Cundale, Marcus Orlandi + screening of Buckminster Fuller's film Modeling Universe
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Tue 26 AprIntergender WrestlingDevised by Mel Brimfield
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Wed 27 AprThe Goodbye Libraryby Emmy The Great & Jack Underwood
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Thu 28 AprLike You Were Beforeby Debbie PearsonStoke Newington International Airport “Debbie Pearson’s piece uses old video footage to explore the gap between the person she was in 2005 before she left her native Canada, and the person she is now. The person she was is a ghost behind the camera, never as in focus as the laughing female friends she will soon wave goodbye to; [...] |
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Thu 28 AprKeep Breathingby Chris GoodeStoke Newington International Airport Nitrogen, oxygen and argon; love, laughter and longing; hopes, ideas, testimony. Breath — as evanescent as theatre, and every bit as full of incident and promise. In this early draft showing of a brand new piece of evolving, responsive storytelling, Chris Goode looks at what can be found, said and shared in one brief, vital [...] |
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Fri 29 Apr - Sun 1 MayThe CrashDevised by Tom Basden, Francesca Millican-Slater,
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Tue 3 MayChristian Bök+ Luke Kennard
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Wed 4 MayAlan Moore’s Dodgem LogicStewart Lee, Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Savage Pencil, Melinda Gebbie, Kevin O'Neill & The Retro SpankeesRound Chapel Alan Moore’s reinvigoration of the underground fanzine, Dodgem Logic, comes alive in the non-conformist surroundings of Hackney’s Round Chapel. A night of art, comedy, comment and put-something-back localism. Released bi-monthly since 2009, Dodgem Logic is equal parts escapist entertainment, social curiosity and grassroots activism: a formidable pick-and-mix of hardworking humour and indie-essaying. An ink-stained-mantle-carrier for [...] |
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Thu 5 MayBe Seeing YouTim Key, Will Adamsdale, David Trent, Thom Tuck
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Across the FestivalLadies of the Press*
Ladies of the Press* are Ana ?avi? and Renée O’Drobinak: a performative press duo that re-imagines the role of the publisher into a theatrical persona. Mincing together print and performance in impromptu settings, they’ll be pitching up their travelling micro-newsroom across the festival, and responding to the evening’s proceedings in their various guises. For their [...] |
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London Word Festival is a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award |
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