Vert Institutefor art events and writing ___________________________________ Sudden VERT – three new workshops Material language: visual and tactile writingKay Syrad & Clare Whistler Saturday 10th March, 3 – 6pm £20 Words have shapes, sounds, rhythm; to speak we must use complex interactions of our breath, tongue, lips. Words in the mouth or on the page […]
Greetings ! Please scroll down for details of three events. POETRY IN THE CRYPTSt Mary’s Church, Upper Street, Islington Saturday 22nd April, 7 p.m. Donald Atkinson, Lynne Hjelmgaard & Kay Syrad Admission £5 • Poets from the floor welcome • Free cakes & coffee!All proceeds to Hospice Care Kenya www.hospicecarekenya.com St Mary’s Church is on […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writingKay Syrad & Chris Drury___________________________________ ECO-POETICS WORKSHOP with poetry reading by Nancy Campbell& discussion with Chris Drury Saturday 6 May Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler will lead an eco-poetics workshop 10.30am – 3.30pm. At 4pm there will be a reading by award-winning artist and poet Nancy Campbell, who writes about […]
Seasonal greetings! This Sunday I shall be one of 60 poets (including Grace Nichols, Sarah Howe & Sasha Dugdale) raising funds for the Refugee Council. Take a look at our Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/teams/brightonpoemathon. Please come and support us ( I’m reading at 6.50pm). Meanwhile, apologies for the long blog silence. I have been in […]
NEWS… I shall be one of the featured poets reading at Perth Poetry Club,Western Australia, on Saturday 11th June, 2-4pm http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/ EXCHANGE – Chris Drury & Kay Syrad Exchange, the exhibition based on our Cape Farewell rural residency, will be shown at Schumacher College, Dartington, during the Symposium on Language, Landscape and the Sublime,29-30th June […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writingKay Syrad & Chris Drury Vert Institute, established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton, near Lewes. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writingKay Syrad and Chris Drury___________________________________ An experimental writing workshop Reverie and Transparency The workshop, led by Kay for poets or prose writers is designed to encourage free, clear writing by drawing on a study of ritual in creative practice by visual anthropologist, Amanda Ravetz, and the work of Swiss/Latin American […]
Greetings! Here is news of our new book and exhibition based on our Cape Farewell residency on three farms in Dorset: Please click on the link below for more details and the opportunity to buy a copy of this limited edition hardback book beautifully produced by Little Toller Books: http://littletoller.co.uk/bookshop/new-books/exchange/ A paperback version will also […]
Greetings for 2015 Please come to the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sunday 15th February for the ‘Dear Serge’ day, featuring an exhibition of 1000 tasks: work of the lightshipmen, my artist’s book created for the multi-media project Last Station, with installations by lead artists Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge, plus two human […]
The National Maritime has bought a copy of the book ‘work of the lightship men: 1000 tasks‘ that I created for the project Last Station (with lead artists Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge, see https://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Station-locateddislocated/107472156092970 for their permanent collection.