A Place Free of Judgement
On 29 October 2016, over the course of nine hours, teenagers in Worcester, Telford and Cannock will be taking control of their local libraries, and performing live to a worldwide audience. Through a unique project supported by Arts Connect and ASCEL West Midlands, the group have been working with award-winning artists Blast Theory and author Tony White (above) to reimagine libraries, storytelling and their place in the world. This work will come to life in an ambitious and fun nine-hour takeover of the three libraries, starting in Telford (3pm – 6pm), then Cannock (6pm – 9pm) and ending in Worcester
Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan
Congratulations from 3:AM to Bob Dylan for winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. ‘If it is possible to produce misery one should produce it thus.’ Kafka. ‘Nothing can be drawn from these outbursts, this turmoil of death, that a non-poetic language could express… the poetic vision is not submitted to common reduction…‘ Bataille ‘He’s the imperishable actor whose confirmed sophistication drives a drama that’s fugitive, driven in an operation that’s always changing physically, materially, visibly
The Missing Links
Reading the illegible. * Deconstruction — an American tale. * Adam Biles on ultimate questions. * Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company (podcast). * Shirley Jackson‘s disappearing act. * Ennio Morricone‘s Il Gruppo. * My erstwhile neighbour Marcello Mastroianni. * Former 3:AMer Jude Rogers reviews Simon Reynolds‘s Shock and Awe. * My review of Grand Hotel Abyss in the Irish Times. * Max Porter on grief and creativity. * Deborah Levy: “Yet, it’s when I detour from the map and get lost that the writing starts to open its eyes”. * Deborah Levy on mothers and daughters in literature:
De Niro On Trump: ‘Nuff Said
Who says serious political protest can’t be earnest & hilarious all at once?
Fiction submissions now open
For a limited time, 3:AM is pleased to welcome submissions of fiction and prose for online publication. The editors share a particular interest in writing that is linguistically and formally experimental. We value the bold, the considered and the deft. The window for submissions begins today 4 October 2016 and will remain open for four weeks: the closing date for submissions is 4 November 2016 (GMT). Any work sent after midnight on this date will not be considered. Please find a list of guidelines as per the submissions process below. We look forward to reading your work. — Eley
Roll Over Atlantic by John Agard
Crosspath Theatre with Tilt presents Roll Over Atlantic Written and Performed by John Agard One of Britain’s foremost cross-cultural voices and winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Caribbean-British poet John Agard performs a quirky reimagining of the notorious voyage of Christopher Columbus. UK Touring Oct 2016 – May 2017 LIMITED PRESS TICKETS AVAILABLE: 14, 15 and 16 October, The Royal Festival Hall A creative departure from his many poetry collections, John Agard brings his irreverent wit from page to stage, as he variously takes on the voices of Christopher Columbus, the Atlantic, a native shaman, a mutinous crew,
Monsanto on Trial: London
OCT 07 Monsanto on trial: London by Global Justice Now Free Fri 7 October 2016, 18:30 – 21:30 Event Information DESCRIPTION This October, seed and pesticide corporation Monsanto is facing an international court in The Hague. While this is just a symbolic people’s court, the witnesses and judges are real. They have been called because they have suffered human rights abuses, threats to their communities and destruction of their environment. Come and hear from one of these witnesses, Farida Akhter, who is touring around the UK before travelling to the Hague for the tribunal. Global Justice Now has commissioned photo
Jimmy Cauty Riot In A Jam Jar
Jimmy Cauty Riot In A Jam Jar at Modern Panic Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road 6th – 14th October More details on the Modern Panic website
Billy Childish at Frieze
Billy Childish at Frieze London with Carl Freedman Gallery Booth B18 Regent’s Park 6th – 9th October More details on the Frieze website
EVENT: Ben Lerner at the RCA
At 18.30 on Monday 10 October, Hatred of Poetry author Ben Lerner makes a rare London appearance at the Royal College of Art’s Kensington campus.
NY Art Book Fair Events: The Classroom Maija Timonen And Lizzie Homersham
SUNDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 1–2PM ‘There is a certain economy to relationships, one reflected in the language that often surrounds talking about them. Lets call it emonomics. People talk about “investing” in relationships, cutting their losses, also the word “value” (multifaceted as it is) features heavily in all sorts of self-helpish communications. When people consider their sense of self-worth, how (or whether) they are “valued” in their relationships, nobody ever seems to consider the hard sell, the flogging of your wares in a collapsed market.’ – from The Measure of Reality by Maija Timonen Maija Timonen and Lizzie Homersham will read
Turning Blue
Benjamin Myers has made a short film to accompany his new novel Turning Blue. Described by author Cathi Unsworth as “a queasily compulsive evocation of a wild and brutal Yorkshire landscape, informed and haunted in equal measure by the shades of Jimmy Savile and his monstrous deeds and the East Riding’s lost boy of crime fiction, Ted Lewis,” Turning Blue is out now on Moth/Mayfly. A sequel follows in 2017.
