poetry@fedsquare Saturday 16 August 2014
Beer DeLuxe upstairs – Federation Square
2-4pm
Featuring Adrian Grima
Accompanied by Nick Tsiavos
Dear poets and lovers of poetry
poetry@fedsquare swims internationaly this month with our international visitor poet Adrian Grima from Malta who will be accompanied by one of our most acclaimed local musicians Nick Tsiavos
Plus our usual, wonderful and very helpful open mic readers
Adrian Grima (Malta, 1968) has published prize-winning collections of poetry in Maltese that has been translated into sixteen languages. Book collections of his poetry have appeared in Italian, French, German, and English. He has read at festivals in the Mediterranean, Europe, Bali, and, most recently in Granada, Nicaragua. He has read with musicians playing jazz, classical, funk, and world music. He reads his work mainly in Maltese and English, but above all he is passionate about rhythm and the unpredictability of language. http://www.adriangrima.com
Nick Tsiavos is a bassist and composer whose work operates at the intersections of a number of cultural boundaries: from 8th century chant to contemporary minimalism, from syncretic hybridisation to experimental improvisation, from church to pub to concert hall. Since 1994, Tsiavos has been developing new music for the solo bass. As an ‘ethnic’ musician he is interested in, and informed by, non-canonical discourse, while refusing the tokenism that ethnicity often entails. Tsiavos has performed as a bass soloist at various venues throughout Australia. As the group’s artistic director, Tsiavos has produced a dark and confronting examination of Medieval and Byzantine chant. His group Jouissance has toured internationally and throughout Australia. The rest you are also discovered on the day http://nicktsiavos.net
Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of every month (except December and January) under the Federation Square and the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Contact details
Dimitris Troaditis
poetryfedsquare@gmail.com
troaditisdimitris@gmail.com
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