Robert Lloyd plays Dylan Thomas – poetry@fedsquare – Saturday, 18 October 2014

poetry@fedsquare

Robert Lloyd plays Dylan Thomas

Federation Square

Either at The Atrium or Beer DeLuxe upstairs

Saturday, 18 October 2014 2-4pm

Dear poets and lovers of poetry,

26 October 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great poet Dylan Thomas. Poetry@fedsquare celebrates this occasion together with Robert Lloyd, a Melbourne-based composer, singer-songwriter and poet, and cellist Adi Sappir.

Plus of course our lovely open mic readers.

Robert Lloyd took his mother’s ashes home when he visited the Wales of her forbears while tracing the origins of his hero, poet Dylan Thomas.

Lloyd will celebrate the centenary of the Welsh poet’s birth at Federation Square on October 16. He with cellist Adi Sappir will perform poems he has set to music and songs inspired by the 2012 trip in which he visited Thomas’ birthplace in Swansea, the Welsh fishing village of Laugharne, where he lived with his family, and the Chelsea Hotel, in New York City, where he was staying at the time of his death in November 1953.

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Lloyd is a classically trained musician whose projects include music for Ohio Ballet’s Feral, Bold New Buildings for Australian Dance Theatre and Time Being Time, a one-hour work for singers, spoken voices, strings and percussion premiered in 1999 at the Supreme Court building in Darwin. He has turned to solo performance in recent years and, backed by Sappir, will perform versions of Thomas’s poems including In my craft or sullen art and a villanelle inspired by Thomas called Everyday my ancestors call me home. (Excerpt from a larger article Larry Shwartz pitched to The Age).

ADI

Adi Sappir writes songs with a cello in her hand. Over the past decade she has been exploring the possibilities of voice and cello, through an increasing collection of original songs. Her music is intimate and the lyrics are personal. Songs come out of a mix of Adi’s original Hebrew with her adopted English. They reflect her life as an immigrant in multicultural inner Melbourne. In late 2011 Adi recorded Insomnia as a reflection of her first decade of life in Australia.
Since 2003, Adi has been playing with seasoned musicians guitarist/singer Mark Ferrie and guitarist Andrew Pendlebury. They are The Mercurials.

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.

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Poetry@fedsquare is also proudly supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria

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