Sottovoce is a London-based experimental live platform focused on showcasing groundbreaking acts with a combination of un-amplified acts (jazz, improv and traditional folk) in one space alternating with louder acts (generally of noise music or guitar-based amplifications) in the other. Sottovoce aims to present, introduce and showcase challenging, out of the ordinary musical acts, trying to expose experimental music to new audiences whilst maintaining the familiar crowd interested in new forms of presentation. Sottovoce is now in its third edition.

This months Talkaoke host training session is part of Barmy Park series of events happening at Bethnal Green Library. Barmy Park is a 14 day event of art, performance, poetry, music and madness… and Talkaoke will be there on 21st Sept from 6pm till 8pm as part of our host training session. So if your interested in having a chat, debat, supporting the new hosts or even having a go at hosting then pop over.

14 days of art, performance, poetry, music and madness…?

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/barmy-park

PROP: A group show of artists working with objects, images and interventions that suggest narrative or theatrical action.

Matt Ager, Thorbjørn Andersen, Louise Ashcroft, Roxane Borujerdi, Floss Cobb, Blue Curry, Paul Eachus, Douglas Ebbage, Sandra Erbacher, Livia Garcia, Rebecca Gould, Toby Huddlestone, Jonathan Kipps, Ladies of the Press, Simon Linington, littlewhitehead, Janko Matic, Christina Mitrentse, Laurence Payot, Tessa P...ower, Matthew Robinson, Ilona Sagar, Mark Selby, Jonathan Velardi, Charlotte Young, Neil Zakiewicz.

Is it possible to invent (new) media otherwise, without falling back onto their pre-determined patterns, models and hierarchies? The philosopher Gilles Deleuze encourages us to go beyond the established schools that regulate the creative process in the arts and media, and to recapture the creative functions of the media themselves that transcend their ‘author-function’.

Contact info(at)artevict.com for more information on the location, for any enquiries about ArtEvict, or if you would like to participate in ArtEvict.

First Earth is about a massive paradigm shift for shelter—building
healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and
living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An
audiovisual manifesto filmed over four years on four continents, it
proposes that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world;
and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, we
must transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages.

First Earth is not a how-to film, but a why-to film. It establishes

The British Humanist Association as part of the Protest the Pope campaign presents Relief-O-Matic.

Are your eyes often dry and tired in the evening? Do you suffer from those stubborn, hard to remove stains? Relief-O-Matic can’t help you. But our patent-pending evening of comedy, stories and music is guaranteed to leave you feeling invigorated.

Relief-O-Matic has no shareholders. All profits to AIDS prevention and relief projects.

Angelo Quattrocchi’s The Pope is Not Gay! will launch on the 14th September at the Southbank Centre, from 6:30-9:00pm at September’s Polari, London’s “peerless gay literary salon”. Host Paul Burston presents readings from the book, musicians and performers protesting the Pope, including:

* David Hoyle: An artist working across stage, television and film, David Hoyle “embraces controversy as easily as he embraces the avant garde.”
* Ste McCabe: One-man-band who “blends punk rock riffs, pop melodies and retro beats with sarcastic, radical, queer, feminist lyrics.”

A look at life inside one of the notorious Magdalene Asylums where women – who the Catholic Church adjudged to have stepped out of line in some way – were incarcerated and abused. A chilling portrayal of what happens when the state gives unfettered power to a religious institution which then uses it to literally batter the population into submission. Survivors of the Magdalene laundries are still fighting for the Vatican to recognise the enormous suffering inflicted on them by the Church.

Come and take part in Street Training Hoxton - First session THIS SUNDAY at
Hoxton Hall

The unfolding story of a collective assault on the culture of fear and cynicism that pervades urban city streets.
We meet at the theatre. Perhaps we might get a glimpse of something precious in the world around us? Maybe we will find out how to be more joyful in the city...
Each performance will be different as we remake the streets together.