I am very happy to be curating Don’t Land My Starship an evening of poetry, live music and DJing
THE PEOPLE:
Marcio Martinez is a DJ and music researcher from Brazil now based in London. He is a member of The BBE Store team in East London, has a radio show on Dublab Brasil and runs his personal project called LDOE - Last Day On Earth..."If today was my last day on earth this would be my playlist."
https://www.mixcloud.com/lastdayonearth/
Thodoris Ziarkas is an improviser, double bassist and composer born in Rhodes, Greece and currently based in London. He is mainly involved with jazz, improvisation and folk music from around the world. One of his major project, Valia Calda, draws influences from jazz and Greek folk and tangles between electronic music and free improvisation. His solo double bass work, debut album "Monologue 01" was released in 2017. His new material culminated in a release entitled "Stillness", that was a result of an artist residency at Cinema Mele in Calabria, Italy.
http://www.thodorisziarkas.co.uk/
Tom Sochas is a Franco-American was born and raised in Paris, France and moved to the UK in 2008. Tom is a very versatile pianist and composers. He is bandleader for Phoenician Blinds that was nominated for an UMA Award for Best Jazz Act 2018. He composes for theatre, recent work include five pieces for Maite Jáuregui's one woman show UNA.
https://www.tomsochas.com/
Tim Atkins is a poet, playwright, and prose writer, and his work has been widely published in the USA, Canada, UK, and Europe. He is the author of many books, including Atkins Collected Petrarch (a Times Literary Supplement and Salon.com book of the year), Deep Osaka (a photobook), Koto Y Yo (all from Crater Press), On Fathers < On Daughtyrs (Boiler House Press), 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Petrarch (Book Thug), and Horace (O Books). His current work is the long poem NOTHING CONCLUSIVE HAS YET TAKEN PLACE IN THE WORLD THE ULTIMATE WORD OF THE WORLD AND ABOUT THE WORLD HAS NOT YET BEEN SPOKEN THE WORLD IS OPEN AND FREE EVERYTHING IS STILL IN THE FUTURE AND WILL ALWAYS BE and sections are appearing in poetry journals in the USA, the UK, and Canada.
http://www.onedit.net/timatkins_author/timatkins_author_index.html
THE NIGHT: (more details soon)
Tim Atkins - poetry
Thodoris Ziarkas - solo double bass
Maddalena Ghezzi and Tom Sochas - voice, piano, electronics - original composition and more
Marcio Martinez - DJ
Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dont-land-my-starship-tickets-72969344273
eventbrite £5 + £0.80eventbrite fee
door £7
Doors 7:30/Live music 8:30 - 11:00/DJ from 11:00