Following a captivating evening of poetry and architectural music Wordjammin' and Australia Poetry Ltd are pleased to present the second and final Tuning in the World for 2011.

As part of Sydney Fringe in September Canadian wordsmith Shane Koyczan, American Scottish poet in residence Ryan Van Winkle and up and coming Sydney poet Jesse Willisee gave voice to their words to improvised music by bassist Phil Stack and guitarist Carl Dewhurst. Next Wednesday is set to be another special evening of poetry and improvised music featuring established Sydney poet John Carey. Carey has performed Australia's much loved modernist poet Kenneth Slessor's work in Darlinghurst Nights and City Nightfall at the Sydney Writers Festival and Sydney Fringe 2010. His poetry is widely published in various state, national and international journals, literary magazines and poetry collections. Gareth Jenkins is no stranger to performing his poetry in experimental, collaborative ways. Jenkins has performed with classical ensembles, sound artists and media artists in live exhibited installations in varying on site and off site locations. The music will take on its own unique composition when for the first time on stage together will be the experienced musicianship of Trevor Brown on saxophone, Waiting for Guinness and Jonathan Swartz on Bass with Alex Masso on drums. The evening will be hosted by Angela Stretch media poet and presenter of Talking Through Your Arts, 2SER-FM.

This event has been made possible with the kind support of Marrickville Council.

Door: $15.

ARTIST BIOS

JOHN CAREY is an ex-teacher of French and Latin and a former actor, mostly with new Theatre at Newtown. He is mostly a page poet, published in The Canberra Times, Blast, Blue Dog, Island, Meanjin, Southerly and Quadrant. 

GARETH JENKINS is a writer, multi-media performer and educator. He has taught creative writing, poetry and literary theory at numerous universities and runs poetry writing workshops with The Red Room Company in schools and jails.

TREVOR BROWN is a multi-instrumentlist who has collaborated with many of Australia's finest performance poets, Miles Merrill, Tug Dumbly, Edwina Blush, Lisa Greenaway, Phil Norton, and composed for widely for theatre and dance including productions at STC, Belvoir, Sydney Dance, Dance North.  

JONATHAN SWARTZ on Bass, is one of Australia's leading jazz musicians. He's worked with a vast array of musical luminaries from, locally, Vince Jones to Renee Geyer, and, internationally, from Pharoah Sanders and Branfrod Marsalis to Nigel Kennedy.

ALEX MASSO on Drums, plays with new-jazz-sound-on-the-bloc k-band The Vampires, Trio Apoplectic and is in demand in the improvisation and experimental scene. He is currently teaching Jazz at Wollongong Conservatorium

ANGELA STRETCH is a media poet whose work extends to visual art that explores poetry and text with audio-visual technologies. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions in Sydney and interstate. She was awarded winner and people’s choice prize for Amnesty International’s Freedom Art Competition 2008. She was awarded highly recommended at the Marrickville Art Prize 2009.  

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