Week Three
Week Three//Tuesday 21st February
We present an evening of Live Lyrics and Beatjazz, hosted by the incomparable Paula Varjack
Doors 20.00
Show Starts at: 20.30
Entrance €5
Altes Finanzamt
Schönstedtstraße 7
Neukölln
12043 Berlin
Hosted by Paula Varjack
The closing event in our series.
An evening of live music, prose and performance poetry.
Featuring a dynamic line up of exciting established artists from Berlin and London.
Photo Credit: Pauline Beaudemont
Black Cracker is a two-time USA National Poetry Slam champion and influential figure within Urban Word NYC, one of the nation’s leading literary and performance organizations for youth. He has represented the USA in festivals from South Africa to Slovenia as well as being feature in documentaries such as “Spitting Ink”. His first solo manuscript, 40oz Elephant has been recently published by Bob Holman’s Bowery Books.
“Black Cracker is able to lead the reader by the hand through mindscapes of improbable logic and arrive at a destination that makes perfect sense.”
Mike Ladd, Poet/Music Producer
“Black Cracker’s poems make pop culture timeless, and ageless abstractions like love lust laughter relevant all over again. Nothing here is two-dimensional, this isn’t a book, it’s a concert.”
Michael Cirelli, Author
Salena Godden’s latest collection ‘Under The Pier’ was published by hip-indie imprint Nasty Little Press in 2011. Most recently her work has appeared in Shortfire Press, Illustrated Ape Magazine, Trespass Magazine, Paraphilia, Rising, Teller Magazine, The Mechanics Institute Review published by Birkbeck University, Picador’s Punk Fiction and Parthian Books Raconteur. Her poetry featured in the three latest anthologies from Tangerine Press titled Dwang. Salena Godden hosts and produces The Book Club Boutique - Soho’s hippest literary salon – soliciting their own unique brand of Books, Booze and Boogie-Woogie. Salena features regularly on BBC’s ‘The Verb’ and ‘Bespoken Word’ and is among the poets in residence on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Live’.
Salena facilitates workshops for First Story - a charity created by author William Fiennes - that aims to foster and nurture literacy and creative writing in secondary schools.
Out Now ‘UNDER THE PIER’ published by Nasty Little Press: www.nastylittlepress.org
Out Now: SIXTY-SIX Books: http://oberonbooks.com/66-books.html
Out Now: RACONTEUR: http://www.parthianbooks.com/content/raconteur-america
For quick updates twitter: @BookCBoutique or @salenagodden or @wearesaltpeter
Also check out these sites for more published work by Salena Godden:
www.shortfirepress.com / www.paraphiliamagazine.com / www.tellermagazine.com / www.eatmytangerin
Onyx sounds like the offspring of Roger Troutman, Timbaland, and John Coltrane. having cut his teeth playing the southern California rave scene in the late 90’s, he spent the first half of the the 2k’s playing and recording with the likes of Soul II Soul, Basement Jaxx and Marshall Jefferson. The last 3 years has seen him take on the challenge of creating a new form of music for a new age. a form un-encumbered by genre. Armed with a computer full of the best software synthesizers, onyx can construct any style of music imaginable and quite a few that aren’t. Onyx has now begun his new sonic journey in earnest and plans nothing less than to change the entire infrastructure of what the world calls music and to inject a much needed “live-ness” to electronic music culture by not only performing beatjazz, but also sharing his concept with the world as an open source project-controller plans, as well as musical concepts- so that beatjazz may virally find its way into every aspect of modern music. Beatjazz is natural progression and result of the atomization of music culture.
OneNess is a singer, song writer, spoken word lyricist, director and actress. Born and raised in London OneNess has been performing since the age of eight. Her exceptional spoken word/singer songwriting abilities has entertained an array of audiences, ranging from BBC Radio listeners to live venues such as Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury Festival & Jazz Café. She has shared stages with artists such as Mica Paris, Terri Walker, Swiss, Black Twang, Dead Prez & many more. Her remarkable talent has also made her a star of the stage and screen, performing on national and international stages ranging from the USA to Norway. As a member of London’s finest poetry collective the ‘Best Kept Secret’, OneNess became the first person out side of the USA to win a prize at The Toronto International Poetry Slam, whilst the collective were on tour in Canada.
As well as developing as a performing artist she is constantly involved in supporting her community. She’s worked with women’s groups, liberation campaigns, progressive grass root organisations and student activism. Her aim is “to live and travel beyond the words she speaks and she prays that she will be brave enough to walk the path that the ancestors have laid before her”.
Week Three
Week Three//Tuesday 21st February
We present an evening of Live Lyrics and Beatjazz, hosted by the incomparable Paula Varjack
Doors 20.00
Show Starts at: 20.30
Entrance €5
Altes Finanzamt
Schönstedtstraße 7
Neukölln
12043 Berlin
Hosted by Paula Varjack
The closing event in our series.
An evening of live music, prose and performance poetry.
Featuring a dynamic line up of exciting established artists from Berlin and London.
Photo Credit: Pauline Beaudemont
Black Cracker is a two-time USA National Poetry Slam champion and influential figure within Urban Word NYC, one of the nation’s leading literary and performance organizations for youth. He has represented the USA in festivals from South Africa to Slovenia as well as being feature in documentaries such as “Spitting Ink”. His first solo manuscript, 40oz Elephant has been recently published by Bob Holman’s Bowery Books.
“Black Cracker is able to lead the reader by the hand through mindscapes of improbable logic and arrive at a destination that makes perfect sense.”
Mike Ladd, Poet/Music Producer
“Black Cracker’s poems make pop culture timeless, and ageless abstractions like love lust laughter relevant all over again. Nothing here is two-dimensional, this isn’t a book, it’s a concert.”
Michael Cirelli, Author
Salena Godden’s latest collection ‘Under The Pier’ was published by hip-indie imprint Nasty Little Press in 2011. Most recently her work has appeared in Shortfire Press, Illustrated Ape Magazine, Trespass Magazine, Paraphilia, Rising, Teller Magazine, The Mechanics Institute Review published by Birkbeck University, Picador’s Punk Fiction and Parthian Books Raconteur. Her poetry featured in the three latest anthologies from Tangerine Press titled Dwang. Salena Godden hosts and produces The Book Club Boutique - Soho’s hippest literary salon – soliciting their own unique brand of Books, Booze and Boogie-Woogie. Salena features regularly on BBC’s ‘The Verb’ and ‘Bespoken Word’ and is among the poets in residence on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Live’.
Salena facilitates workshops for First Story - a charity created by author William Fiennes - that aims to foster and nurture literacy and creative writing in secondary schools.
Out Now ‘UNDER THE PIER’ published by Nasty Little Press: www.nastylittlepress.org
Out Now: SIXTY-SIX Books: http://oberonbooks.com/66-books.html
Out Now: RACONTEUR: http://www.parthianbooks.com/content/raconteur-america
For quick updates twitter: @BookCBoutique or @salenagodden or @wearesaltpeter
Also check out these sites for more published work by Salena Godden:
www.shortfirepress.com / www.paraphiliamagazine.com / www.tellermagazine.com / www.eatmytangerin
Onyx sounds like the offspring of Roger Troutman, Timbaland, and John Coltrane. having cut his teeth playing the southern California rave scene in the late 90’s, he spent the first half of the the 2k’s playing and recording with the likes of Soul II Soul, Basement Jaxx and Marshall Jefferson. The last 3 years has seen him take on the challenge of creating a new form of music for a new age. a form un-encumbered by genre. Armed with a computer full of the best software synthesizers, onyx can construct any style of music imaginable and quite a few that aren’t. Onyx has now begun his new sonic journey in earnest and plans nothing less than to change the entire infrastructure of what the world calls music and to inject a much needed “live-ness” to electronic music culture by not only performing beatjazz, but also sharing his concept with the world as an open source project-controller plans, as well as musical concepts- so that beatjazz may virally find its way into every aspect of modern music. Beatjazz is natural progression and result of the atomization of music culture.
OneNess is a singer, song writer, spoken word lyricist, director and actress. Born and raised in London OneNess has been performing since the age of eight. Her exceptional spoken word/singer songwriting abilities has entertained an array of audiences, ranging from BBC Radio listeners to live venues such as Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury Festival & Jazz Café. She has shared stages with artists such as Mica Paris, Terri Walker, Swiss, Black Twang, Dead Prez & many more. Her remarkable talent has also made her a star of the stage and screen, performing on national and international stages ranging from the USA to Norway. As a member of London’s finest poetry collective the ‘Best Kept Secret’, OneNess became the first person out side of the USA to win a prize at The Toronto International Poetry Slam, whilst the collective were on tour in Canada.
As well as developing as a performing artist she is constantly involved in supporting her community. She’s worked with women’s groups, liberation campaigns, progressive grass root organisations and student activism. Her aim is “to live and travel beyond the words she speaks and she prays that she will be brave enough to walk the path that the ancestors have laid before her”.
