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Spoken Word

Spoken Word
Admn: £4
 Tue 21 May 7pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

Zurab Tsereteli: Moscow Court Artist Of The 1990s
From the 1990s the face of central Moscow was transformed by the monumental art of the mayor’s favourite artist, Zurab Tsereteli. Paul will look at his four massive projects in central Moscow; Statue of Peter The Great, Cathedral of Christ Our Saviour, Victory Park, and Okhotny Ryad Shopping Mall). Paul will trace his career from his days as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi through to his appointment as president of the Russian Academy of Arts. During the 1990s, Tsereteli’s art got mixed up with dirty politics and he has often been a controversial figure. His art features in many countries as well as filling two large galleries in the centre of Russia’s capital city.
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Spoken Word
Admn: £10
 Tue 04 Jun 7:30pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

Join Felicity Aston, the first and only woman in the world to ski across Antarctica alone, as she presents her beguiling talk Alone In Antarctica.
At the end of November 2011, Felicity set off from the coast of Antarctica on the Ross Ice Shelf to cross the entire continent on skis by herself. Ahead of her was a tortuous 1744km (1084 mile) journey. The physical challenges of the 59-day journey are astonishing but it is the mental hardships that Felicity describes that are the most memorable. The crushing solitude and emotional turmoil, and a rather strange relationship with the sun!
Her wonderful talk includes original images and footage from the expedition.
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Spoken Word
Admn: £8
 Wed 05 Jun 8pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER – LOCAL & VOCAL!
With Special Guest DAVID ROVICS (USA)
Southwick performance poet/musician Attila has done over 2800 gigs in 24 countries in the past 33 years, but no matter where he has wandered, the Adur district, the harbour and the sea, the local pubs and the Albion have always been his home: his family roots in Southwick go back to the 18th century. Now, in tune with this year’s Adur Festival theme ‘Living Maps’, for the first time ever he has put together a set of exclusively locally based material. Find out how Southwick is like Amsterdam. Enjoy the utterly surreal parochiality of a Shoreham Herald headline. Meet Southwick’s first ever OAP rapper, T-Dance. Hear the true story of the religious conversion of Southwick’s most horrible pub and of how the simple act of collecting frogspawn made Attila the most unpopular pedestrian on the A27. Experience a romantic stroll on Worthing beach when the seaweed is ripe, and one on Southwick beach when the sewage is in full flow…
And of course, Attila will perform his most celebrated local poems. ‘Goldstone Ghosts’, the story of his life as an Albion fan and his part in the battle to save the club, now covers one of the walls in Dick’s Bar at the Amex. And ‘The Long Goodbye’, featured on Radio Four’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ and ‘Pick of the Week’, and Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’ is the life story of his late mother Muriel, who was at Bletchley Park during the war, played a very active role in the Southwick community for nearly 50 years and, improbably, occasionally joined her punk rock son on tour! Written for her in the last stages of her battle with Alzheimer’s Disease to help her remember her life, sales of this poem have to date raised over £1,500 for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Special guest is Attila’s friend and sometime touring partner, the superb radical singer/songwriter DAVID ROVICS from Portland USA – fresh from this year’s Glastonwick Festival. “If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.” ~ Andy Kershaw, BBC
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Spoken Word
Admn: £12.50
 Wed 12 Jun 8pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

Come and hear Polly Toynbee & David Walker speak on the most pressing topical subjects of the day.
Polly Toynbee has been a political and social commentator for The Guardian since 1998 and is one of the most influential columnists in the UK. In 2003 she was declared ‘Political Journalist Of The Year’. In 2007 she was named ‘Columnist Of The Year‘ at the British Press Awards.
David Walker is a journalist, broadcaster and author. A regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Analysis programme, David also is a well-known commentator on public affairs, and a former local government correspondent.
Their books include Did Things Get Better? An Audit of Labour’s Successes & Failures, and Better Or Worse? Did Labour Deliver?
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Spoken Word
Admn: £8
 Tue 25 Jun 7pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

City Books present an evening with Anna Webb and Jo Good to help launch their fabulous new book Barking Blondes.
‘If Dorothy Parker had woken up as Barbara Woodhouse, she might have written this book. Wildly droll. I loved it‘ ~ Julie Burchill
Anna Webb and Jo Good are the Barking Blondes: broadcasters, journalists and dog obsessives. They co-present the world’s only radio show dedicated to dogs, BBC London Radio’s Barking At The Moon. Barking Blondes publishes in June 2013 and this is your opportunity to hear extracts from this new book followed by a Q&A session with Anna and Jo.
Signed first edition copies of Barking Blondes will be available on the night.
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Spoken Word
Admn: £8
 Tue 02 Jul 7pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

City Books present an evening with Kate Humble to launch her superb new book Humble By Nature.
In 2010, television presenter Kate Humble learned that a nearby farm in the Wye Valley where she had lived for three years was set to be sold off. Kate contacted the local council with an alternative plan; to keep the farm a working farm. What follows is a highly personal account of Kate’s move from a London house with 20 square feet of garden, to a Welsh smallholding with four acres, to becoming the owner of a farm with 117 acres of land! Humble by Nature is the story of two people prepared to follow their hearts and save a small part of British farming heritage, whatever the consequences.
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Spoken Word
Admn: £8
 Thu 04 Jul 5:30pm
@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Ropetackle Arts Centre
 BN43 5EG

City Books present an evening with Richard Madeley to celebrate the release of his first novel Some Day I’ll Find You.
From the author of self-penned and critically acclaimed memoir, Fathers & Sons, comes a brilliant new book which begins in WW2… with an irresistible hook.
Alongside his wife Judy Finnigan, Richard Madeley presented the enormously successful Richard & Judy television show which ran on Channel 4 for seven years. In 2008 he published his bestselling and much praised memoir.
This special evening will also feature Judy in conversation with Richard, as well as an exclusive book reading and signing. There will also be the chance to ask Richard about the book.
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