Vox Night returns! (31st January, 5-8pm)
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Vox Sheffield in Blog, Events, Vox Night
Vox Night returns! We’ve got great plans for 2010, starting with a wonderful line up of the best music, words and art Sheffield has to offer – all for free.
Confirmed so far for the 31st January (5-8pm at the Riverside Live):
MUSIC
Andrew Clegg
Virtuoso guitarist and Cubanas regular ANDREW CLEGG will bring a bit of Mediterranean sunshine to our grim northern winter with incredible flamenco and Latin American music.
‘A rare talent’ – Yorkshire Post
Have a listen here: http://www.myspace.com/andrewcleggguitar
W.P.K. Wiliams
Music by this Sheffield based songwriter can be heard here: http://www.myspace.com/abstraccas
SPOKEN WORD
This month we’re very privileged to have Sheffield poet HELEN MORT with us at Vox. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition, and winner of the Manchester Young Poet Prize (2008), Helen’s work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies including Tower Poetry, The Rialto and Poetry London. Her pamphlet, ‘the shape of every box’, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2007, the same year she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She has performed her work at the Ledbury Festival, at St Anza in Scotland, at the Oxford Literary Festival and in Buckingham Palace. She is currently working towards a first full collection. She runs a Poetry Society Stanza and is part of the CB1 Poetry steering group, hosting readings in Cambridge city centre.
- Poetry PF - http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/helenmortpage.html
- A Pint for the Ghost - http://www.apintfortheghost.blogspot.com/
- Tall-Lighthouse - http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/p_helen-mort.html
ART
This month we’ll have an exhibition from Sheffield artist ISOBELLE TAYLOR. After completing her art degree at Reading University Isabelle returned to Sheffield where she has been involved in a number of projects and exhibitions in photography, textiles and on canvas. This is her second appearance at Vox, and she’ll be displaying photography from recent travels around Africa.
We have setup a Facebook Event for this Vox Night so if you’re on Facebook connect there too to stay in the loop.
