Is a picture worth a thousand words? Lewisham residents can come along and decide for themselves when South London writer and photographers of 'A Thousand Words' perform live literature at Lewisham library on Tuesday 27 January 2009.
The event is free of charge and doors open at 7.45pm when Joan Byrne, Anne-Marie Glasheen and Pia Randall-Goddard will read from their latest literary works and show small exhibits of their photography.
Joan Byrne is a writer and photographer. At the event Joan will read from her recent memoir, Dole Days, which charts her progress from managing director of a PR company to becoming a Jobseeker signing on in Peckham.
"When I signed on what I didn’t know was that I’d signed up to playing a bit-part in an absurdist drama that sometimes tripped into farce but could just as easily plunge into horror."
Going back and forth to the Jobcentre gave her the opportunity to build a collection of street photography focussed on Peckham, some of which she will show. Also, Joan will read a few poems; maybe a short story. Joan’s work has been published in the UK and USA. Her photography has been seen in numerous galleries. She won the Southwark Snapper Award in 2007.
Anne-Marie Glasheen will treat everyone to the poetry that inspired the current exhibition of her work on show in the Limelight Gallery at Lewisham library that will form the backdrop to the evening.
Ann-Marie is a poet, photographer, literary translator. Her early combinations of words (English and French) and images, inspired by Nunhead Cemetery, were first displayed in Peckham library in 2004. She has been published in Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the UK and USA and exhibited in France, Ireland and the UK. She has won prizes for her poetry, book jacket designs and translations. Inspired by a long poem that explores issues of identity and belonging, and commissioned by dancer/choreographer Roubina Khodadin; her exhibition ‘Walking Backwards through Fire’ will be on show in the Limelight Gallery at Lewisham Library from 6 January to 2 February. As well as this poem, she will read from her new poetry collection Lines in the Sand.
More about Ann-Marie on her website.
Writing on and off, and photographing at about the same rate, Pia Randall-Goddard writes short stories about the daily adventure, poems about life's small obsessions, poems for children, and trans-atlantic faxes to her Mexican mother-in-law about all things family. She writes for SE22 magazine as art critic and travel writer. Her photographic work, mainly black and white, spans over twenty years of working for magazines and exhibiting. In 2006 she organised and exhibited work - drag kings and queens - in the Buffalo Photography Exhibition in East Dulwich. Her current project, the microarchitecture of musical instruments, is on display at the Brentford Musical Museum.
Pia will decide on the night what she will perform, but we can expect crafted words.
Lewisham library is at 199-201 Lewisham High St, SE13 6LG and the event finishes at 9.30pm.
More information on Lewisham library.