 Patrick Neate at BUZZ
The British Council, as part of the BUZZ series, presents 'live literature' by Patrick Neate, one of UK's finest contemporary word artists, at the courtyard, British Council, Chennai, on Wednesday, 8th December.
Patrick Neate is currently on a visit to research live literature and performance spaces in India. He is accompanied by Geraldine Collinge, who heads Apples and Snakes, an organisation that stretches the boundaries of poetry in education and performance. Geraldine and Patrick are in India this year on invitation from the British Council to explore if there is a possibility of setting up in select cities, 'Spoken Word' and performance-related programmes to animate literature, more specifically poetry.
About Patrick Neate:
Patrick Neate is a spoken word artist, author and hip hop journalist. Also a novelist and short-story writer, Patrick Neate's background as a music journalist adds credibility to his vivid portrayal of the jazz and blues scenes in his writing. He has written for all the UK broadsheet newspapers and most magazines. Last year he published a book about hip-hop music, Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet, his first work of non-fiction. As a spoken word artist, Patrick has toured and taught nationally and he is currently working on a project in verse with Channel 4. When he's not doing any of the above, he hosts and promotes Book Slam @ Cherry Jam, London's leading (indeed only) literary nightclub.
Patrick has published three novels, Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko (which won a Betty Trask Award), Twelve Bar Blues (which won the Whitbread Novel Prize) and, most recently, The London Pigeon Wars. His first film script, The Tesseract (an adaptation of the Alex Garland novel), is scheduled for release later this year. He divides his time between the UK and various parts of southern Africa.
For more on Patrick Neate log on to:
www.patrickneate.com
About Geraldine Collinge:
Geraldine Collinge heads Apples and Snakes, an organisation that stretches the boundaries of poetry in education and performance with an aim to give voice to challenging, diverse and dynamic poets and encourage the appreciation of poetry by all. A & S showcases cutting-edge performance work (one example was mixing performance poets with musicians and getting each group to try working solely in the medium if the other). Apples & Snakes also focusses on taking poetry out in to communities where it doesn't usually reach disadvantaged children, the elderly, hospitals and prisons, to encourage the story-telling confidence of these communities. You can read more about the varied work that A & S do on their website
www.applesandsnakes.org
Passes for the event are available at the British Council on a first-come-first-served basis.
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