Chris Joseph

Culture East Midlands, the Regional Cultural Consortia for the East Midlands has recently launched a new website supporting rural arts and culture in the East Midlands.

The website http://www.ruralculture-em.org is now live to the public.

The site is there to support the work of people developing cultural activity in rural areas and showcase projects from across the region. The site provides clear information on training and funding opportunities, news and events and signposts organisations that support cultural activity. Detailed case studies from some successful and pioneering projects across the East Midlands are available to download to inform and hopefully inspire more cultural projects in rural areas.

We are still in the process of developing the site’s content so any thoughts you might have when you visit, you can send to us via the contact form on the site, or email to mailto:news@ruralculture-em.org

Isolation is a common aspect of rural life and this site aims to overcome some of those communication barriers by providing an
appropriate and accessible service to those working in culture in the rural East Midlands.

Culture in Rural Development Programme, Culture East Midlands, EMDA

Culture East Midlands, located with EMDA at Apex Court, City Link, Nottingham, NG2 4LA

These events will be well worth attending if you can get to them. Gavin and Mark collaborated in 2005 on a great electronic poetry piece - ‘Slippage‘ - which was commissioned as part of the ‘Moving’ project by Leicester City Libraries & Phoenix Arts.

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FREE Lunch Time Poetry at Leighton-Linslade Arts Festival May 2007

May 8 2007: Buzz Words (Gavin Stewart)

A rare live-performance from prize-winning poet Gavin Stewart. Fellow poet Neil Fulwood praised his work observing:-

“I found in Gavin Stewart’s poetry humanity, insight, experience, a wealth of subtle phraseology, a sense of nostalgia unsullied by sentimentality, and an almost heartbreaking use of understatement.”

Enjoy work from his previous collections Biology Lessons (1999) and Sounding Out (2001), and new material from his forthcoming collection, Ripening.

May 15 2007: Voltage (Mark Goodwin)

Climber and award winning poet Mark Goodwin invites you on an exploration of high voltage verbs and linguistic innovation. His poetry ranges from direct and accessible to ambiguous and playful. The focus today is: being in as well as being alive landscape.

Mark was BBC Wildlife Poet of The Year 2003, and has published over 170 poems in magazines and ezines. He often collaborates with other artists and writers.

Where and When

Both events are in the Leighton Buzzard Theatre Lounge 12.30 to 1.30PM.

Free Tickets

In advance from the Theatre Box Office, Lake Street tel. 01582 818801, or at the door.