LIVE AT THE MILL
Music & Word
An evening of Poetry and Live Jazz
Friday 30 March 2007, 8.30pm
Two accomplished young poets
Karen Goodwin (UK) and Nora Nadjarian (Cyprus)
will be reading from their work
and the gifted Takoushis - Koulouras - Koullas Trio
will play out the evening with their own flavour of jazz
This event is supported by the British Council, Cyprus
Tickets for this event are CY£4, including a drink. Tickets are available
in advance from the Weaving Mill and from the Moufflon Bookshop.
The Weaving Mill, 67-71 Lefkonos Str., Phaneromeni, Old Nicosia, Tel. 22762275
The poets
Karen Goodwin was born in Swansea in 1976. Educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, she has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her poetry has appeared in a number of magazines including Poetry Wales, Stand Magazine and The Rialto as well as in a number of anthologies including Babel (CCPA, 1999) Reactions (Pen&inc, 2000) Oxygen: New Poetry from Wales (Seren, 2000) and Seren Selections (Seren, 2006). In 2000, she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors for poets under 30.
Nora Nadjarian is a Cypriot poet and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry and her work has won prizes or been commended in various international competitions, including the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and the Féile Filíochta International Poetry Competition 2005 (Ireland). Her second poetry collection Cleft in Twain was one of the books from Cyprus recommended in an article in The Guardian on the literature of the new member states of the European Union (1st May 2004). Her first collection of short stories, "Ledra Street", was published in 2006.
The musicians
Marios Takoushis (piano) was born in Cyprus in 1980 and now lives and works in Lyon, France. Having completed his studies at the Berklee Conservatory in Boston, USA he is now studying film scoring at the Lyon Conservatoire. As a Jazz pianist he has performed in Cyprus, Greece, USA, Australia, France and England and as a composer he has written music for film, theatre and contemporary dance. In a recent project he was responsible for orchestrating George Hadjipieris’ Children’s Album, O Tembelis Drakos (The Lazy Dragon) which led him to cooperate with several celebrated Greek singers. He is currently a member of the Miraculous Mandarin Jazz Trio and also leads his own trio with whom he is active all over Europe.
Ireneos Koulouras (bass) studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston alongside Ron Carter and Charlie Banacos and regularly played in New York, Boston and other cities in America with various jazz and ethnic music groups. Since 2001 he has been working with a number of Greek and international composers, singers and musicians including Christos Leontis, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Arturo Sandoval and Avishay Cohen. Apart from teaching and playing regularly in Cyprus and abroad, he recently collaborated with Ellie Paspala and David Lynch on a musical programme based on the work of the great Manos Hadjidakis.
George Koullas’ (drums) musical studies have taken him from Bonn to Boston to Rotterdam and he has learned from figures including Alan Dowson, Jon Hazila, Skip Hadden and Dave Dicenso. He is an accomplished drummer and teacher who has played and recorded with Cypriot and international artists including: George Dalaras, the Cyprus State Orchestra, and Faidros Kavallaris. In 2003 he formed the Ireneos Trio and the Havana Session band, with whom he performs regularly in Cyprus and abroad, together with other musicians including Ofer Ganor, Andreas Georgiu, Evagoras Karageorgis, Jens Kerkhoff, Eric Durrer, Lukas van Merwijk, Gilad Atzmon. George is also co-organiser of the annual Pomos Jazz Festival on the west coast of Cyprus.
INVITATION
EVE OF THE EQUINOX
The Dean of the School of Humanities of the University of Cyprus,
with the Embassies of Sweden and the United States
invite you to an evening of
intercultural dialogue through poetry and music
on Tuesday, 20th of March 2007, 7.30pm
at the Weaving Mill
Poetry
Peter Curman (Sweden)
Marc Matthews (Guyana)
Tracy K. Smith (USA)
Music
Symis Shukuroglou (clarinet and flute)
Alkis Agathokleous (guitar and sarod)
Yiannos Kyriakides (percussion)
Drinks and food will be offered
Weaving Mill: 67-71 Lefkonos Str., Phaneromeni, Old Nicosia, Tel: 22762275