Openned Readings - Other

at the old place

Openned — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:22:26 +0000

After the last Openned night at the Foundry the poet Michael Zand sent this poem to us as a 'kind of thank you'. We liked it so have posted it as part of the documentation of the Openned reading series.

Art v Politics: Why the Foundry Was Doomed

Openned — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:35:41 +0000

Leo Schulz runs a blog called Hoxton Live and has written a good article about the 'regeneration' of East London and the Foundry. It mentions Openned:

Basemeta

Openned — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:05:37 +0000

In the basement of the Foundry, Old Street, London, from 18:30 to 23:30 on the 25th of March 2009, poets Becky Cremin and Ryan Ormonde documented the entire Openned poetry reading from before it started to well after it had finished. This reading was the eighteenth in the series. From this they produced a document called basemeta.

In some of the recordings of the 18th Openned night you can catch occasional glimpses of them or hear the gentle tap of typewriter keys as they produced the documentation.

basemeta was performed at the next Openned night and their performance of this document can be viewed here. However, the documentation also stands as a poem in its own right and is an excellent piece of work and is available here for free.

Published: October 2009

View free: PDF (18.4MB)

Jow Lindsay Comments On His Blog Everyone's Cup of Tea About the Land for Lajee Fundraiser

Openned — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:41:00 +0000

Openned / Land for Lajee Fundraiser. We heard around fifteen poets read in three-minute slots, all relevant & some intentionally so, & we saw a short film about the Aida camp & heard some short talks about the camp and the Lajee Centre. We were taken at our stations by the reverie wherein Steve Willey psyches himself up with Cobbing glossolalia strapping on his brown shinpads for another full day's football against the camp children. There was an auction and other stuff.

The only thing that didn't make me fucking ecstatic was the sense of a special occasion. Openned & other itinerary bezoars, like The Blue Bus, Utter!, Xing the Line, Penned in the Margins, Chlorine, and the stuff which happens in Cambridge, should regularly schedule mixtures of poetry and direct prosaic political and activist-administrative address. New nights too. If you want concrete suggestions, backchannel me.

Remembering Openned 4

Openned — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:19:00 +0000

Harry Godwin wrote the below as documentation of the Openned Night of April 2009. You can read the original at T H E D A I L Y F I L T H.