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- What I do:
- Teacher
- A little more about me:
- I'm an ESOL tutor who writes plays and poetry (three to date and hundreds, respectively.......most unseen/unread, all unpublished/unperformed). I have a past as a music promoter (Damien Rice, Mary Gauthier, Tift Merritt, The Handsome Family, Of Montreal. Tom Baxter, Herman Dune, and many, many more), including gigs at Chapter, and as the producer of three plays performed in The Arts Wing, Swansea Grand - Dan O'Brien's The Body of an American, George Brant's Grounded and Dalton Trumbo's Johnny's Got HIs Gun. Currently, I am promoting again and have recently put on a gig for Nashville based songwriter Rachel Baiman. Upcoming events include Penelope Isles, Omar Apollo and Ferris & Sylvester.
I'm in the exploratory stages of plotting out a cultural exchange - ostensibly theatre, but likely to include art, music and words - with a Native American playwright called Joy Harjo.
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- I'm in the exploratory stages of plotting out a cultural exchange - ostensibly theatre, but likely to include art, music and words - with a Native American playwright called Joy Harjo. Please see brief biog below.
I'm reaching out to test drive the response to putting a programme of events together to visit the US for a series of performances and to host our Native American counterparts in Wales. First and foremost, the project needs a steering committee, and I'm on the lookout for those with the knowledge, know-how and experience to create one.
Essential to the idea's success will be to tender for original works - plays, in this instance - which will be written by Wales based writers. Such a focus should be of considerable help in securing funding - Wales Arts International and British Council - as would the involvement of the likes of Chapter, Dirty Protest, TOR and Volcano, all of whom have been approached.
Most Native American writing is political, and much of it concerns identity, gender and the protection of Mother Earth. For this reason, new works will be sought on the themes of gender, "Welsh" identity and the environment. It is understood that Welsh language writing will be integral to the ambitions of the project.
Joy Harjo biog:
Joy Harjo’s eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry; a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship. In 2014 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning CDs of music including the award-winning album Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009. Her one-woman show is now released in book form from Wesleyan University Press: Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, a play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses. Forthcoming is An American Sunrise, a book of poetry from Norton, An American Sunrise. She is working on a musical that will revise the origin story of blues and jazz to include southeastern Native music, We Were There When Jazz Was Invented. Harjo is the recipient of a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation.
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