Walton opened the evening with his poem
'Occasion', exploring the tender moment of picking a ripe raspberry.
He also created special images from other everyday moments in other
pieces – a coastal walk, a phonecall with his father about the
football – but he also performed work concerned with the exotic and
the imagined, describing war in the East and jazz musician Don
Cherry's visit to Marrakesh.
Musician Pete Judge performed a few
pieces solo on the trumpet including the famous 'Bye Bye Blackbird',
but also displayed his talents on a rotary valve tenor horn, playing
on it a medley of pieces from around the world.
Naomi Alderson, runner up of the John
Tripp Award 2011, performed two poems from what she jokingly dubbed
her 'Adele' set, about the aftermath of a break-up. Another poem,
'Engaged', played wittily off the dichotomy of engaged and vacant and
her last piece (originally written for Pecha Kucha) dealt powerfully
with a reaction to the Tsunami, linking and reworking images from the
event to the speakers own life.
Geraint Rhys played an enjoyable set
on guitar, singing in both Welsh and English and accompanied by
percussionist Steve Eyers and Llyr Lewis, twice winner of the Urdd
Bardic Chair also performed (although I have no idea what he was
saying as the majority of his poetry is in Welsh).
Naomi Alderson performing with the slides at PechaKucha Night at the Chapter Arts House, 24th January 2012
Geraint Rhys with his original song 'Take Your Time'
Another thing I went to lately was Art Club and Curry at Milgi (www.milgilounge.com). Every month on a Monday night they lay out craft supplies and prepare a tasty meal all for the small price of £5. This month we wove yarn around crossed sticks to make God's Eyes, a Mexican spiritual object. All the fun of primary school art class but with cocktails!
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