The Ghost Jam developed as an idea from an earlier collaborative performance called Beyond Orpheus, featuring Lyndon Davies, Scott Thurston, Penny Hallas, Rhys Trimble, Anthony Mellors and Steve Boyland. This, an amalgam of poetry, film, movement, music and voice improvisation took place in the dark attic space of Undegun in Wrexham. The space was sparsely lit and the audience moved through it from one performer to another. The position of each performer and the order of the performances were...
Readings
The third Ghost Jam took place at Dempsey's Bar in Cardiff on November 13th 2016.The contributors were Steve Hitchins, Lyndon Davies, Rhys Trimble, Nia Davies, Penny Hallas, Anthony Mellors, Tilla Brading, Chris Paul and assorted members of the audience. There were also three individual readings, by Phil Maillard, Julia Lewis and Josh Robinson. The sound track is by Steven Hitchins, visuals by Lyndon Davies.
The first Ghost Jam experiment - October 2015 - brought together a group of artists, writers and performers, most of whom knew at least some of the others. The venue was the scout-hut in Crickhowell, a small town in Powys. There was a small audience. The group comprised a visual artist, Penny Hallas, who had made two films for the occasion, eight poets/writers and a movement artist called Emma Lewis-Jones, from Nottingham, whose role was to respond in any way she saw fit to what was happening....
On Sunday 4th October, 7.30 - 9.00 pm, as part of the Crickhowell Literary Festival, Aquifer Books (based just across the river in Llangattock) presents readings by six of its published authors: Graham Hartill, Chris Torrance, Phil Maillard, Rhyst Trimble, Steven Hitchins and Lyndon Davies, with a special guest appearance by Nia Davies, editor of Poetry Wales.
AQUIFER BOOKS announces the launch of SLIPPING THE LEASH Chris Torrance Phil Maillard Graham Hartill THE HEN AND CHICKENS PUB, ABERGAVENNY SATURDAY, JULY 11th 2.00 pm Entry: Free
THE OTHER ROOM presents JOHN GOODBY GRAHAM HARTILL LYNDON DAVIES NIA DAVIES CHRIS PAUL RHYS TRIMBLE Wednesday 8th July 2015, 7pm The Castle Hotel pub, Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE Free admission and book stall John Goodby was born in Birmingham, universitied in Yorkshire, taught in Ireland, living since 1994 in Wales. He lectures at Swansea University and is editor of the new Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas; has been co-editor of Irish and Welsh issues of Angel Exhaust, and published,...
BEYOND ORPHEUS: an afternoon of poetry, film, movement and voice and instrumental improvisation. Six poets perform in an environment centred around Penny Hallas' film triptych, as the closing event for the The Tales We Tell exhibition at Un Deg Un in Wrexham. With Penny Hallas are Allen Fisher, Scott Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Steve Boyland, Rhys Trimble, Lyndon Davies and as yet unknown collaborators. Saturday February 28th, 2 - 5 pm. Penny Hallas says: The body of work on level 1 and level...
October 5th, The Old Library, Cardiff, 6.30pm (with John Goodby and exhibition by Penny Hallas) October 6th, St John's Church, Abbey Road, Llangollen, 6.30 pm (with John Goodby and Childe Rolande) October 19th, Hen and Chickens Pub, Abergavenny, 7.30 pm (with Samantha Wynne Rhydderch) October 27th, Bangor, Palas Print (with John Goodby) October 28th, University Bookshop, Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, 6.30 pm (with John Goodby)
