LATEST: Anna read at the May Day celebrations in The Good Ship in Kilburn, London NW6. Also appearing were Sean Taylor and a storming Attila the Stockbroker.
ANNA WINS THE FARRAGO POETRY SLAM BEST LONDON PERFORMANCE Feb 2013
Performing as a feature poet at the Farrago Poetry Slam Zoo Awards on Friday 22nd February 2013 at the RADA Café in Malet Street, London WC1E 7H, 7pm. £6
Saturday 16th February. Reading poetry at the Islington Chinese Association Chinese New Year celebration.
Friday 15th February 2013. Anna reads poetry at the Save Friern Barnet Library occupation accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray on guitar. Now that the community has won the library back for a few years, we're back there for the cabaret on Friday.
Wednesday 13th February 2013: Anna reads poetry at the Tower Hamlets Chinese Association for their 30th anniversary and Chinese New Year celebration at the Lotus Restaurant, Millwall Dock.
Anna is a featured poet at the FARRAGO POETRY SLAM 9th November. 7.30pm RADA Café, Malet St WC1E 7H. £6 (£5 con)
Reading from Reaching for my Gnu at Café La Brioche, 238 West End Lane NW6 with Charles Shaar Murray. 7.30pm Monday 29th October. Free entry
LATEST: Performed The Steampunk Opium Wars to a packed St Ives Arts Club at the St Ives Arts Festival on Tuesday 18th September 2012. With Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith, Louise Whittle, Paul Anderson, and Bob Devereux. Followed by a Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge cabaret of poets and musicians where I read from my collection of poetry, Reaching for my Gnu.
Anna's first collection — Reaching for my Gnu — is about to be published for Kindle and in paperback by Aaaargh! Press.
Wednesday 18th July (time TBC) Anna gives a talk on Chinese representation on the UK stage at the Chinese In Britain event at the Old Cinema, Westminster University, Regent St W1.
Thursday 28th June 2012
Anna and Charles Shaar Murray perform at Sash Selavie's Gender Genocide evening at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
Also on the same bill: Jeremy Reed and The Ginger Light!; sultry Parisian Electro-chanteuse Anne Pigalle; rock star Sara Stockbridge, historical novelist, Vivienne Westwood muse and lead singer of her band Rooster with her partner, Ex Zodiac Mindwarp stalwart, Cobalt Stargazer; six-foot-six lethal showgirl, Lucy Luskini, skin safety-first burlesque alive, and stomp its' bleeding corpse; mighty Maryland diva dominatrix Gina Davis remix Stardust for the 21st Century - and beyond!
Anna MCs and reads her poetry at the London launch of Greg Palast's Vultures' Picnic
26th June 2012
7pm The Venue, ULU, Malet St
Friday 22nd June 2012
Anna is a featured poet at the Farrago Poetry Slam
7pm RADA Café
Malet Street WC1E 7H
£6 (£5 conc)
PHOTOS of Anna May Wong Must Die! at the New Diorama Theatre, 10th & 12th November 2011, here
Videos of the St Ives Arts Festival 2011 where I debuted "Kicking A Dinosaur" and "Big Society: on a conversation at the Foundling Museum".
John Paul O'Neill invited me to be a guest poet at the Farrago Summer Slam August 2010 (above). I enjoyed it enormously as the audience is always lively and welcoming. If you are a poet this is a great event to try out your material or watch the talented array of poets strutting their wondrous stuff.
I like to try out material at Bob Devereux's Literary Festivals in St Ives, Cornwall. Again, a very warm crowd. Recommended.
Elsewhere, some pix of Suzy Wrong — Human Cannon, the solo show I took to Edinburgh.
DATES
Friday 22nd June 2012
Featured poet
Farrago Poetry Slam
RADA Café
Malet Street WC1E 7H
£6 (£5 conc)
Anna Chen hosts an evening of poetry, performance and 'tongue-in-cheek Chinoiserie' in The Steampunk Opium Wars, an evening of satirical events themed around the Opium Wars -part of the 'Traders Unpacked' series of events celebrating the launch of the National Maritime Museum's 'Traders: The East India Company and Asia' gallery. 6.30-10pm Thursday 16th February 2011
Anna performs at the lunchtime Norway Square sessions at the St Ives Arts Festival 10 – 25 September 2011. Anna May Wong Must Die! as a work-in-progress at the New Diorama Theatre near Euston in London as part of the week-long In The Mirror event: Thursday 10th and Saturday 12th November 2011. Plus two more radio commissions for BBC Radio 4.
Tuesday 5th April 2011
Utter 'Pointlessness' Poetry hosted by Richard Tyrone Jones
Thursday 31st March 2011
Featured poet
Farrago Poetry Slam
RADA Café
Malet Street WC1E 7H
Ten minute feature spot for Apples & Snakes Jawdance, Shoreditch Wednesday 19th January 2011.
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FARRAGO POETRY 16th December 2010, Rada Café, Malet St. Ten-minute feature spot.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY POETRY SOCIETY (OUPS) launch performance, 28th October 2010. Mary Ogilvy Theatre, St Anne's. More here
ANNA'S POETRY PAGE here
