Mar 11 2009

The Four Elements

poetry and jazz spring 2009

11, 18 & 25 March 2009
7 p.m. @ Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki

 

PROGRAMME


Let It Be Forgotten
 

It Is Not a Word
 

Winter Guest

Twilight

Encounter; City Soup; Black Strand;
   Dark Senses

Breaking Wave

That Palaeozoic Trilobite Groove

When You Are Old
 

Gentle Earthy Prick

This Compost
 

This Moment

Midsummer Aurora
 

Fishmonger

The Auto-obituary of an Evil Genius

Midwinter Spring

The Amerindian Drum

Hot Sauces

The Forest; The Strand; Flea Circus;
   The Vanishing

Air Off

I Saw In Louisiana
   a Live-Oak Growing

Everyham

The Hyperborean Bird

She

Passage


Sara Teasdale
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

Sara Teasdale
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

John Leo

Marietta Chela

 
Joel Holmberg

John Leo

Bruce Marsland

W.B.Yeats
     perf. by Marietta Chela

John Millar

Walt Whitman
      perf. by Diana Hannikainen

Zoë Chandler

John Leo
     perf. by Lauri-Kivi-Koskinen

Bruce Marsland

Zoë Chandler

John Leo

John Leo

Marietta Chela

 
Joel Holmberg

John Millar

Walt Whitman
     perf. by Diana Hannikainen

Bruce Marsland

John Leo

Marietta Chela

Joel Holmberg


Direction  Joel Holmberg
Music  John Millar on clarinet


Oct 8 2008

City Hearts

poetry and jazz autumn 2008

8, 15 & 22 October 2008
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki
 

PROGRAMME


I Am Not Yours
 

Metro Night

The Cursive Past

Call

Desert Voices

My City
 

Alias

New Bearing

In Black and White

Cityscapes #1

Will power

Credences of Autumn
 

Hormonal Implosion

Not a Tree (Nor a Poem)

Not William
 

Spring Tide

They’re Just Tiny Bottles
   (They’re Just Tiny Soldiers)

Echoes of the Cityside

PoetryFactory Pro

Cityscapes #2

I’ll Remember

Winter Meditation

The Barrier


Sara Teasdale
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

John Leo

Adrian Goldman

Adrian Goldman

John Leo

Carina Chela
     perf. by Marietta Chela

Bruce Marsland

Bruce Marsland

Adrian Goldman

Johanna Pitkänen

Fionna O’Sullivan

John Leo
     perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Marietta Chela

Fionna O’Sullivan

Zoë Chandler
     perf. by Zoë Chandler & Matti Keltanen

John Leo

Carina Chela
     perf. by Marietta Chela

Zoë Chandler

Bruce Marsland

Johanna Pitkänen

Marietta Chela

John Leo

Joel Holmberg


Direction  Joel Holmberg
Music  Johanna Pitkänen on piano


Mar 19 2008

Nature

poetry and jazz spring 2008

19 & 26 March; 2 April 2008
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki

 
PROGRAMME


When in Ghana

On the Beach at Night
 

from Mikrokosmos
 

The White House

The Venerable Mark

Jurassic Car Park

Lessons From the Hill: The Wasps
 

Lessons From the Hill: The Vole
 

The Landscape Player
 

Serafina

Kuppi
 

from Mikrokosmos
 

Lessons From the Hill: The Ants
 

Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover


Zoë Chandler

Walt Whitman
     perf. by Perttu Lipsanen

Béla Bartók
     perf. by Johanna Pitkänen

Marja Hakola

Zoë Chandler

Zoë Chandler

Bartholomew John
     perf. by Perttu Lipsanen

Bartholomew John
     perf. by Perttu Lipsanen

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

Joel Holmberg

Alice Martineau
     perf. by Marja Hakola

Béla Bartók
     perf. by Johanna Pitkänen

Bartholomew John
     perf. by Perttu Lipsanen

Zoë Chandler


Direction  Joel Holmberg
Music  Johanna Pitkänen on piano


Oct 3 2007

Food & Drink

poetry and jazz autumn 2007

3, 10 & 17 October 2007
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki

 

PROGRAMME


The Regime

I Live on Little

The Ballad of Boullabaisse
 

Midsummer Ceremony
 

At Katajanokka

Turkey Wrangling

Macbeth, Act IV, Sc. 1
 

The Old Drunkard

So I’ve Tried To Go

The Eleventh Summer

The Fly
 

Alfantino to Gamberi


Zoë Chandler

John Leo

William Makepeace Thackeray
     perf. by Joan & Henrik Nordlund

John Leo
     perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

John Leo

Zoë Chandler

William Shakespeare
     perf. by Joan & Henrik Nordlund

John Leo

John Leo

Zoë Chandler

William Oldys
     perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Joel Holmberg


Direction Joel Holmberg
Music John Millar on clarinet


Mar 14 2007

Dreams & Travel

poetry and jazz spring 2007

14, 21 & 28 March 2007
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki
 

PROGRAMME


Cadenza
     from the Clarinet Concerto

Travel Broadens the Mind

Good Morning America #1 & #2

The Airport People #1
 

Let Dreams Be Toys

R-G-B
 

Kamppi

Sunitra
 

Staves of Shadow

Agent Provocateur

The Airport People #2
 

Fly Me to the Moon
 

The Airport People #3
 

The Fall to Earth

Three Friends
 
 

Good Morning America #3

And My Foot Walked Off
     Without Me

Waiting For Morning

Meeting Mama Lou


Aaron Copland
     perf. by John Millar

Zoë Chandler

Marja Hakola

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Zoë Chandler

Bartholomew John
     perf. by Perttu Lipsanen

Bruce Marsland

Joe White
     perf. by Joe White & Marja Hakola

Zoë Chandler

Bruce Marsland

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Bart Howard
     perf. by John Millar

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Bruce Marsland

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Zoë Chandler,
     Matti Keltanen & Bruce Marsland

Marja Hakola

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Matti Keltanen

Zoë Chandler

Joel Holmberg


Direction Joel Holmberg
Music John Millar on clarinet


Sep 13 2006

Letters Home

poetry and jazz autumn 2006

13, 22 & 27 September 2006
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki
 

PROGRAMME


You Got the Silver
 

The TALL STORY *
 

Heartsweet
 

Small Things
 

Drowning Act
 

Murr’s Willed Organs
 

Random Acts of Postage

October Song
 

Absolutely the Last Monster
   To Be Boiled in a Pot
      At My House

After the Fact
 

This Moment
 

Autumn Ennui
 

Gaijin Arcana
 

Some Seem To Do It
   So Naturally

Dear Clarissa
 

Hubble Bubble
   Toil and Trouble

Air
 

The Baddest Cat Alive

The Knight of Whatever
 

Drama Mistress

Gaijin Arcana
 

Truck Driving Woman

 
* excerpts from Taller Stories


Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
     perf. by Joe White

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

Karolina Sveiby
     perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Zoë Chandler

The Incredible String Band
     perf. by Joe White
 

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

Joel Holmberg
     perf. by Matti Keltanen & Anna Rawlings

The Incredible String Band
     perf. by Joe White

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Zoë Chandler

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen & Anna Rawlings
 

Joe White

Joel Holmberg
     perf. by Joel Holmberg & Anna Rawlings
 

Zoë Chandler

The Incredible String Band
     perf. by Joe White

Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Rhys Hughes
     perf. by Matti Keltanen

Zoë Chandler

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen & Anna Rawlings

Joe White


Direction   Joel Holmberg
Music  Joe White on (various) guitars & theremin


Mar 8 2006

Trauma Kit

poetry and jazz spring 2006

8, 15 & 22 March 2006
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki
 

PROGRAMME


Memory

Trauma Kit #1
 

Choosing Mr Right

The Ghost of Near Misses
 

Last Call
 

Trauma Kit #2
 

Feels Like Flying

Do you a)..?

Trauma Kit #3
 

Bekaa Valley

Champagne Rose

Café Engel, February

When

Call Michael and Tell Him
   I Shot the Dog

Vignette 1

Trauma Kit #4
 

Sammy and Queen Helen
 
 


Adrian Goldman

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Adrian Goldman

Anna Maria Rawlings
     perf. by Diana Hannikainen

Bartholomew John
     perf. by Joel Holmberg

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Zoë Chandler

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Adrian Goldman

Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Adrian Goldman

Adrian Goldman

 
Zoë Chandler

Adrian Goldman

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen

Joel Holmberg
     perf. by Joel Holmberg,
     Jonathan Hutchings & Diana Hannikainen


Direction Joel Holmberg
Music Lauri Kivi-Koskinen on piano


Jun 8 2005

Prose & Jazz

poetry and jazz summer 2005

8, 15 & 22 June 2005
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki

 

PROGRAMME

A special edition focusing on longer prose pieces, including:


The Emperors Mimpwender

The Emerald Green Gown

Sin Eater


Zoë Chandler

Joel Holmberg

Joe L. Murr
     perf. by Joel Kuntonen


Direction Joel Holmberg
Music John Millar on clarinet


Jan 26 2005

Free Entry, Free Minds

poetry and jazz spring 2005

26 January; 2 & 9 February 2005
8 p.m. @ Café Engel, Helsinki
 

PROGRAMME

     Coming soon…

Direction  Joel Holmberg
Music  Lauri Kivi-Koskinen on piano