Sep 19 2011

Memorable Moments

poetry and jazz autumn 2011

27 September, 4 & 11 October 2011
7 p.m. @ Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki

PROGRAMME

A ThousandMarietta Chela
Kubla KhanSamuel Taylor Coleridge

   perf. by Jessica Calonius
Suicide at the New MallZoë Chandler
The Man Who Saw
   (for Jack & Darwin)John Leo
The TruthTiina Isoviita
False ProtectionTeea Aarnio
The Day of JudgementJonathan Swift

   perf. by Tuuli Tahko
Drowning in my DreamsTiina Isoviita
Single BrideZoë Chandler
Again and AgainRainer Maria Rilke

   perf. by Marietta Chela
The RavenEdgar Allan Poe

   perf. by Johan Bolin
A RockTeea Aarnio
Some significant and defining
   moments in my lifeLauri Kivi-Koskinen
My BirthdayGeorge Crabbe

   perf. by Tuuli Tahko
Family ReunionMarietta Chela
Happy 30thTiina Isoviita
Meta-haikuZoë Chandler
The Every DaysBeth Morton

   perf. by Maria Kuuskoski
FreefallTeea Aarnio
Ten Easy PiecesJohn Leo
HopeEdith Södergran

   perf. by Marietta Chela
JabberwockyLewis Carroll

   perf. by Johan Bolin
Thirteen Ways of Saying 'I Love You’Zoë Chandler

Direction Zoë Chandler
Music Teea Aarnio piano & vocals


Mar 6 2011

Nostalgia & Now

poetry and jazz spring 2011

15, 22 & 29 March 2011
7 p.m. @ Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki

PROGRAMME

A BirthdayChristina Rossetti

   perf. by Marietta Chela
Craving For SpringD. H. Lawrence

   perf. by Jessica Calonius
Segâh TaksimJohn Millar
A GuesthouseJalal Ad-din Rumi

   perf. by Marietta Chela
That NightTiina Isoviita
The Milk Tastes FunnyZoë Chandler
The Fraud of MenWilliam Shakespeare

   perf. by Marietta Chela
My Favourite TattooTiina Isoviita
Madam Luminita's 21st Century Tarot #1Zoë Chandler
Legacy of the Snow Country:
   Ryōkan's RefrainJohn Leo
This is not a Shakuhachi, but...John Millar
The Birth of OperaGerald Steinmetz
I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Flylyrics John Dryden

music Henry Purcell

   perf. by Gerald Steinmetz
The Opening ShoresJohn Leo
Madam Luminita's 21st Century Tarot #2Zoë Chandler
Down By the Salley GardensW.B. Yeats

   perf. by Marietta Chela
In the Present TenseTiina Isoviita
Unlocking the presentJohn Millar
Sweet Endings Come and Go, LoveGeorge Eliot

   perf. by Marietta Chela
Mau, the Master NavigatorJohn Leo
Happy Birthday Dear FacebookLauri Kivi-Koskinen
When I Am Dead, My DearestChristina Rossetti

   perf. by Marietta Chela
Madam Luminita's 21st Century Tarot #3Zoë Chandler

Direction Zoë Chandler
Music John Millar on clarinet


Jan 17 2011

see me on stage in 2011

29 Jan 2011@ 19:00The Open CircuitFINNBRIT, Helsinki
18 Feb 2011@ 19:00Old TimesFINNBRIT, Helsinki
15 Mar 2011@ 19:00Poetry & JazzArkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki
22 Mar 2011@ 19:00Poetry & JazzArkadia International Bookshop , Helsinki
25 Mar 2011@ 19:00The Birthday PartyFINNBRIT, Helsinki
28 Mar 2011@ 19:00Poetry & JazzArkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki
18 May 2011@ 19:00PinteresqueLuckan, Helsinki
19 May 2011@ 19:00PinteresqueLuckan, Helsinki
20 May 2011@ 19:00PinteresqueLuckan, Helsinki
21 May 2011@ 14:00PinteresqueLuckan, Helsinki
21 May 2011@ 19:00PinteresqueLuckan, Helsinki
27 Sept 2011@ 19:00Poetry & JazzArkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki
4 Oct 2011@ 19:00Poetry & JazzArkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki
11 Oct 2011@ 19:00Poetry & JazzArkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki
10 Nov 2011@ 19:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
11 Nov 2011@ 19:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
12 Nov 2011@ 14:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
12 Nov 2011@ 19:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
13 Nov 2011@ 14:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
13 Nov 2011@ 19:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
14 Nov 2011@ 19:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki
16 Nov 2011@ 19:00Bouncers & ShakersLuckan, Helsinki

More coming soon…


Aug 26 2010

Miscoloured

poetry and jazz autumn 2010 poetry and jazz autumn 2010

14, 21 & 28 September 2010
7 p.m. @ Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki

PROGRAMME

March SnowJohn Leo
Rubik's HeartZoë Chandler
Reality Is Just a Distant DreamTiina Isoviita
Ryōkan's ReturnJohn Leo
Madam Luminita's 21st Century Tarot #1Zoë Chandler
The Never-Ending Battle Between
   Darkness and LightLauri Kivi-Koskinen
Extraordinary Voyage – Bright blue sky Saara Markkanen
WhiteTiina Isoviita
This Is My Jesus YearZoë Chandler
The Winged MigrationsJohn Leo
Extraordinary Voyage – Half way thereSaara Markkanen
The NightingaleJohn Leo
The Main Street of This Torture CityTiina Isoviita
Madam Luminita's 21st Century Tarot #2Zoë Chandler
Memories of a Distant Winter WonderlandTiina Isoviita
HopeLauri Kivi-Koskinen
Extraordinary Voyage – Waiting at the harbourSaara Markkanen
Let Autumn Now ComeJohn Leo
RedTiina Isoviita
Madam Luminita's 21st Century Tarot #3Zoë Chandler

Direction Zoë Chandler
Music Saara Markkanen on reeds and guitar


Feb 5 2010

Songs of Fire & Ice

poetry and jazz spring 2010

23 February; 2 & 9 March 2010
7 p.m. @ Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki

PROGRAMME


Our Song

All Growed Up

Winter Light

Spring at Western Water

Frozen in Time

Drastic Performance

Madam Luminita’s
   21st Century Tarot

Seeing You
 

Wordless Poem

The Route to the Future
   Lies in the Past

Within a Hair’s Breadth 
   of You

Ice Nerve

Ramblings of a
   Mind Gone Mad

The Table

The Six Strings
  

In an Absent State of Mind

On the Phone

Madam Luminita’s
   21st Century Tarot

Another Darwinian Dawn

Cyrano’s Final Speech
  

Oh Good, Whatever is Rock
 

Plosions

The 3,000 Years
   Spent With You

Upside Down

A Short Poem of a Long Life

Happiness is Out of Fashion
 

Madam Luminita’s
   21st Century Tarot

Autumn

Verlaine
 

The Moon Appears
 

The Birds and the Bees

Even Red Roses
   Have Gone Metric


Zoë Chandler

Zoë Chandler

John Leo

John Leo

Tiina Isoviita

Tiina Isoviita

 
Zoë Chandler

Vello Ruus
   perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Vello Ruus

Bruce Marsland
   perf. by Fabien Rapin

Bruce Marsland
   perf. by Fabien Rapin

John Millar

  
Mikael Kivimäki

Marietta Chela

F. Garcia Lorca
   perf. by Marietta Chela

Tiina Isoviita

Tiina Isoviita

 
Zoë Chandler

John Leo

Edmond Rostand
   perf. by Fabien Rapin

Vello Ruus
   perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

John Millar

 
Tiina Isoviita

Mikael Kivimäki

Mikael Kivimäki

Bruce Marsland
   perf. by Fabien Rapin

 
Zoë Chandler

John Leo

F. Garcia Lorca
   perf. by Marietta Chela

F. Garcia Lorca
   perf. by Marietta Chela

Vello Ruus

 
Zoë Chandler


Direction Zoë Chandler
Music John Millar on clarinet


Sep 10 2009

Lives & Deaths

poetry and jazz autumn 2009

10, 17 & 24 September 2009
7 p.m. @ Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki

 

PROGRAMME


Vital Statistics
 

Justin Pinkletink
  & Sir Anthony Aspland

Teenager at Thirty
 

Scenes of Autumn
 

Late Summer Leaves

September Woods

The Smile

Things We Lost In The Sea

Meredith Willowes
  & Nicholas Mortlock

Clutching

A Falling Away

A Farm Girl’s Lament

The Flight of the Osprey

Snowdrops

To My Wife
 

Moss

Gliding in Gravity

Abigail Merriweather
  & Eddie Goldstone

Seaside Holiday

 
Nocturne
 

I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown
 

A Light Rain Is Forecast

Raleigh’s Recount

30,000 Lives and Deaths

Erratum: Dr Penelope Gray
   & RIP Honour

Between the Squares
 


Zoë Chandler
     perf. by Zoë Chandler & Marietta Chela

 
Zoë Chandler

Bruce Marsland
     perf. by Diana Hannikainen

John Leo
     perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

John Leo

John Leo

Marietta Chela

Marietta Chela

 
Zoë Chandler

John Millar

Suzanne Niilo-Rämä

Suzanne Niilo-Rämä

John Leo

John Leo

Oscar Wilde
     perf. by Lauri Kivi-Koskinen

Joel Holmberg

Joel Holmberg

 
Zoë Chandler

Bruce Marsland
     perf. by Diana Hannikainen

Delmira Agustini
     perf. by Marietta Chela

Louise Labé
     perf. by Marietta Chela

Zoë Chandler

John Leo

Joel Holmberg

 
Zoë Chandler

Zoë Chandler
     perf. by Zoë Chandler & Marietta Chela


Direction  Joel Holmberg
Music  John Millar on clarinet


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