Michael Start
a Missfit Monday favourite performance poet returns

Shoes & Play Ball
short films by Vivien Peach

Aime Hansen
performance poetry

Paul Eccentric
sorry people – a privileged insight

Annouchka Bayley
cutting edge feeding frenzy of performance art

All this for only £6/£5

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A Taste of
What’s On When
in April 2009

Pavel Janik – animated poetry performed by Leon Conrad

Jennifer Byrne – cabaret with bite

Stephen Hunt – Milton’s Jacket a play which will trap the unwary

27 April

Steve Tasane – polyvocal poetry

Stephen Hunt – Milton’s Jacket
a play which will trap the unwary

20 April

Vivien Peach – Fight with Raymond the Evil Coathanger (Film)

Paul Eccentric Performance poetry with a bite

Sam Berkson – Life in Travel

Monooka – haunting Romanian folksong

13 April

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A special thank you to Amy Schulz (website); and Nye Williams (projector loan)
and the teams at Dalston 4 London,
Hackney Co-Operative Developments (HCD) Limited and The Barley Mow (rehearsal space).
Your help makes these production possible!

Missfit Monday http://missfitmondays.blogspot.com/
Blog Pages: http://missfitmonday.wordpress.com/

Who’s Who
This Missfit Monday

I was born as a creative person and I cannot live without creative arts. Life without creativity is meaningless. I am a theatrical performance poet (I perform my own poetry) and theatre practitioner. I incorporate storytelling, acting, dance, physical theatre to my poetry performances, it’s a kind of “poetry theatre”.

Find out more at www.geocities.com/aimehansen2002

Aime Hansen (storytelling/performance poetry)

I write (animate) because everything I see, I instantly visualize moving. Nothing ever stays still. My films generally have rather dark themes, but play on the childlike elements they bring.

Find out more at www.joesart.org/vivien

Vivien Peach (film/moving image)

A performance poet. No more, no less.

Michael Start (performance poetry)

I am a philosophy student in London and a new writer, only writing poetry since January of this year. My work is an exploration of human angst centered in the harsh reality of life.

Pennie Varvarides (performance poetry)

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Who’s Who
This Missfit Monday
(Continued)

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I’m an independent anarchist playwright poet, author, songwriter and a rather intimidating performer, that’s me!

I write because if I didn’t then my head would probably explode, incapable, as it is, of bearing such a burdensome load.

This evening’s performance features extracts from my play, ‘The Sorry People’; a series of monologues, which we are currently touring prior to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

Find out more at www.sorrypeople.co.uk
Or on www.theantipoet.co.uk

Paul Eccentric

Annoushka Bayley

(performance artist/poet]

My life is about searching for beauty and sincerity of expression in art, word, and action with joy …

4 plays, 8 performance art pieces, a trip to Mongolia following a map drawn on a paper napkin to ‘find’ that sound, a sojourn with a traveling circus, turning down a place at RADA (sorry mother!), screaming ‘Bacchae’, the soft side of ‘Medea’…

I write because I have to write. The moment when a faithful expression makes an audience member shiver almost imperceptibly in some kind of recognition of something that’s relevant to them, is probably the beginning of why.

Find out more at www.shamelesstheatre.co.uk

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Touchwaves and missfit productions are co-producing missfit mondays, every Monday at the Troy Bar in Hoxton Street from March – May 09.  This is a fundraiser for a new charity called DYS(THE)LEXI that will celebrate, develop and produce the work of dyslexic and dyspraxic writers.

We are looking for artists that are keen to experiment with both form and content, artists that are not afraid of their audience, and artists that have got something evocative to say.  We are looking for:

PERFORMANCE POETS

Performance poets will be offered a performance slot of 10-20min depending on material and delivery.

STORYTELLERS

Storytellers will be given a time slot of 15-30min depending on material and delivery.

PLAYWRIGHTS

Playwrights will be offered either a reading of their work, or a staged production, depending of the material. Performance nights available are from 1-4 consecutive Monday nights.  The producers will provide both the actors and the director, unless the writer has an existing team they wish to work with. The producers will provide a limited amount of weekly rehearsal space.

MOVING IMAGE

Film makers will be offered a weekly screening of their shorts or experimental moving image work.  The time slots available are 60sec – 15min max. Please email links to your work, or send in a copy of your DVD. (Contact producers for postal address).

Submission Deadlines March 20:

We ask all enquires be sent to missfitmonday@gmail.com and that your submissions is made via our short application processes.  More information can be found at www.missfitproductions.org

Thank You

Leon Conrad (Touchwaves)

Lennie Varvarides (missfit productions)

Missfit Mondays is a four-month long mini festival celebrating innoventive writing in theatre, poetry, storytelling and the moving image/film. It is set up as a festival fundraiser for DYS(THE)LEXI 2009, a festival celebrating the work of dyslexic writers.

Missfit Mondays is conceived as an experience space in which new audiences bring forth new writing and vice versa. We welcome new ideas and want to work with people who want to dissolve boundaries and are particularly keen to work with artists whose work does not fit easily into conventional ‘boxes’. We are particularly keen to celebrate dyslexic and dyspraxic artists’ work, but our remit is wide and we welcome submissions from all.

Missfit Mondays will take place on consecutive Mondays at The Troy Bar, Hoxton Street, London

Missfit Mondays is conceived as an experience space in which new audiences bring forth new writing and vice versa. We welcome new ideas and want to work with people who want to dissolve boundaries and are particularly keen to work with artists whose work does not fit easily into conventional ‘boxes’. We are particularly keen to celebrate dyslexic and dyspraxic artists’ work, but our remit is wide and we welcome submissions from all.

Missfit Mondays will take place on consecutive Mondays at The Troy Bar, Hoxton Street, London

We’re looking for tellers, poets, visual makers, playwrights. players, improvisers, directors, dreamers, idealists, rebels, and our favourite of all, missfits.
If you have a story or an idea for a story and you are looking to test it out or show it off, please get in contact asap. 
There are three submission deadlines for the 2009 season which runs from February to May – Friday 30th Jan 09; Friday 27th Feb 09 and Friday 10th April 09. Email missfitmonday@gmail.com for an application form and get your entries in. The earlier we receive your application, the greater your chance of being able to participate.
We are offering playwrights who submit the most developed work a maximum run of 4 performances and, where necessary, happy to support the writer with casting, as well as sourcing a Director.
 
There is no funding for this project, but it is an opportunity to participate in a high quality event to which you can invite industry professionals/agents. 
 
We look forward to hearing from you. 
 
misfit productions
Touchwaves
missfitmonday@gmail.com