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There are three committees each tasked with different aspects of the event.  Music and Poetry will be presenting their work in the first week of October to other artists.   This work is then passed on to the Command who needs to disseminate the instructions and ensure compliance from all the units on the stations.

Cabinet Committee



Charged with overseeing the safe delivery of the event, the Cabinet is made up of a various mixture of people of all ages with different backgrounds, experience and approach.  Two thirds of the Cabinet are NOT artists.



John McKiernan (Creator: no man's land)

Lauren Lapidge

Darren Sperring

Karl Richter

Pat Codd

Melanie Simpson

John Huntington

Rachel Lehrman



Click Here to read minutes of Cabinet meeting 25th September 2012

Next Meeting 10/10/12





Music Committee



Charged with creating a music score , a series of notations or other form of direction for musicians to perform on the morning of the event.  



Julian Jacobson​​​​

Composer, Performance Pianist and Professor at Royal College of Music

Nathaniel Robin Mann​​

Composer, one third of the Dead Rat Orchestra, Artist in Residence at PittRivers Museum, Oxford

Nathan Harmer​​

Composer, Sound and Performance Artist





Click Here to read minutes of first Music Committee meeting 14th August 2012

Next Meeting 14/10/12





 

Poetry Committee



Charged with creating a poem, a text or a piece of literature for performance poets to interpret or perform on the morning on the event.



Nancy G. Esposito​​

Is a North American poet who won the Discovery/The Nation Award. Her 4th book of poems, Lamentation with June Bug,  will be forthcoming  in 2013

Ronnie McGrath 

Visiting Lecture UCL, surrealist poet awarded first place for writing by ACER in 1993 and 1994 

Isabel White

Published and performance poet,  founder of Alarms and Excursion Collective



Click Here to read minutes of first Poetry Committee meeting 16th August

Next Meeting 14/10/12



​​Command, lead by visual and performance artist Lenka Horakova, is tasked with guaranteeing communication and that all involved are able to navigate the layers of structure and hierarchy imposed  smoothly and ensuring a cohesive single event is delivered on the morning of the 11th November 2012

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