Daydreaming in the City

This micro-festival explores daydreaming and poetic states of mind, and features an eclectic programme of spoken word performance, talks, music, film and an immersive audio experience from In the Dark Radio. Presented by live poetry producer, Poet in the City in collaboration with Hubbub, a collective of social scientists, artists, researchers and mental health experts in residence at the Wellcome Trust.

Schedule for the day:

13:30 Hubbub: Restless Cities with Felicity Callard, James Wilkes and Emma Bennett
14:30 Helen Mort: Running and the City
15:00 Siddhartha Bose: The Digital City
16:00 The City Unfurled: Urban Diversions with Inua Ellams, Lauren Elkin, Jon Day and Morag Rose
18:15 Orphée + In the Dark listening event

 

 

Previously in this Festival

Orphée In The Dark Listening Event

Close your eyes and open your ears as radio collective In The Dark take us on a sonic journey into the wandering mind before the…

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Orphée

Cocteau’s most celebrated film marries classical legend to his own personal mythology in the story of a poet caught between the worlds of the real…

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The City Unfurled: Urban Diversions with Inua Ellams, Lauren Elkin, Jon Day and Morag Rose

Poet and founder of the Midnight Run Inua Ellams, modern day flâneurese Lauren Elkin and cyclegeorgrapher Jon Day traverse the city through poetry and mindwandering…

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Helen Mort: Running and the City

Helen Mort’s first full collection, Division Street, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2013, and shortlisted for both the TS Eliot Prize and the…

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Hubbub: Restless Cities

Professor Felicity Callard discusses the history of daydreaming, whilst Hubbub poets Emma Bennett and James Wilkes perform work that explores wandering inner voices.

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Siddhartha Bose: The Digital City

Siddhartha Bose is a poet, playwright, academic and theatre-maker based in Hackney, London. He has written and performed three works for theatre: Kalagora, London's Perverted…

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