LATEST: Invited to read poetry and participate in the Oxford Radical Forum — a weekend of debates, discussions, work shops, film screenings, music and poetry — with Terry Eagleton and others. March 2-4 2012.
Nominated in the Farrago Poetry Zoo Awards, 27th January 2012.
Anna will be curating and presenting the new Poetry and Literary strand of events at the annual Rhythm Festival, August 24-26 2012, as MADAM MIAOW’S CULTURE LOUNGE.
STEAMPUNK OPIUM WARS AT THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM. Anna Chen hosts an evening of poetry, performance and ‘tongue-in-cheek Chinoiserie’ in an evening of satirical events themed around the Opium Wars -part of the ‘Traders Unpacked’ series of events celebrating the launch of the National Maritime Museum’s ‘Traders: The East India Company and Asia’ gallery. 6.30-10pm Thursday 16th February 2011 More information here. And on Facebook.
St Ives and Me, BBC Radio 4
11:30am, Thursday 1st December 2011
Anna has been visiting the Cornish seaside town since she was a child. In St Ives and Me, she explains the attraction of the artists’ colony and why it is like catnip to anyone with a creative bone in their body.
PHOTOS of Anna May Wong Must Die! at the New Diorama Theatre, 10th & 12th November 2011, here
ANNA MAY WONG MUST DIE!
Written and performed by Anna Chen
Live music accompaniment from Charles Shaar Murray and Marc Jefferies
New Diorama Theatre, London NW1 3BF
Thursday 10th November 19:30
Saturday 12th November 20:30
£8.50/£6.50
There will be a Q&A after the Saturday performance
Presented by True Heart Theatre as part of their In The Mirror season
Anna performs at the lunchtime Norway Square sessions at the St Ives Arts Festival 10 – 25 September 2011. Anna May Wong Must Die! as a work-in-progress at the New Diorama Theatre near Euston in London as part of the week-long In The Mirror event: Thursday 10th and Saturday 12th November 2011. Plus two more radio commissions for BBC Radio 4.
Tuesday 5th April 2011
Utter ‘Pointlessness’ Poetry
Hosted by Richard Tyrone Jones
Thursday 31st March 2011
7.30 pm
Featured poet
Farrago Poetry Slam
RADA Café
Malet Street WC1E 7H
Apples & Snakes, Jawdance
Ten minute feature spot
Wednesday 19th January 2011.
Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London, E1 6LA
www.richmix.org.uk
BOX OFFICE:
020 7613 7498
boxoffice@richmix.org.uk
FARRAGO POETRY
16th December 2010
RADA Café
Malet Street WC1E 7H
Ten-minute feature spot.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY POETRY SOCIETY (OUPS)
Launch performance, 28th October 2010. Mary Ogilvy Theatre, St Anne’s. More here