Miriam Barr
Murray Lee
Christian Jensen
Sabrina Muck
Murray Haddow
Past Literartists:
Shane Hollands - Founder of The Literatti. Creative Director 2005-2006.
Andra - Literartist 2006 - June 2008. One of the original crew.
Charis Boos - Literartist 2007 - Feb 2008. On hiatus until the Institute of Modern Letters gives her back!
The Purple Duck - Melbourne. Literartist in 2006. One of the original crew.
Sally Legg - Literartist in 2006. One of the original crew.
Annaleise Kugler - Literartist in 2006. One of the original crew.
Associated Musicians:
Craig Humphries - our main musician and member of Just the Tikit
Glen Conroy - musician - Just the Tikit
Kerrin Worsfold - musician - Just the Tikit
Fiona Holding - musician - the cellist behind Gristle & the Abyss
The Purple Duck - musician (Alternative Angels, Gristle & the Abyss, Time Machine)
Daniel Larsen - Sound technician
Associated Artists
Kate Barton - animations (NFA, How My Brain Betrays Me, Alternative Angels, Old Poem, Oscillations).
Erin Gaffney - still images and animation (Ja Ja)
Darcy Gladwin - photography
Influences
The Def Jam Poets
Ani Di Franco
Merryn Cadell
Genevieve McLean
Apirana Taylor
John Cooper Clarke
Charles Bukowski
Linton Kwesi Johnson
The Wellington Word Collective
Tusiata Avia
Brought together in late 2005 by Shane Hollands, Auckland-based performance poetry group, The Literatti, have been presenting their fusion of poetry, music, and theatre to delighted audiences since 2006.
The Literatti utilise aspects of theatre, music, song, and still and moving visual art to supplement performance and poetry. We do not read or even recite poetry, Literartists work to personify poetry. With their signature multiple-poet performance pieces, The Literatti create an almost symphonic display of contemporary word play. The group creates an atmosphere or environment within which the poem can exist using sets, back-drops and other elements which are usually considered to belong to the realm of theatre, transforming the poem into a living entity with movement, breath and behaviour.
The Literatti are currently working on a new show with Chicago-based performance poet, Nikki Patin. Their long-distance collaboration, Growl, will hit the stage at The London Bar on March 7th in conjunction with the 2009 Auckland Fringe Festival.
The Literatti are also available for performance workshops, both with adults and with high-school students. Their recent project, Snapshots, involved working with 27 year 10 EGGS students. The end product being a 30 minute student-written, performance poetry show which opened for One Foot Forward at The Lady Fisher Auditorium.
For bookings please contact creative director Miriam Barr by emailing miriam1barr16 AT gmail DOT com
Appearances include:
A New History of Poetry @ Shanghai Lils, The Kerouac Effect 07 & 08, Happy's, The Whangarei Midwinter Arts Festival 07, The Parihaka International Peace Festival 07 & 08, The Classic Studio, The Roasted Series 1, 2 & 3 @ Roasted Addiqtion, The Montana Poetry Day Slam, Alt TV, Kiwi FM, RadioActive, RadioOne, JAM Radio, The Ubud Readers and Writers Festival 2007, Rhyme or Reason @ The Wine Cellar, Parnell Festival of Roses 08, Wallace Trust Art Gallery, Word of Mouth @ The Dunedin Fringe Festival 08, Word of Mouth @ TAPAC (2008), The Auckland Art Gallery's Winter Warmers Series (2008), One Foot Forward @ The Lady Fisher Auditorium (2008) ....
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10K Poets takes poetry submissions. Details on how to submit are on our front page. Stop by & read the most original POETS on MySpace that you will ever encounter. Believe in the WORD! Believe in 10K Poets!
Love what you've got going on over here! 'American Dream' is brilliant, though it sounds more like an Los Angeles dream. We are a lot less shallow and bit more 'like it is' over here in NYC! At least, I think we are! But it packed a punch, for certain. I have to still go through all the video's, but hats off to you...brilliant stuff! All the best, Cyndi D.
Metonymy Collaboration Project 2008. Partnering Auckland artists and writers to create new and exciting collaborative works. Enter at metonymy08. blogspot. com/ Entries close March 10th. Partnerships announced March 15th. Exhibition 14th May Cross Street Studios
We invite you to listen to DIAL-A-DIVA on Saturday 8th September.
VOCAL PERFORMERS from around the world have signed up for a 24 hour arts extravaganza that's shaping up to be one of this year's cultural highlights.
DIAL-A-DIVA connects an audience and performers by telephone, for 24 hours on September 8th 2007.
Each artist's performance is transmitted via their telephone into a conference call. The audience can then dial in to listen to the phonecast. An internet webcast will also be available. The event will start in New Zealand at 8pm local time. We will follow 8pm around the world with artists participating throughout Australasia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas. It will culminate 24 hours later as 8pm crosses the dateline once more.
It’s NZ Music Month! You probably knew that. Still, you can come by our page and check out some of the awesome and diverse musicians we’re promoting - in our top friends!
We also just busted down some swell promo specials on for posters, cd reproduction and online promo even cheaperer til the end of the month. Cheers, Kurb Promo....
The Literatti left the party
at the hottest time of the day -
blazing and lazing a little longer
enjoying even longer grass
before loading reggae legs and writer's gears into white car (black pants)
and rolling out of Parihaka
Literartists...It was so good to kick back in that hot-tent hangi of poetry soul-food at Parihaka and see you shine...Hands in the air! Under the mountain. Festival fun eh?
Ma te wa
arohanui,
Stephanie
