lisa gee

14/4 Literary Dinner

There will be 14 authors and a 4 course meal.
At 14 tables, with eleven seats each.
That one seat is for an author.
Every table will have an author to host.
In fact, every table will host 4 different authors throughout dinner.

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The Unpredictable and Unexpected Rochefort en Accords – Day 1

I play some online snippets of Haitian singer James Germain but none of them come anywhere near reproducing what I’ve just experienced in the church, where I’d sat in on the first rehearsal for Rochefort en Accords. I try again. “It’s the voice you’d want to sing you out of one world into the next…”

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The Unpredictable and Unexpected Rochefort en Accords – Day 2

And this segue from full-on, straight ahead rock to something subtle and sophisticated with contemporary classical and jazz overtones is one of the joys of Rochefort en Accords.

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The Unpredictable and Unexpected Rochefort en Accords – Day 3

Next gig is back at the Jardin du Theatre. It kicks off with John Greaves on stage with Pion, Taylor, Laurent Valero and Jef Morin doing a song called “Les carottes sont cuites”. My iPad prefers “Les carottes Sontag cuites”. Am now feeling intellectually and creatively inferior to its predictive text facility.

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Marilynne Robinson, Nuclear Accidents And Complacency

The Observer revealed that between 2001-8 there were ‘more than 1,750 leaks, breakdowns or other “events”’ in Britain’s nuclear facilities (including Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire)

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