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Event: CiTY NiGHTfall - reflections on Kenneth Slessor with music by Ashley Chatto and performances by the creative crew from Laureate Productions.

Venue: The Seymour Centre, Downstairs
Address: corner of Cleveland Street and City Road, opposite the University of Sydney
Shows: 2 performances
Dates: Wednesday 22nd September (22/9)
Time: at 8.45pm
Tickets: $28 and $24 concession
Bookings through http://www.thesydneyfringe.com.au/

About CiTY NiGHTfall –
TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME with a series of shapes from the pages of much loved Australian modernist poet, Kenneth Slessor.

Proceeding from experience of a past Sydney through visions that hold a momentary exaltation extending from the 1930s. Poetic images that evoke the sensory qualities of experience in flesh and blood, lived with ‘feel’.

LAUREATE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS...CiTY NiGHTfall

About the creative crew for CiTY NiGHTfall:

Ashley Chatto is a composer, jazz and classical guitarist, pianist who has worked with some of the Australia’s leading jazz players. He has composed music for theatre, film and big bands. His last major work was writing the music to An Evening of Darlinghurst Nights, by Kenneth Slessor, which premiered in association with the 2009 Sydney Writers Festival.

John Carey is a Sydney poet, author of three collections. He is an ex-teacher of French and Latin and a former actor, mostly with Newtown's New Theatre.

Jeff Crawley was part of the band 'Astro Tabasco' who were a leading funk, rock, surf band in Sydney. He Jeff has played with many jazz, rock bands in Sydney most notably 'The Whitlams'.

Geir Brillian Gunnarsson is a native of Iceland, and a musician of sorts. He has been producing and composing music for the last 22 years. Recipient of the Best Original Score award at Tropfest 2009, and producer for many albums in including; Ophelia of the Spirits, Harii Bandhu, Oka, Favourite Son, Kiko etc. He writes music for theatre, and is always on the lookout for new avenues for his endeavors. Currently he is producing a variety of singer/songwriters, as well as putting the finishing touches on his album "Friends Lovers & Others" under the moniker of "Pearldivers of the Subconcious".

Katherine Ellis is a singer, performer and a visual artist. She has been a pregnant ribbon dancer after an awesome foursome with the Olympics swimming team, a devout Christian house wife with a copy of Oprah Winfrey’s wise quotes, a nazi leotard wearing physical education instructor and a perpetual brides maid out for revenge as the front woman for Sydney bands Hubris and Kathellisism. Her performance style is very theatrical using costumes and characters. She has performed at festivals around Australia, Europe and Java, Indonesia with her bands and as a guest performer. She co-devised and performed in a theatrical performance with Vashti Hughes and Trash Vaudeville for the Kings Cross Festival. She has M.C.’d events such as the Newtown festival and various gigs and corporate events around Sydney. Kath also performed in An Evening of Darlinghurst Nights by Kenneth Slessor in association with the 2009 Sydney Writers Festival.

Martin Langford has published six books of poetry, including The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (P&W, 2009). Thematically, he is interested in the way we try to imagine ourselves beyond our biological inheritance, and in the evolution of our social and imaginative spaces. He lives on the northern outskirts of Sydney, and the landscape of that area often features in his work. In Microtexts (Island 2005), which is a book of poetics, he argues for poetry’s engagement with the other, and against the enlargement obsessions of our standard narratives. He is the editor of Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (P&W, 2009).

Scott Leishman studied music at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he has played with many of the leading Jazz musicians in Sydney. He worked with Jackie Orszaczky for over a decade and was part of Jackie's most influential bands 'The Godmothers'. He is also in demand as a Bass player working in any musical style.

Angela Stretch is the founder of Wordjammin’, a Sydney based organisation that fosters poetry and spoken word. Angela’s work extends to visual art that explores text with audio-visual technologies and was awarded People’s Choice Award at the 2008 Australian Ethical Art Prize. Staged an audio-visual poem Five Buoys, housed in a 44 foot geo-desic dome, River Beats Festival 2008. She was awarded Highly Recommended in the Marrickville Council Art Prize 2009. Curator of New Directions, a collection of video-poems for the Australian Poetry Festival 2008 and Overload Poetry Festival 2009. Produced, Directed and performed in An Evening of Darlinghurst Nights by Kenneth Slessor in association with the 2009 Sydney Writers Festival.

Marc Van Doornum is one of the leading Flamenco Guitarists in Australia he has worked with many of the top Flamenco artists in Australia including many years working with Diana Reyes Flamenco Dance Company. He has also recently finished studying guitar in Spain with some of the best flamenco guitarists in the world. When not playing flamenco he plays jazz and composes music.

“Writing poetry is a pleasure, ...a pleasure out of hell”
- Kenneth Slessor 1947

Poems from Darlinghurst Nights, used by kind permission of P Slessor and HarperCollins. Virgil Reilly drawings used by kind permission of T Thompson and ETT Imprint.