Just how connected are we? Skype Me! brings together writers from Sheffield and around the world for an evening of international writing, with performances in person and on screen beamed into Showroom 5, plus a specially commissioned 'Skype script'. Join us for a journey across continents and time zones, from the United States to Europe and Asia.
The Writers
In Sheffield, Rob Hindle will be reading from a new poem-drama about the last weeks in the life of Frederico Garcia Lorca, Chella Quint will be putting in an epistolary performance of 'It's Not You, I Just Need Space' (interplanetary letters of love and rejection), Gaby Bila-Günther will be stopping by from Berlin, and there'll be Kenneth Penfold's radio drama 'Closure' and poetry from Liz Cashdan and Word Life's Joe Kriss.
On Skype, we'll be hearing from the master of irony himself, Canadian spoken word artist Jeff Cottrill, and Texas jam poet Thom the World Poet. We'll also be stopping by two writers in South Africa, Liesl Jobson and Tanya Chan-Sam, who'll be reading her story 'How God Blessed Africa', and Miwa Kurihara in Japan. Plus one international mystery guest to be announced! Spain, India, Singapore...the bets are on!