After Dark Reading Club
Sun 12 Jan 2025 4:17 PM - 6:00 PM
(outside) St Mary Le Strand Church, WC2R 1ES
Description
A reading group organised by Alisa Oleva, hosted by FIELDNOTES.
The After Dark Reading Club will involve a collective reading of texts about darkness as the sun sets and the street lamps turn on.
The club is an invitation to bring a text about darkness for a collective reading in a public space. The text might be about darkness and the city, darkness and nature, darkness and walking, etc. The text might be an article, a poem, a story, a book, a social media post, a letter, a song, it might be something you have written or something encountered.
We will meet at sunset and read together for about an hour as darkness descends and then go somewhere indoors nearby to get warm and discuss the readings.
Bring texts and snacks if you wish. Also bring a cup – I will bring some tea. It will likely be cold – so dress warm and bring layers.
We will meet by the tables and chairs in front of St Mary Le Strand Church, London.
This is a FREE event but spaces are limited, please only book if you are able to attend.
Please contact us at info@fieldnotes.site with any queries about access requirements.
ABOUT ALISA OLEVA
Alisa Oleva treats the city as her studio and urban life as material, considering issues of urban choreography and urban archeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. Her projects have manifested as a series of interactive situations, performances, movements scores, personal and intimate encounters, parkour, walkshops, and audio walks.
ABOUT FIELDNOTES
FIELDNOTES is an artist-run publishing project based in Newham in east London. We produce an annual print journal alongside a public programme of workshops, mentoring opportunities, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. Founded in 2020, FIELDNOTES aims to promote and support non-conforming creative practices that pioneer new cultural forms. We seek to challenge the systemic inequalities that limit opportunities in the arts by working with individuals and communities who may not find support elsewhere. Our purpose is to provide a test site for poetic innovation, a place for new voices and collaborations, a venue for experimental modes and fresh departures between disciplines. We are interested in the third thing between two known things; we are looking for the spaces between translations and transitions.
Location
(outside) St Mary Le Strand Church, WC2R 1ES