Jon Bonfiglio

The Emily Manuel Disaster

katri — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:12:02 +0000

Emily Manuel (as part of The Emily Manuel Disaster) is a singer/songwriter with a jazz/folk inflection to her work. She is currently gigging in various countries and working on her first album.

www.emilymanueldisaster.com

Something In The Water

Beatriz Canfield Zapata

katri — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:59:44 +0000

Beatriz Canfield Zapata is a Mexican artist who has produced work and exhibited internationally, including various public commissions. Currently based in Switzerland, she will be presenting new work in the UK, Spain and Mexico throughout 2010.

www.beatrizcanfieldzapata.com

Nancy Elizabeth

jon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:12:22 +0000

Nancy Elizabeth is a highly regarded folk vocalist who has played in Europe’s highest profile venues. In 2008 she toured to Mexico with Jon Bonfiglio and has just released her second album - Wrought Iron – on the Leaf label.

www.nancyelizabeth.co.uk

Nocturn

jon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:17:17 +0000

Nocturn was Jon Bonfiglio’s first produced play. Focusing on the relationship between three people who meet in the night on London’s streets in the long hot summer of 2003, it played for two weeks in London in 2006, featuring Julain Lamoral-Roberts and Ross Devlin.

On Movement (and Memory)

jon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:42:07 +0000

“Never stop, Natanael. As soon as an environment has

become like you, or you like your environment, it is no longer

of any use to you. Then you must leave it. Nothing is more

dangerous to you than your family, your room, your past.”

Andrè Gide.

On Movement (and Memory) is a wide-ranging talk on the way we move and the way that different kinds of displacement help us create memories. First given at Kuiperfest 2009, it has now featured at institutions in countries such as Scotland, Spain, Mexico, the United States, Gibraltar and England. It will continue to tour internationally throughout 2010 and 2011.

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Rik Warren

jon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:37:14 +0000

Rik Warren is a Blues musician of the highest order, playing individually as well as in groups such as Honey Feet and Ernie’s Rhythm Section. In 2010 he will be gigging throughout Mexico as well as returning to Spain for the very last Kuiperfest on 18th-20th June.

www.myspace.com/rikwarren

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Wind Song
St James Infirmary

Dave Rybka

jon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:33:26 +0000

Signed to Elbow’s Skinny Dog label, Dave Rybka and the Victorian Dad Band’s sounds have been wowing Manchester audiences for a long while now, but now they’re further afield, gigging in Europe and the Americas.

www.myspace.com/victoriandaad

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May We Meet Done

Human Remains

katri — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:50:22 +0000

In 1936, hundreds of British men went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Of all of them, only six fought for the Fascists.

Now, only one survives.

Human Remains opened at London’s Canal Cafe Theatre in August 2007 and was later adapted for radio.

El Divino Pastor

katri — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:56:01 +0000

El Divino Pastor, starring Carlos Cobos and written by Jaime Chabaud, played at the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 before returning to Mexico and then touring to Latin America.

Pluto

jon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:35:05 +0000

Ad astra per aspera
(A rough road leads to the stars)
Inscription at Launch Complex 34 at Kennedy Space centre where all three crew members of the first Apollp spacecraft died in 1967.

Our heroes and our Gods, under scrutiny, have become dwarves.
As if that was something they could ever be.
That we could ever allow.
That’s why we rail against the day’s passing, struggle to get in another word or action, because tomorrow…
Tomorrow we may not know where we stand.
Not recognise ourselves when we stop to look.

Pluto opened in London in May 2008 before transferring to Spain for the Kuiperfest festival, where it was also recorded live for radio broadcast.