Festival Opening

Festival Opening

Featuring Exhibition openings and performances

@ Bury ArtGallery& Museum

Saturday 30th April 2011 / 11.00am

A celebration of visual poetry, sound, video and conceptual art with three Festival exhibitions and performances by international language artists from North America and Europe.

New works, installations and unique special commissions by Ron Silliman, Pavel Büchler, Derek Beaulieu, Tony Lopez, Geof Huth, David Osbaldeston, Holly Pester, Liz Collini.

Performances, inpromptu interventions and spontaneous outbursts by Márton Koppány, Marco Giovenale, Sarah Sanders, Helen White & Moniek Darge, Derek Beaulieu, Helmut Lemke and Hans Specht – from letters poetically blown from a balcony to conversations written on arms, remarkable readings and irrational sibyls-spreading action.

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SEE THE PROGRAM @ http://www.textfestival.com/