NOW BOOKING AT OD ARTS FESTIVAL, SOMERSET:
http://odartsfestival.co.uk/bram-thomas-arnold/
The Outer Circle
Bibliotherapy For The Anthropocene is a performance in the guise of a reading group: it is a faux-Quaker meeting, a reconvening of the Dead Poets Society, a space awash with awkward silences, cheap jokes and ways of coping with the end of the world, ways of coping with living in the Anthropocene: it is usually undertaken in a locked room. No prior reading is necessary as all participants will receive a strata of the reading material as part of the invitation prior to their initiation into the group. For Alone With Everybody Bibliotherapy For The Anthropocene will be occupying that online working social everything-everything-space, that black hole of Calcutta of ambience, that modern day séance that is Zoom. Limited to only 20 participants per session we will come to gather together online, everybody alone in a state of reverence, the sort of reverence you would bring to a church perhaps, to listen and think and talk and wonder aloud and in silence at what it is to be alone and together at this time of geological change, transitioning from one epoch to another. I preferred it in the Holocene.
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There will be pieces of paper in everyone’s hands labeled with titles like II. The Middle Way and III. The Inner Circle. Everyone will receive something in the post, everyone will receive both something different and something the same, no one has to read out loud, no one has to say anything, everyone has to have their microphones on, everyone has to have their cameras on, so find yourself a quiet place at a quiet time and join us on Friday 28th May at 6.30AM or Sunday 6th June at 7.30PM. At the end, we will find ourselves a song to listen to and quietly re-enter the world with a new perspective. These are the rules…
Everything else is up to you
Welcome to
Bibliotherapy For The Anthropocene
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