The Cockpit Brings Ritual Money Burning to the Stage in POETRY IS F**CKING WITH OUR FINANCES

Based on Roy Hutchin's POETRY CAN F*CK OFF, the Cockpit draws on the idea of weaving Williams' words with guest performers, music, visual wonders, and ritual money burning to explore topics and provoke new thinking.

Conceived & compiled by Dave Wybrow & Daisy Campbell. In collaboration with Roy Hutchins. Convened & scripted by Daisy Campbell

Sunday 23rd October - Poetry Can Fuck Up YOUR FINANCES

Let's fuck with the money machine! Is it a kind of black-magic as Heathcote Williams says? Or the most sacred and ancient mystery of them all as ritual money-burner Jon Harris would have us believe? A night of ritual magic and coruscating poetic argument as we delve into the secrets of those bits of paper we all worship in an exploration around the ideas of sacrifice and money as desire.

With Capitalism as cult, in the mindspace of Occupy, and burning as purification, we'll be using words predominantly by Heathcote Williams, HaKim Bey and Jon Harris, with other commentators and poets woven through.

Interspersed will be three speakers: Vinay Gupta, John Higgs and CJ Stone - who will talk about the future of money, Universal Basic Income, and a plan to use magic to transmute the banking system. Performers include Jacqueline Haigh, Michael McKoen (Dr Blue), Roy Hutchins - and more...

The evening will culminate in a money-burning ritual - for those who wish to take part.

Sunday 4th December - Poetry f-cks Over Migrants: WORLD ON THE MOVE

Is it time to fuck off? Evolutionary thinkers gather to debate the best ways to respond to mass migration and the refugee crisis, woven together with poetry and music from Heathcote Williams and friends. How has migration inspired art and literature throughout history, and what now are the most creative reactions to a world on the move?

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