Birds, a collection of facts, memories and musings

Birds, a collection of some facts, memories and musings is a spoken word piece devised by Iris Garrelfs. The performance is layered with fragments of memory, quiet philosophy and occasional facts, delivered through the lens of autobiographical reflection where birds intersect as symbols, companions, and questions.

I will add more details, and perhaps a recording, when it becomes available.

The piece was devised the for The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway: Migratory songbirds arrive in Cloudesley Square at the Writer’s Room, 26th April 2025, curated by Catherine Clover.

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‘The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway: Migratory songbirds arrive in Cloudesley Square – Performance Event’

Saturday 26th April, all welcome from 3pm, with a 4pm start

Seven writers, artists and musicians will join resident Catherine Clover with their sound/walking/writing/performance practices that lend themselves to an improvisation around the complex lives of the wild birds that live around us in our cities, specifically the return of the passage migrants during April/May along their north/south route known as the East Atlantic Flyway.

With reference to the concept of the Acoustic Commons, the sharing of sound, the event considers what sounds and songs belong to us all, and to all species, fairly and equally; songs which unify across geographies and landscapes through interspecies cohabitation, city-making practices, improvisation, experimentation.

Performers:
Melissa Alley
Remiiya Badru
Fabienne Formosa
Iris Garrelfs
Shauna Laurel Jones
Caroline Kennedy
Dr Yewande Okuleye
Catherine Clover

The Writer’s Room
Holy Trinity Church
Cloudesley Square
London N1 0HN