Bare Naked Poetry
Poetry reading
1.5 hrs
January 17, 2015 7:30 pm Saturday
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Bare Naked Poetry calls all loving listeners to Lamakaan for a night of poetry, pictures and sound. Based on the original work of Australian writer Kat Hummel--accompanied by local musician Ujjal Kumar Saha--and performed in the spirit of free expression and full disclosure, Bare Naked Poetry promises to be a night of no meter, no rhyme and no worries. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Organizer
Kathryn Hummel
Kathryn Hummel writes award-winning non-fiction, fiction and poetry, often combined with her photography for digital performance. Her diverse work has been published and presented throughout Australia, New Zealand, the US, and Eastern, Western and Southern Asia. A former writer in residence for the Cafe Poet Program (Australian Poetry) and the Forever Now project (APHIDS and Vitalstatistix), Kathryn was awarded a PhD for studies in narrative ethnography in 2013, and in the same year, won the Dorothy Porter Award for poetry in the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards. Poems from Here, her debut collection, is available through Australia’s Walleah Press. **** Ujjal Kumar Saha is a classically trained jazz guitarist who has been playing bebop, funk and fusion jazz for more than 20 years. Previously based in Kolkata, Ujjal has performed with international jazz artistes like Angela Hagenbach, Larry Correal, Thebe Libre and Paul Robson. Recently, Ujjal has been working and researching the concept of healing patients--emotionally, cognitively, physically and socially--through live solo guitar playing, expanding the scope of conventional music therapy, in collaboration with Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad and has formed a company called Blue Key Productions dedicated in this service. Ujjal also performs in jazz and fusion shows across India as part of a duo or trio under the name ‘Ujjal Kumar Saha Group’.