BAD IDEA guest curates French Connection Friday Late

If you weren’t yet aware, BAD IDEA is hosting this months Friday Late at the V&A on May 30. We’ve called it ‘The Art of Confession’, and it explores modern story telling and group confession with an evening of writing, debate, performances and interactive installations. The first Friday Late to be produced in partnership with new sponsors French Connection, the evening will include the chance to feature in and take home a limited edition BAD IDEA pamphlet.

Other highlights include:

• Authors including novelist Niven Govinden and Billy Briggs (winner of Amnesty International’s Scottish Media Award in 2005) giving readings from BAD IDEA: The Anthology, a collection of non-fiction writing from the first two years of the magazine.
• Submit your own confessional short story to the Tell All Printing Press, and BAD IDEA’s contributing editor Alyssa McDonald and the Crafternoon collective will create a pamphlet using your contribution, distributed on the evening.
• A screening of the winning films from BAD IDEA’S The Art of Confession competition created in collaboration with Channel 4.
• The Modern Confessor: a chance to confess your sins to new age gurus and mute marionette’s and receive surprise absolution from art collective ContainerPLUS.
• Soapbox Docudramas: write a personal story and watch as a group of improvisors from the Ahh Performance Lab dramatise your life in front of a watching crowd.
• Rough Trade DJs including label founder Geoff Travis and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti.
• A lecture with Tom Hodgkinson (The Idler), Tom Bromley (Portico), Charlie Campbell (Ed Victor Agency), Michael Moran (Times online book editor) and author Mil Millington on the future of storytelling in a digital age.

And best of all, it’s FREE.

Posted by Daniel Stacey in Other | May 29, 2008 8:56AM |