Global Odes : a socio-poetical audio doco!

The Red Room Company  is creating a unique
audio
documentary `Global
Odes', to be recorded at The Newcastle Young
Writers'
Festival
(NYWF) in October,
2003.           &n
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`Global Odes' will explore how issues, based on social and
political

themes of national and global significance, affects the writing of

poets
attending the Newcastle Young Writers' Festival. Original
poetry,
interview
snippets and other recordings will be combined to
create an audio
theatrical
thesis on the responses new Australian
poetry and poets have to
their
current social landscape.

`Global Odes' aims to be broadcast as
separate
pieces for national
broadcast through national community Red Room
Radio
links. The
project will also be submitted to various government
bodies and
arts
organizations as an example of what and how new Australian
writers

react to the social and political landscape of their country.

Snippets of the project and other details will be available for

listening at www.redroomorganisation.org, and
http://www.youngwritersfestival.org. Ideas relating to `Global Odes'
will also
be posted on
the online forum at
http://www.youngwritersfestival.org

Any individuals attending
the festival
who are interested in
contributing to this unique project please
email

johanna@redroomorganisation.org. Poets, lyricists, sound

experimenters,
novelists- anyone who has a response to `Global Odes'
we want your
ideas and
your poetry

We are also looking for ARTISTS to design an image to

accompany all
visual material related to Global Odes. This image
will be
used in
different sizes and places, such as website, publicity and
perhaps a

CD cover. For more details email johanna@redroomorganisation.org or

email your illustrations and ideas.

The project is currently
without
funding, so any individuals or
organizations excited to assist us
with in
kind donations or
financial support