Jarman In Pieces Performance at the Centre
The Leicester LGBT Centre will be hosting Jarman in Pieces by Project Adorno, a performance collage comprising original songs, film, and interviews from people who knew the gay rights activist author Derek Jarman.
The event will take place at the Leicester LGBT Centre on the 23rd of February 2018 from 6.30 to 9.30. After the 1 hour performance, we will be playing Jarman’s last film Blue (1993) and everyone will be more than welcome to stay for it. Get your tickets before they get sold out!
“A multi-media experience with a good deal of entertaining and thought-provoking music” ScotsGay magazine.
Who was Derek Jarman?
Filmmaker, painter, gay rights activist, author, gardener — Derek Jarman packed many roles into a short life. Twenty years from his death, his standing has never been higher. And yet he remains a contradictory figure: a self-effacing exhibitionist, a well-to-do RAF child who embraced the possibilities of punk. For decades, he was a thorn in the establishment’s side and yet is now dangerously close to something he would have hated — the status of national treasure.
About Project Adorno…
Project Adorno are a two-man arts collective from southwest London whose electro-pop cabaret live performances read like a quirky thesis on popular culture from the last 30 years.
Project Adorno have performed widely across the UK over the last fifteen years including ten Edinburgh Fringe shows, numerous appearances at the Buxton Fringe and Cheltenham literature and Latitude festivals. They have also appeared on BBC radio’s The Verb.
Previous shows include Stop the Tardis, a sci-fi inspired performance poetry piece, Dr Dewey Decimal, a musical all about libraries, and The London Years — a melancholy-infused celebration of the capital’s quirkier corners. In addition to their Jarman multimedia show they have also completed a similar piece about the playwright Dennis Potter. This was performed at Buxton Fringe 2016 before touring a number of fringe cabaret venues during 2017.
