Coelacanth Events
16th December 2011
The Drawing Room, Tavistock Sq, London, 6.30-8.30pm.
For the launch of Issue 7 - High Rise, Naomi Pearce, Alice Hattrick and Patrick Langley from the MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art did a performance reading on the theme of lifts.
30th July 2011
COMMA 37: Arnaud Desjardin - One DAY Event at Bloomberg SPACE, 11am-5pm.
The Coelacanth Press stall presented a new zine about Patricia Highsmith - Strangers in a Zine! - and a new publication on the paintings of Diana Roberts.
21st January 2011
The Coelacanth Journal Issue 6 - It Came In The Night Launch at The Phoenix Artists’ Club, London, 6.30-late.
A very special guest performance by NYC’s MargOH! Channing at The Phoenix Club to mark the launch of the Journal's sixth issue.
17th April 2011
X Marks the Bökship, 210 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9NQ, 6pm.
A Screening of ‘The Films of Sally Cruikshank’ - An interview with Sally Cruikshank features in The Coelacanth Journal No.6 – It Came in the Night.
23rd July 2010
Vilma Gold, 6 Minerva Street, London E2 9EH, 6 - 10pm.
The Coelacanth Journal - Issue No. 5 Restoration was launched at Vilma Gold with a special Coelacanth Lecture by Sidsel Christensen, dance performance by Alice Theobald, Adam Christensen with Leonardo Boix, and music by Design A Wave featuring Vincent Larkin.
2nd December 2009
The Phoenix Artists’ Club, London, 7-9 pm, Adam Christensen and Katie Horwich.
A reading by Adam Christensen and exhibition of paintings by Katie Horwich to mark the launch of the Journal's fourth issue.
19th September 2009
South London Cultural Centre, London, 7.30 pm - 12 am.
A screening of A Taste of Honey, a performance by Alice Theobald and Design A Wave, records from Rowland Thomas and a politically correct Quorn Raffle.
There will also be a prize for best costume. Think: angry young men, backstreet abortions, dancehall brawls, Up The Junction, John Bratby, Rita Tushingham, Rita, Sue and Bob, Romeo Brass, brassy blondes, white sliced and Play for Today.
5th June 2009
Donlon Books, London, 7-9 pm, Urara Tsuchiya and Justin Eagle & Katherine Gardner.
A performance and exhibition to mark the launch of the Journal's third issue.
Please note, Justin Eagle's archive on third genration New Towns and Justin Eagle & Katherine Gardner's posters French Eye and Psychobabylon will be on display at Donlon Books from 5th June onwards.
10th December 2008
Donlon Books, London, 7-9 pm, Adam Christensen The Dolly Mixtures, Zoe Brown and Captain Zip.
Four happenings to mark the launch of the Journal's second issue, including An Evening of Tonguing and Fingering.
2nd September 2008
Sillitoe Room at Waterstones, Nottingham, 2 pm, Byronicals: Without Pomp or Nonsense.
A Reading Room session in response to Nottingham Contemporary and in association with Hinterland Projects, Nottingham.
6th August 2008
Shipley Books, London, 7.45 pm, Performance by Martina Schmuecker.
To mark the launch of the Coelacanth Journal Martina will be showing a new, site-specific work entitled, An English Night Out.
1st August 2008
Resonance 104.4fm, 11.30-12.30 pm, Mining for Gold.
Phoebe Blatton and Susan Finlay in conversation with author Sara Kirkwood. Discussion and music relating to the press.