Purple Poet Prepares to Perform Political Poetry Perfectly (by sarah)

I'm off to Oxford tonight for The Not The Oxford Literary Festival at the Albion Betnik. This marks the beginning of a hectic and creative few weeks for me.

Tonight I perform political pieces such as my No Wage Slave poem and Shit Creek song.

I decided as part of this I needed to re-dye my hair - it has not come out as purple as I'd hoped but will probably be more purple after a few washes. The lipstick is also not my favourite but was the only decent one I have so far unpacked and I thought it gave a nice contrast. I've added in my festival hat as well it is a festival and here we go!

The End of NSEW (by sarah)

So we have reached the end of National Science and Engineering Week - I have had fun following things on twitter and the like - but also seriously talking to gallery owners about putting on a Science Art Exhibition for next year.

I would also like to see more local event - I could find nothing in my area - maybe I was looking in the wrong places. We were going to go down to London to join in some stuff there but due to car braking down Alaric couldn't take me and the girls with him to London (he had to go in anyway on the train to replace our servers!).

Another thing is that I hadn't realised how many science poems I have! There are all the ones from this years World Poetry Writing Month challenge for a start - I'd focused on science and nature poetry written from New Scientist and National Geographic prompts.

So next year I plan to release the full Ballads of the Scientifica - book, CD and science art post cards.

Tomorrow will be the last day to get your free down load of what is already there.

Colours Song (by sarah)

The lyrics are wrong and Jean forgot what she was doing and it was filmed before we moved but I thought it fitted with the National Science and Engineering theme I was going for with this weeks posts - so here is what is essentially an outtake of a science song for kids I am working on.

Ballads of the Scientifica (by sarah)

Todays science-art is an album of science and tech poetry, a possible life origins story and the song I Want To Know Everything. It is available as a free download for the remainder of the week 🙂

Enjoy

And Now…. an Organ! (by sarah)

So we are on a strict budget for the house - so we went to the charity shop to get a sofa bed... we ended up with an electric organ - a Hammond with Liesel Chorus and stuff!

Alaric is as ecstatic as me and Jeany is really excited and Mary has discovered foot pedals!

Alaric says he knows where this is going though - he envisions Jean pressing down keys and Mary pushing down peddles whilst I reciet poetry and him holding microphones in various rediculous poses.

Part of me does wonder weather I should have taken the piano instead though - but this just has more functionality and wacky electroness that I am just itching to sample.