Park Nights: Edgware Road and Etel Adnan

Centre for Possible StudiesSerpentine Gallery

3 Sep 2010 - 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Park Nights: Edgware Road and Etel Adnan

Admission Free

The Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist Etel Adnan and friends convened an evening of readings, film screenings and music, derived from work underway at the Serpentine Gallery's Centre for Possible Studies.

Park Nights

Park Nights is an annual series of music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings staged on Friday nights in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed in 2010 by Jean Nouvel. Park Nights culminated on the weekend of 16 and 17 October with Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon, the latest in the Serpentine's series of Marathon events, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Featured Artist

Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan (b. 1925, Beirut) is a poet, essayist and visual artist who divides her time between Lebanon, France and the USA. She retired from a permanent teaching position in the late 1970s and now devotes herself to her art and writing. A powerful voice in feminist and antiwar movements, Adnan has published several works of poetry and fiction, among which are Sitt Marie Rose (1978), The Arab Apocalypse (1989) and Master of the Eclipse (2009).

As part of the Serpentine Gallery's Park Nights series, on Friday 3 September 2010, Etel Adnan convened an evening of readings and music celebrating the Edgware Road Project, in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel. During this evening, Adnan read from her poetry collection, Seasons (2005) and her memoir, In the Heart of the Heart of another Country (2005). The evening also included music from composer Gavin Bryars' song cycle, Adnan Songbook (1996), which set to music a group of eight of Adnan's love poems from her collection, The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems (1985).

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