{"id":17416,"date":"2018-05-17T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=17416"},"modified":"2018-05-17T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:54:30","slug":"rising-star-of-spoken-word-to-bring-drum-solo-for-dementia-to-edinburgh-festival-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/rising-star-of-spoken-word-to-bring-drum-solo-for-dementia-to-edinburgh-festival-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising star of spoken word to bring &#8216;drum solo for dementia&#8217; to Edinburgh Festival Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subtitled <strong>A Drum Solo for Dementia<\/strong>, the 60-minute show is a mesmeric display of drumming and spoken word in which poems become beats and beats become glitches in time. Reading-born Antosh, 26, tells the moving story of his Polish grandfather&#8217;s struggle against Alzheimer&#8217;s and the effect it had on the people around him. &#8220;I want to de-stigmatise dementia and give it a human voice,&#8221; he says. &#8220;By combining spoken word with music I want to unlock some critical questions about memory and language. What happens when memories disappear? Where do they go and can we get them back? Can I use my drums to communicate with my grandfather?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How to Keep Time will be presented at <strong>Summerhall<\/strong> as part of their 2018 Fringe programme, with previews starting 1st August. Early versions have been performed at Camden People&#8217;s Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall, Roundhouse and Verve Poetry Festival. Verve&#8217;s co-director Stuart Bartholomew dubbed the show <strong>&#8220;moving, entertaining and uplifting&#8221;<\/strong>, while Maria Parsons of the Creative Dementia Arts Network has praised Antosh&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;terrific use of drumming as a bridge for language in dementia&#8221;<\/strong>. Producer Tom Chivers of literary arts company Penned in the Margins says, &#8220;I am delighted to be showcasing a fresh, exciting spoken word talent in Antosh Wojcik at a venue rightly celebrated for supporting experimental performance and generating dialogue between medical science and the performing arts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_zXjfBPfTk\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antosh Wojcik<\/strong> was a resident artist at the Roundhouse and is a member of poetry collectives Kid Glove and Burn After Reading. He has performed at festivals including Glastonbury, Latitude and Bestival. Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/antoshwojcik\">@antoshwojcik<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Penned in the Margins<\/strong> is an award-winning independent publisher and literary arts producer. Their pioneering productions include Kalagora (2011) and No Dogs, No Indians (2017) by Siddhartha Bose, the medieval re-imagining Fair Field (2017) and solo shows by Hannah Silva and Ross Sutherland. Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pennedinthem\">@PennedintheM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using just his voice and a Roland TD-4KP electronic drumkit, award-winning poet Antosh Wojcik explores the effects of dementia on speech, memory and family in his debut work for theatre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/01\/how-to-keep-time-a-drum-solo-for-dementia\/\">How to Keep Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17416"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17440,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions\/17440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}