march 2005

My One and Only Love

By Gilad Atzmon

will be published on March 04

by Saqi Books

To read  extracts:

http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/Platikus.ht 

To buy on line:

Amazon.co.uk

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Jazz cd.co.uk

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Saqi Book Shop (the publisher)

http://www.saqibooks.com/ItemsStore.asp?sku=0863565077

'A seriously funny writer and the wittiest musician since Ronnie Scott ... We're lucky Gilad Atzmon is around.' Robert Wyatt

'Gilad Atzom's new novel brings a panoply of convincing, crazed and comic voices together. A dramatic and entertaining satire and a welcome left-field look at Israeli self-identity.' Nicholas Blincoe

Danny Zilber is a world-acclaimed trumpet player. A constant procession of women traipse through his dressing room, yet none can satisfy his need for love. Until, that is, an encounter with a mysterious woman who leaves just as quickly as she drops her clothes.....

Murder, sexual manipulation, viral infection, the abduction of Nazis - these are just some of the means Danny's manager and his compatriots employ in order to safeguard the security of Israel and propagate German guilt. Meanwhile Danny holds dear the sole memento he has of that fateful meeting - the brassiere his 'one and only' left behind.

Veering from the ridiculous to the sublimely funny, My One and Only Love is a scathingly comic take on Zionist politics and Israeli espionage.

Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble,
@ the Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, London.

9-12 March 2005 (on the 11th 2 Shows)

BOOK LAUNCH:
‘MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE’
Saqi Book

Dear Friends

After a busy few months touring in the UK and just before  launching  our European tour  we are pleased to announce our return to London's Pizza Express Jazz Club. We will play musiK as well as new material that is yet to be composed. This time we will Launch my new novel 'My One and Only Love' (Saqi Books).

Thank you all for your ongoing support. We look forward to seeing you in
March

For Booking: 020 7 439 8722
Excerpt - Believe me as soon as he said “Italian” I started to see the numbers moving again. Even when he said “Ita” before he got to the “lian” I started to feel the big transition. The numbers started to run again like in an autostrada. This time it wasn’t like in petrol station I tell you, it was fast like in the scientific nuclear reactor in Weitzman Institute in Rechovot. When he said “serenades” and “tarantellas” I felt another fresh wave of a strong numbers. I was holding my skull to prevent it from exploding. The numbers were moving so fuck’n fast. I felt that I was about to die. I was in the sky and I felt  strong tickling all over my body specially in the feet between the toes. Suddenly I felt somebody slapping my face. I opened my eyes and saw him standing above shouting “Mr Shtil, Mr Shtil, are you OK? Shall I call an ambulance?” Being in a  craze I shouted back, “don’t call me Mr Shtil call me Avrum, call me Avrum, call me Avrum, Avrum Avrum …” then I started to cool down. “Bingo” I thought to myself , thanks God, for not  leaving  me. I was creative again.

Avoid war - create peace.

Walk peace! Facing the threatening war against Iran peace activist Sabine Lichtenfels invites you to a year for the strengthening of peace forces. It begins in March with a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela/Spain, the pilgrimage site of the St. Jacobs Way.

From 15th of March 2005 on people and groups that are moved by peace are invited to accompany her on the last part of the pilgrimage. Meeting point: 15th of March, 12.00 o'clock in Leon at the main entrance of the cathedral. 

The pilgrimage ends on the 25th of March with an advisory counsel of the peace forces. Meeting at 12.00 o'clock in front of the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.

Further dates in the year: Summer University in Tamera from 25th of July - 4th of August, a meeting for committed people from all over the world. Tamera, in Portugal, is an experimental place for Peace Villages in areas of crisis.

The great finale is a public pilgrimage in the Middle East in Autumn with the performance of her theatre piece "We Refuse to be Enemies". Together with their cooperation partners from Israel and Palestine, Sabine Lichtenfels and her team have, for some years, been preparing the implementation of an international Peace Village there.

Further information and the original call by Sabine Lichtenfels can be found at: www.tamera.org/english/aktuelltext/SLpilgrimage05.html

Avoid war - create peace. "Walk peace"

A Year for the strengthening of peace forces

Start: Public pilgrimage from 15th of March 2005 on and advisory counsel in Santiago de Compostela/Spain on the 25th of March 2005

End: Pilgrimage through Israel and Palestine in Autumn 2005

Inspite of all diplomatic assurances: The US plans the next war, this time against Iran. Freedom and democracy should, according to George W. Bush, be taken to all parts of the Earth. In reality it is about free access to soil resource and about a free trade zone from Morocco to India. If necessary also with violence; then the streets in which children are still playing in will soon look like Falluja, the demolished town in Iraq. The fact that Iran and other countries are ruled by unbearable regimes, can not be a justification for a war; the opposition needs support, not bombs.

The peace movement can not allow itself to be hindered now by diplomatic lies. We can not take this news and continue as before. Worldwide, so many people are against war: And none of us should do anything? Yes, we can. If determined people would commit themselves fully to this aim, if we would act in an intelligent, strategic and common way, we could avoid war. There already exists many plans for action that could undermine the will for war and strengthen the peace forces.

Sabine Lichtenfels, peace activist and co-founder of Tamera (the experimental centre in Portugal for the implementation of Peace Villages in areas of crisis, commits her complete year to the motto: "Avoid war, create peace".

It starts with a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. "There is no path towards peace. Peace is the path", said Gandhi. For the last part of the pilgrimage people from all directions who are moved by peace are invited to take part.

Meeting: 15th of March at 12 o'clock in Leon at the main entrance of the cathedral. The pilgrimage reaches Santiago de Compostela on the 25th of Mach; there will be a manifestation and a peace meditation. Thereafter all people and eventual co-workers, also those who have not taken part in the pilgrimage, are invited to an advisory counsel.
Meeting on Good Friday at 12.00 o'clock in front of the main entrance of the cathedral of Santiago.

Further public peace activities this year will follow. The Summer University in Tamera from 25th of July - 4th of August, a meeting for committed people from all over the world is also planned.

The highlight of the year for the strengthening of the peace forces will be a pilgrimage in October/November in Israel/Palestine. Sabine Lichtenfels: "We choose the Middle East because here is one of the main acupuncture points, where the decision over war or peace on Earth is taken." With her cooperation partners she works for the forthcoming implementation of an international Peace Village here.

More information about the year of the peace forces and the original call by Sabine Lichtenfels you find at: www.tamera.org/english/aktuelltext/SLpilgrimage05.html

Lightsilver
24 February ­ 8 May 2005
Thursday ­ Sunday 12 - 6pm

Mark Dean      Peter Collis      Chiara Pirito      Chris Cornish      susan pui san lok     Mattias Härenstam      João Seguro      Zineb Sedira      Semiconductor
*Previews on consecutive Wednesdays until 8 May

1st preview: Mark Dean, Wednesday 23 February 6-9pm
Lightsilver
24 February ­ 8 May 2005
Thursday ­ Sunday 12 - 6pm
1st preview Wednesday 23 February 6-9pm
*Previews on consecutive Wednesdays until 8 May

Mark Dean    23 February  - 13 March
Peter Collis    2 March* - 20 March
Chiara Pirito    9 March* - 27 March
Chris Cornish    16 March* - 3 April
susan pui san lok    23 March* - 10 April
Mattias Härenstam    30 March* - 17 April
João Seguro    6 April* - 24 April
Zineb Sedira    13 April* - 1 May
Semiconductor    20 April*/ 27 April*/ 4 May* - 8 May

Lightsilver explores the physical, conceptual and historical impact of the landscape tradition on the ideas of contemporary artists.  An evolving montage of projections links the cinematic tradition of vista-making with the metaphoric potential of an age-old genre ­ the appearance of that portion of land which the eye can view at once.  Territory that has been conventionally explored through other mediums is here broadly extended to the moving image as a result of the digital revolution.

Nine diverse artists - Algerian, British, Chinese, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese - rotate new commissions across three spaces: each fresh work entering the sequence on one screen before proceeding to the next. The impact of every piece shifts with the new environment, as it forms a triptych of montaged space with other art-works within a rotating exhibition structure of eleven weeks.

Mark Dean launches the Lightsilver sequence with three new works on all three screens, preparing the way for an exploration of the ways in which we understand the term Œlandscape¹.  Award winning filmaker Peter Collis presents Tide shot with a 35mm slow motion camera on Boxing Day morning 2004, without  knowledge of the imminent Tsunami. A young Italian, Chiara Pirito, creates a Œliving¹ painting changing with the flow of time. Chris Cornish combines computer driven environments with the pathos of nature. susan pui san lok explores themes of nostalgia and aspiration through the reinterpretation of a high profile cultural anchor for displaced Chinese  migrants. Mattias Härenstam takes a camera in a pram on a walk through Berlin to discover a post-utopian feeling of lost collectivity. João Seguro reconsiders the notion of collective memory in a real life vignette of parochial Portugal. Zineb Sedira clandestinely films the Port of Algiers. Semiconductor present fictional documentaries, created through many processes of digital animation, of our physical world in flux: evolution driven by information technology.


Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
London
SE11 6AY
020 7582 6465
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

For further information, images and artists¹ CV  please call Julie Clark on 020 7582 6465.L

IRELAND: Culture Swap

From: Una Kealy <artswave@garterlane.ie>
Reply-To: <artswave@garterlane.ie>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:19:33 -0000
To: <louise@butlergallery.com>
Subject: Culture Swap, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Thursday March 3rd 2005

Dear Colleague,
 
You are cordially invited to attend Culture Swap, a day-long programme of events to include presentations to outline the role of INTERREG IIIA, Artswave and CCAT (Cultural Cooperation and Touring) in the area of cultural funding and opportunity.

INTERREG exists to promote cooperation and partnership between border countries of Europe and both Artswave and CCAT exist with the specific remit of encouraging cultural collaboration between the INTERREG counties of Ireland and Wales*.
 
Culture Swap is aimed at providing information on Artswave and CCAT and illustrating the past and potential benefits to artists and arts organisations of such support. The event will also provide an opportunity to meet potential partners. All too often arts organisations, and artists who are under great financial and time pressures, experience difficulty in meeting and making partnerships with their counterparts across the water. With this in mind Culture Swap incorporates a networking session whereby artists and art organisations of all disciplines can meet and present proposals to theatre / gallery / arts centre managers / exhibition curators / Arts Council representatives / funding partners / Artswave and CCAT representatives who will attend the conference from both Ireland and Wales. To enable as many Welsh delegates as possible to attend Culture Swap CCAT has invited potential delegates to apply for Go See funding to Rob Tiernan at rrt@aber.ac.uk or telephone 0044 1970621512. Potential Irish delegates should contact Zita Griffin on +353 1 6772255 as CCAT, Ireland may be in a position to subsidise their attendance. NOTE: applications to Go See ought to be submitted to Rob Tiernan by Friday 11th of February 2005.

Culture Swap also incorporates a panel discussion chaired by Phelim Donlon, Arts Management Consultant. Speakers include: Peter Tyndall, Chief Executive of the Arts Council of Wales; Seamus Crimmins, Arts Policy Director, Arts Council of Ireland; Mike Tooby, Director, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, and Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Journalist. This discussion is aimed at stimulating discussion between policy makers, cultural commentators, artists and cultural organisations on the future of Irish/Welsh cultural partnership.

The day will close with the launch of the most recent Artswave exhibition, a display of some of the finest in Irish and Welsh contemporary sculpture, entitled Crossing Over. We feel that we have created an agenda that is genuinely useful, interesting and full of opportunity and we would be delighted if you could attend. Please find a booking form, agenda, accommodation and travel details attached.

I would be grateful if you could forward this email to artists and art organizations who might be interested in attending.

Yours sincerely,

Una Kealy
Acting Artswave Director, Ireland
 
*The INTERREG counties of Ireland are: Meath; Dublin; Kildare; Wicklow; Carlow; Kilkenny; Wexford; Waterford and South Tipperary.
The INTERREG counties of Wales are: Carmarthanshire; Pembrokeshire; Ceredigion; Gwynedd; the Isle of Anglesey; Conwy; Yns Mon and Denbighsire.

BOOK REVIEWOF gERMAN bEST sELLER :

Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories and the Secrets of September 11.
by Mathias Bröckers

When the WTC and Pentagon were attacked out of a blue sky on Sept. 11, 2001, America and the world were appalled at the perfidy of the attack, and the evildoers and enemy were immediately made known: Osama bin Laden and his Islamic Al-Qaeda. George W. Bush declared a world war against "international terrorism", something which found little support beforehand.
Meanwhile, the evidence mounts that the US government was informed of the impending attack. Mathias Broeckers - science author, journalist and cultural editor for many years with "taz", Germany's alternative daily paper - felt misgivings from the outset about the mainstream media's chorus in unison on a single note. As if the media were all plugged into the same outlet, even the most reputable newspapers parrot the White House line on 9/11.

Seeking more data and more diversity of viewpoints, Broeckers took refuge in the Internet. There, with the help of a search engine, he made undreamt-of discoveries. He distilled them over the following months into a controversial documentary, which appeared in the on-line magazine "telepolis" and scored millions of hits. Greatly expanded in scope and depth, this work was brought out in book form by the German publishing house "2001."
Some of Broeckers' findings:
Sept. 11 is not only the date of a terrible mass murder, but also the crystallization point of bizarre inconsistencies, fantastical contradictions, discreet background moves and strategic secret operations. Has the world changed beyond recognition since Sept. 11? In fact, it had already changed before then.
A few examples: Grandfather Prescott Bush financed and supported Hitler, whom the US Army then helped to eliminate. As CIA boss and power behind Reagan's throne, Father George Bush armed Saddam Hussein. Once in office as president, he lured Saddam into the Gulf War. Son George W. Bush got the funds for his first oil company from the trustee of the same company whose scion Osama he now hunts: the Bin Laden Group. Florida governor Jeb Bush manipulated voting rolls to gain the crucial votes to swing the presidential election for his brother George W. Bush.
Osama bin Laden is a product of the US secret services, created for the terror campaign against the Soviet Union.
General Mahmud Ahmed, boss of the Pakistani secret service ISI, which cooperates closely with the CIA, had $100,000 transferred to the "terrorist pilot" Mohammed Atta in July 2001. From Sept. 4 to Sept. 15, 2001, he was on an official visit in the USA - for "discussions about the Taliban". On Sept. 11 he breakfasted on Capitol Hill with the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
Although the supreme command of the US Air Force was notified of the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners, violating the most restricted "no-fly zones", it took 75 minutes before interceptors were scrambled - too late.
Why did George W. Bush act as if he had first learnt of the attacks during his visit to an elementary school? When it turned out later he had already been informed an hour before, then why was no meeting held to handle the crisis?
Broeckers is painstakingly thorough, and the inconsistencies in the official story are numerous:
Why was no data of radio traffic or of the flight recorders ever published?
Why was wreckage of the Pennsylvania crash strewn for miles over the landscape? Was it shot down after all?
Why did the USA's top bin Laden investigator, John O'Neill, resign 8 weeks before the attack, in July 2001?
What direct business links exist between the Bush and bin Laden families?
What interests does vice-president Cheney's Halliburton company have in the trans-Afghan pipeline project?
Why were secret negotiations held in 2001 with the Taliban regime about building this pipeline?
Why were FBI investigations of suspicious flying students stopped by higher-ups in Washington?
Why did Bush and Cheney pressure opposition leader Daschle to prevent a thorough investigation of Sept. 11 by the US Congress?
Broeckers is an investigative conspiracy expert. With this book, he shows that the generally accepted official version of Sept. 11 is itself a well-thought out conspiracy theory, which points the blame to false leads. "Despite the biggest dragnet in history ", as Broeckers sums it up, "as much evidence has surfaced against the alleged chief planner Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda gang, as in the first hours after the attacks: practically none." Broeckers asks who the actual beneficiaries of the terrorist attacks are, and this question brings other notorious suspects into play. He does this not in order to encourage paranoia, but for the constructive gains we need from an objective scientific discipline in the field of conspiracy. "Without appropriate conspiracy theories, our highly complex and conspiracy-laden world can no longer be properly understood." Mathias Broeckers "Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and the Secrets of September 11." Includes an interview with the ex-undersecretary of state in the German Defense Ministry, Andreas von Buelow, and a lively discussion of the important role of conspiratorial behavior in nature and history. All of Broeckers' sources, and the complete table of contents are available online at www.zweitausendeins.de.