Poet in Huddersfield raising funds for a spoken word film

How To Starve An Artist is a solo spoken word show by award-winning Canadian poet Rose Condo. The live show toured to Edinburgh, Huddersfield and Blackpool in 2016, and upcoming dates are planned for Lancaster, York, Durham and the 2017 Winnipeg Fringe Festival in Canada. The show features Rose energetically performing a series of poems as she prepares and serves food to her audience, whilst engaging them in ideas about how to be more creatively nourished.

Rose is teaming up with independent media company Fish90 Productions to create a film version of the live show. The film will be shot across three locations in England and premiered at a special invited screening in Autumn 2017. A crowdfunding campaign has recently been launched to raise the money needed, and contributions have been coming in from across the UK as well as Canada and Australia. The deadline for contributions is the end of February, by which time the team hopes to have raised enough funds to complete the project.

The film will be directed by Colin Davies. Colin was born in Brighton and now lives and works in Blackpool. He is an author, designer, performance poet and film director. The film will be shot by Manchester-based filmmaker, Charles Leek. In 2016 Colin and Charles teamed up to make a short film with Doctor Who actor Colin Baker entitled When I Grow Up (watch the film at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgetjNdEk8I). The poem was written and directed by Davies and shot and edited by Leek. This creative team is very excited to work with Rose Condo on How To Starve An Artist, the film.

Rose Condo is a writer, performer and spoken word poet from Canada. Currently based in Huddersfield, Rose has won poetry slams in Manchester, Newcastle, York, Edinburgh and Crewe, and recently competed in Dublin’s Lingo Spoken Word Festival Slam and at the Hammer & Tongue National Slam at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Rose is regularly invited to perform at gigs and festivals across the UK.

For more information, please visit www.howtostarveanartist.org

For more information visit http://www.howtostarveanartist.org/