3 May 2023 - making of a collaborative, durational piece with Clare Whistler, responding to fifteen photographs of fallen leaves over fifteen hours in the presence of a young oak tree.
15/16th June 2023 - live editing and read-through performances at Elspeth Owen's Open Studios, The Pavilion, Granchester.
25/26th Nov 2023, book launch and four performances with the oak tree at Elspeth's.
Tour kicks off in 2024:6 Jan with Clare's Oak - Ashburnham, Sussex
21 March with Churchill's oak at Churchill College, Cambridge, thank you Bhanu Kapil
22 March welcoming a sapling donated by Windsor Great Park into Royal Holloway's gardens as part of an Eco-Symposium
15/16 June with Nancy's Oak and saplings - Norfolk, thank you Rachel Goodman
7 July for the venerable oak by the lake, private event.
21 Sept with Suffragette Oak, Kelvingrove - Glasgow
Tour continues 2025....
3 May with a favourite oak and its ghost oak partner, Greenwich Park, London, thank you Victoria
23 May with a lightning-struck Sudbourne oak, thank you Clare Best
16 June with a jazzy oak in Bute Park, Cardiff, thank you Hilary Watson
9 Aug for a favourite 'custard tree' oak near Chichester, private event.
2 Nov for a spooky sunset oak in Sussex, owls getting so involved
If you have a favourite Oak Tree you'd like us to bring our 26 minute performance to, please get in touch : somethinglightwritten at gmail dot com
June 22nd-26th 2022https://www.mattieocallaghan.com/curatorial-projects/immersions
cwpoetics experimental poetics collaboration, p0_EM, 2017/18. Shortlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize (Kings College London).