Performance

Venue	Southbank Centre
	Also: Royal Festival Hall, RFH, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Tuff Nutt Jazz Club
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	9th November 2005
To	9th November 2005
When	19:45
Southbank Centre (V423)
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Remember Saro-Wiwa

Work:: Remember Saro-Wiwa (S470401375)

Nobel prize winner Wole Soyinka, poet Alice Oswald, jazz musician Byron Wallen and performance poet Lemn Sissay join together to celebrate the life and work of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.This distinguished bill of artists all feel an affinity with Saro-Wiwa's life-work. In this unique event, fellow Nigerian Wole Soyinka reads poems in his honour; Alice Oswald reads from Woods etc, her third collection of poems; Byron Wallen plays trumpet, flugelhorn and shells, while Lemn Sissay is our MC for the night. Join us for this special celebration!

Production:: (T0)

Listing:: L01077674524

Purcell Room

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Purcell Room

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