Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minelli
This is a running list of recent, current and upcoming events featuring my work.
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If you want to keep up to speed with what's happening, please join the email list. You'll get sporadic updates, about three or four times a year
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THE (POSSIBLY FIRST EVER) HALF SONNETHON — IN AID OF ARTS FOR DEMENTIA
Tuesday 23rd April 2024; 7:30 PM Kensington Unitarians Essex Church 112 Palace Gardens Notting HIll Gate London W8 4RT And as live webcast online at sonnetcast.com |
Charity event to mark Shakespeare Day:
In what may be a first of its kind, Sebastian Michael is challenging himself to recite the first 77 of William Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets by heart to a live audience, raising money for Arts for Dementia. details |
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SOME SONNETS AND A BIT OF BACH
Monday 14th to Saturday 26th August 2023; 11:30 AM (No performance Sunday 20th August) The Ivy Greenside @ Infirmary Street Edinburgh |
Spoken word performance as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023
What do Shakespeare and JS Bach have in common? Sebastian Michael, author of The Sonneteer and SONNETCAST podcaster, is trying to find out, bringing you glorious poetry and connecting it—somewhat adventurously—to a fugue... details |
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JASS
Saturday 15th May 2021; 13:o0 BST ONLINE |
Public Table Read of a new play in development by Sebastian Michael
CAST Prim: Tiggy Bayley Melody: Marcus J Foreman Xavier: Petri Stefanescu Ewan: Alex Granville TomTom: Amy Leis The Voice of the Corporation: Tiers One, Two, and Four: Eleanor Healing details |
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IN PRAISE OF FOLLY
Thursday 14th November 2019; 21:o0 Boeckl Saal TU Wien 13 Karlsplatz 1040 Wien |
Sophistication Conference #3: Copia and Copiousness. – Circuitous Articulations that Matter
Sebastian Michael reads excerpts from In Praise of Folly by Erasmus of Rotterdam. details |
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DOPPELGÄNGER
Thursday 13th June 2019; 19:30 Thursday 27th June 2019; 19:30 Galerie Spitzer im Odeon Theater Taborstrasse 10 1020 Wien |
Performance as Part of Posthuman Flux (Exhibition and Discourse)
In cooperation with Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces (H.A.U.S.) devised by Oliver Schürer based on Menschen sind Maschinen der Engel (Human Beings Are the Machines of Angels) by Jean Paul. Inspired by Japanese Bunraku theatre: two robots and a dancer on stage. Music/sound. Text translated and recited by Sebastian Michael. (Performance in English) details |
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DOPPELGÄNGER
Friday 31st May 2019; 17:00 & 18:00 Saturday 1st June 2019; 13:00 & 14:00 Volkstheater Arthur-Schnitzlerplatz 1 1070 Wien |
Performance – #digitalnatives19 Festival
In cooperation with Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces (H.A.U.S.) devised by Oliver Schürer based on Menschen sind Maschinen der Engel (Human Beings Are the Machines of Angels) by Jean Paul. Inspired by Japanese Bunraku theatre: two robots and a dancer on stage. Music/sound. Text translated and recited by Sebastian Michael. (Performance in English) details |
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ENCOMIA OF LOVE –
THREE AND A HALF ORATIONS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM BY PLATO Thursday 1st November 2018; 19:30 Boeckl Saal TU Wien 13 Karlsplatz 1040 Wien |
Conference – Architekturtheorietage 2018, Opening Event
Sebastian Michael reads from Plato's Symposium Phaedrus Aristophanes Agathon The dialogue between Socrates and Agathon and the speech of Diotima of Mantinea from the oration by Socrates watch video |
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ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN
Thursday 7th December 2017; 19:00 Kuppelsaal TU Wien 13 Karlsplatz 1040 Wien |
Conference – Sophistication: Rhetorical, Geometrical and Computational Articulation
The Complete Text of De hominis dignitate by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, in the English translation by Charles Glenn Wallis Edited and read by Sebastian Michael details |
Banner image: Stephen Schreiber as Angel Alphon and James Messer as Angel Raoul in Top Story at The Old Vic Tunnels, 2013; photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou.