Featuring Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Maggie O’Sullivan, Phil Minton and Ben Gwilliam & Phil Davenport, Sarah Sander, and Sarah Boothroyd

@ The Green Room, Manchester

Friday 15 April 2011

In a pre-festival partnership event with the Green Room, Manchester, the Text Festival presents an evening of virtuoso vocal performance and groundbreaking sound art. Eiríkur Örn...

Featuring Exhibition openings and performances

@ Bury ArtGallery& Museum

Saturday 30th April 2011 / 11.00am

A celebration of visual poetry, sound, video and conceptual art with three Festival exhibitions and performances by international language artists from North America and Europe. New works,...

@Bury ParishChurch          

Saturday 30th April 2011 / 4.00 pm

American poet Ron Silliman returns for his second Text Festival. A major figure in international post-avant poetry, since 1974, Silliman has been working on a single poem, the first major section...

Featuring Christian Bök (CAN), Holly Pester (UK), Sarah Boothroyd (CAN), Eduard Escoffet (SP), Bruno Bresani (BRA) - others to be confirmed

@ The Met Arts Centre

30th April 2011 / 7.30pm

A dramatically constructed evening of experimental sound-poetry and language featuring challenging sound interventions and remarkable vocal performers including the first UK performance by the remarkable...

@ Bury ArtGallery& Museum

Sunday 1ST May 2011/ 11.00am

During his second World War internment in the UK, leading figure of the Dada movement, Kurt Schwitters spent a short time in Bury. While using Dada techniques of cutting up newspapers, magazines...

Featuring Geraldine Monk (UK), Adeena Karasick (USA), bill bissett (CAN), Iris Garrelf (UK)

@ The Met Arts Centre

3rd June 2011 / 7.30pm

Continuing the Festival’s unique mix of sound and poetry with an evening:  Adeena Karasick is a poet, media-artist and the award-winning author of seven books of poetry and poetic...