NAVIGATORS Art has cancelled tonight’s show, Opened Ground, A Creative Tribute To Seamus Heaney, at The Basement, City Screen Picturehouse, York.
“Sudden and very unfortunate circumstances beyond our control” have put paid to the event devised and curated by York St John University student and published poet Oliver Lewis.
Lewis had lined up a bill featuring Mexborough love poet Ian Parks, folk duo Where The Deer Go and York-based Irish poet and teacher Aimée Donnell, whose first collection, We Are All Creatures Of Struggle, was published by Olympia, on March 13.
Set to take part too were White Sail’s Jane Stockdale, setting Heaney poems to music, and York mythical/mystical duo Adderstone, performing a condensed version of Sweeney, their interpretation of Heaney’s work in music and song. Lewis himself was to have performed with musician Christian Bell in a collaboration premiering new works.