Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza at Greenwich National Maritime Museum
Britain’s craving for chinoiserie in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in a trade imbalance that threatened to empty the treasury. To pay for the tea, silks, spices and porcelain we liked so much,...
View ArticleLIVE STREAM The Steampunk Opium Wars
Get ready from 6.30pm on Thursday 16th February because we have a live stream of the show from the National Maritime Museum. Show kicks off at 6.45pm. It’ll be just like you were there. Click on these...
View ArticlePhotos of The Steampunk Opium Wars
The first photos in from The Steampunk Opium Wars staged Thursday 16th February 2012 to almost 300 people at the National Maritime Museum. Photographs by Jan Jefferies taken on my Lumix TZ20 camera...
View ArticleChina In Britain: Anna and Charles Shaar Murray on the bill
I’m performing this afternoon at the China In Britain event at Westminster University, 4.45pm. It’s a talk with performance extracts from my shows and a bit of poetry. The wonderful Charles Shaar...
View ArticleThe Steampunk Opium Wars at the St Ives Festival, Part 1
Here’s the first half of The Steampunk Opium Wars which we took down to the St Ives Arts Festival to play to a packed house at the Arts Theatre on Tuesday 18th September. We did it as a new concept —...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day: REACHING FOR MY GNU free download from Amazon
If all goes well on the technical side of things, to mark National Poetry Day, I’m making my “brilliant and dangerous” poetry collection — Reaching for my Gnu — available as a free download from...
View ArticleLive at Brioche NW6: Anna Chen and Charles Shaar Murray 29 October
Locally Sourced Productions Presents an evening with writer, comic and broadcaster Anna Chen reading from her “brilliant and dangerous” poetry collection REACHING FOR MY GNU on Monday 29th October....
View ArticleCredit Crunch Suicide: May Day poetry
Had a lovely gig last week at the Morning Star‘s May Day celebrations in Kilburn, London. Also playing, singer songwriter Sean Taylor, a wonderful guitarist. Q Magazine called him, “A bluesey...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz: May Day poetry from Anna Chen
Anna Chen’s first public reading of her poem “Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz”, written on the day news broke that the former prime minister had died … at the Ritz! Thanks to Charles Shaar Murray...
View ArticleI am Rich and You are Poor: lines on dead Chinese cocklepickers and their...
Anna Chen reads her poem, “I am Rich and You are Poor: lines on dead Chinese cocklepickers and their rich benefactors” about the 21 people who died at Morecambe Bay in 2004. Performed at the Morning...
View ArticleAnna Chen’s “Poetry Against the Cuts” workshop week comencing 7 October
I’m delighted to be giving my “Poetry Against the Cuts” class at The Orwell Prize Wigan Pier Workshops in the week commencing 7 October. Paul Anderson is also on the bill giving a talk on the history...
View ArticleCharles Shaar Murray’s Hothouse Journalism writing course returns to Camden...
Or learn how to pimp your prose. Legendary author and journalist Charles Shaar Murray’s excellent Hothouse Project “Journalism as Art and Craft” writing classes return to north London in September for...
View ArticleMadam Miaow’s Culture Lounge returns to the St Ives Arts Festival 2013
Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge returns to the St Ives Arts Festival following last year’s The Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza that had a cast of thousands and played to a capacity audience of dozens....
View ArticleAnna’s Resonance 104.4FM series starts 15th October
I read some pert, perky and pertinent poetry at last night’s pre-The Fu Manchu Complex public debate at the Oval House Theatre. The main event in the evening, a satire by actor Daniel York who was at...
View ArticleMadam Miaow’s Culture Lounge launched on Resonance FM
Last night’s exciting launch programme of my new Resonance FM radio series — Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge — is now available to listen online. Share a cultural first and check it out here. “Oh Other...
View ArticleAnna Chen wins at the Farrago Poetry Zoo Awards 2013
I’m delighted to report that I won the annual Farrago Poetry Zoo Award for Best Performance by a London Poet in 2013 the other week on 30th January. Held at the RADA Café in Malet Street, the...
View ArticleAnna’s poetry gig at YW8 launch, The Proud Archivist, Saturday 26 April
I am performing at the YW8 launch at The Proud Archivist in east London tomorrow. I’ll be doing some of the funnier poetry rather than the political stuff. It’s a new arts centre on the Regents Canal...
View ArticleAnna Chen’s Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and poetry comes to Liverpool...
Anna Chen gives her Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and reads poetry at the International Festival of Business China Day launching ‘Opera for Chinatown’ in Liverpool Really looking forward to doing...
View ArticleAnna Chen’s Chinese Diaspora talk and poetry reading at Liverpool’s...
A reminder about Liverpool tomorrow. I’m looking forward to giving my China Diaspora in Britain talk plus poetry from Reaching for my Gnu at the Il Forno Restaurant in Duke Street, Liverpool, tomorrow...
View ArticleMore or Less Asian? Stereotypes in Literature: talk at Asia House 12th Nov 2014
The cuddly liberal Guardian thought this illustration was OK. The original photo of the squirrel before the Guardian’s Goebbels squad got on the job. I’m on a panel next Wednesday at Asia House for a...
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