Name: Hard Work
Start: 2025-05-04T16:00:00+01:00
Location: RYANS N16

Hard Work #20
Music, Poetry & Performance
Ellie Bradford
Johan de Wit
Ivor Kallin
Sharon Kivland
The Enchanted Surgery
£5 cash or pay what you can
"We'll be downstairs if you need us, and we'll be downstairs even if you don't need us" (I did not agree to this quote, Ed)
THE ENCHANTED SURGERY
In the autumn of 2023 a group of artists spontaneously assembled in an abandoned mansion to revive an ancient ritual of stupendous importance: the Enchanted Surgery. Their fates are now bound together to the purpose of performing theatrical acts of heretical ludicrousness. They are known as the Enchanted Family.
https://www.instagram.com/enchantedfamilyofficial
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553941591242
SHARON KIVLAND
Sharon Kivland is an artist and writer, an editor and publisher. Her novel Abécédaire was published by Moist Books in 2022, and its counterpart Almanach: A Year in the French Revolutionary by Grand Iota in 2025. Later this year Tenement Press will publish Envois. The Complete Correspondence from Jacques Lacan to Sharon Kivland (1976 to 1981), and a companion work, a novel, Her Discourse will release with JOAN.
IVOR KALLIN
I play electric violin with Electrio, bass with the Glowering Figs and viola with the London Improvisers Orchestra. When I do voice stuff I turn into Ambrosia Rasputin, as featured weekly on the wireless: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show/
JOHAN DE WIT
Johan de Wit was born in Colijnsplaat in the Netherlands. He came to this country in 1977 and lives in Putney.
His publications include:
Rose Poems 1986 Actual Size;
Illusions 1989 Writers Forum;
Hippototescopo 2000 West House Books;
Up To You Munro 2008 Veer Books;
No Hand Signals 2009 Veer Books
Gero Nimo 2011 Reality Street;
Kenya (together with Antony John and Wayne Clements) 2016 Veer Books;
Bakelite Torn From Salvage Claims 2023 The Loxham Press;
plus several pamphlets from various presses.
ELLIE BRADFORD
My work is all about recovering from BPD, grappling with the feeling of being an outsider in society, yet somehow finding an unexpected sense of gratitude in the chaos. I live in London and I’m a visual artist making video works, drawings and performances and I am the co-creator of a show called ‘Cats Of Tottenham’ that I make with Will Stuart, which is a lo-fi web series online.