One-on-One with Sjón
One-on-One with Sjón
Saturday, October 18, 2014 • 7-8pm
Theatre Junction Grand – Flanagan Theatre
Tickets: $25
$22 seniors, students and Friends of CJSW
Already with sold out events in Vancouver on his Canadian tour from Iceland, Calgary audiences won’t want to miss Sjón. His artistic practice and body of work crosses a vast landscape—from poetry, novels and plays to librettos, lyrics for Björk, visual art and picture books for children.
Sjón presents his latest book, Whispering Muse, which has won every literature prize there is in Iceland.
The Björk retrospective, in collaboration with SJÓN, opens at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in March 2015.
Sjón was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and his first poetry collection, Sýnir (Visions), was published at the tender age of 15. Since then, he has released numerous poetry collections and seven novels, which have been translated into 30 languages. Sjón has frequently worked with Björk, leading to an Oscar nomination for the lyrics in the Lars von Trier movie Dancer in the Dark.
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