Hi there

At 2pm on Sunday 26th October, I'll be performing the most ambitious thing I've ever written at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry as part of both Manchester Literature Festival and The Big Science Read.

The twenty minute piece was originally commissioned for the Worktech07 event held at The British Library in London last November.  Entitled, "Zeroes and Ones" it has a science and computing related theme throughout and begins with The Big Bang, before engaging the audience through some 15 billion years of cosmology, physics, evolution, photosynthesis, human genome, science vs religion, etc through to popular culture, modern technology, global inequality and environmental concerns before posing some of the biggest questions of our time. There's a few laughs along the way and ultimately it's accessible and cautionary, entertaining and uplifting.

The full text and audio streaming can be found at http://www.unwired.eu.com/WT07review.html - I'd recommend the audio version, click on my name in the audio player and allow a moment for it to stream. 

People seemed to like it:

"Very, very clever." John DeLucy, The British Library

" Tony Walsh – truly the Gods' Pollocks of the spoken word!" Jeremy Myerson, The Royal College of Art

"…undoubted highlight of an excellent event…stunned audience…essential reading…" Joanna Bawa, usabilitynews.com. Onlin review at http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4462.asp

"….fabulous feedback…brave and ambitious…." Philip Ross of Unwired Ventures who commissioned the piece

"…Magnum Opus…a work of genius" writeoutloud.net news feature

Tickets are priced at £5 and my piece follows "It Looks Like You're Writing A Letter" by the wonderful Tim Clare and Ross Sutherland.

Further details at http://manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/2008-festival-programme/26th-october/it-looks-like-youre-writing-a-letter

I'd love it if you came along.

Cheers

Tony