To mark CHEERIO’s launch and the publication of BIG SNAKE LITTLE SNAKE by DBC Pierre, Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a programme of events accompanying 'CHEERIO: 48 Hours with Francis Bacon'. CHEERIO’s name is a nod to Bacon’s favourite drinking toast, and the programme will feature an eclectic mix of readings, exhibits and short films designed to intrigue, disturb and thrill.
Wednesday 27th April, 1:30-2pm
A free lunchtime live poetry session in collaboration with The White Review and Offord Road Books, featuring young poets including A. K. Blakemore, Sarah Fletcher and Niall McDevitt.
Wednesday 27th April, 6:45pm (doors 6:15pm)
A ticketed in-conversation between novelist David Keenan and DBC Pierre.
Thursday 28th April, 6:45pm (doors 6:15pm)
A ticketed in-conversation between acclaimed journalist, broadcaster and novelist Dolly Alderton and curator James Birch about love, art, time and place, to mark the publication of his memoir BACON IN MOSCOW: an account of Birch’s audacious quest to mount the ground-breaking Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow in 1988, when he found himself not only the subject of a honey-trap, but also the focus of the KGB and a picaresque and shady cast of officials, attachés and politicians.