Workshop on Improvisation and Comedy: Andy Hamilton Session 1 / 2 (NFOJAiM 2025)
Schedule
Fri Oct 03 2025 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Lit & Phil | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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Workshop on Improvisation and Comedy: Andy Hamilton (Session 1 / 2) The Literary and Philosophical Society (The Joseph Swan Room)
Friday 3rd October 2025
Doors: 10.45am (Workshop Starts 11.00am - 5.00pm)
This event is not ticketed, just arrive on the day.
Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
This concert is presented by Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with The Literary and Philosophical Society and Andy Hamilton / British Society of Aesthetics
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Workshop on Improvisation and Comedy: Andy Hamilton
The theme of this year’s two day workshop with Andy Hamilton is improvisation in music and comedy – how far does improv play a role in these contrasting forms? Talks are by musicians playing at the festival, including Tony Buck, Alister Spence, Martin Mayes, Raymond MacDonald and George Burt, and by academics and other authorities, with more to be announced.
There will also be talks on related topics.
Organised by Andy Hamilton, funded by British Society of Aesthetics.
Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy, and also History and Aesthetics of Jazz, at Durham University, UK. During his time at Durham he has also been Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, Perth, and has taught music aesthetics at Hong Kong University.
Andy specialises in aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, J.S. Mill and Wittgenstein. Amongst others his books include ‘Pianos Toys Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’, he is also working on a book of conversations with Australian improvising trio
The Necks.
Andy is a long-standing contributor to "The Wire", "Jazz Journal" and "International Piano" magazines, interviewing and writing features on jazz and classical musicians and composers such as Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Elliott Carter, Kaija Saariaho and Christian Wolff. He is also a jazz pianist, and has adopted the persona Conservative Britartist Hamilton, whose activities satirise the contemporary artworld.
www.andyhamilton.org
The Literary and Philosophical Society
The Literary and Philosophical Society, 23 Westgate Road, NE1 1SE
0191 232 0192 / [email protected]
www.litandphil.org.uk
The Literary and Philosophical Society
Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult.
Accessibility: The Loftus Room and Joseph Swan Room at The Lit and Phil are partly accessible. There is a lift at the venue entrance for wheelchair users to access the building and performance space, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building.
The festival has permissions for visiting wheelchair users to access toilets located on the ground floor in Sleeperz Hotel which is just a few doors down (16 ft) to the right of the Lit and Phil as you exit the building.
Accessible toilets are also available at 5 Quarter Cafe Bar to the left as you exit the building.
The Private Members Library is not a wheelchair accessible space and is preceded by a small number of stairs.
Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Central Station which is located less than 300 ft from the venue (approximately 2 minutes walk).
There is limited street parking, the closest car park is at Central Station
(Charges may apply).
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Where is it happening?
The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
