'EXPOSED': Apples & Snakes National Tour Dates

‘Exposed’ - Apples & Snakes National Tour

Performance poetry by David J, Stickman, Polarbear, Yusra Warsama and Claire Williamson.

Apples & Snakes has commissioned five artists from five regional areas to each compose a twelve minute piece on the theme of ‘exposed’. They explore issues of political, personal and environmental exposure through performance styles from hip hop through free verse to the luxuriantly lyrical. Each performance will feature the five commissioned artists as well as a local host and guest performer, unique to each venue. The artistic director is Lucy English, Bristol’s Queen of Slam.

EXPOSED is the company’s most ambitious collaborative project to date with twenty performances, sixteen partner organisations and five touring artists. This makes it the biggest national poetry tour ever programmed.

NATIONAL LISTINGS (split in to 4 regional areas – East Midlands, South West, London and the South East, North West)

EAST MIDLANDS
venue: The Y, 7 East ST, Leicester, LE1 6EY

venue: Lincoln Drill Hall
date: 27/09/06
time: 20:00
website: www.lincolndrillhall.com
box office: 01522 873 894
tickets: £5
guest acts: Guy Hudson and Dave Wright

venue: Canal House Bar, Canal Street, Nottingham, NG1 7GB ?
date: 02/10/06
time: 20:00
box office: On door
tickets: £5 / £4
guest acts: Michelle ‘The Mother’ Hubbard and Tony Hendricks


SOUTH WEST
venue: Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8HQ
date: 14/09/2006
time: 20:00
website: www.plough-arts.org
box office: 01805 622 552
tickets: £6.50 / £5.50 (£5 Plough supporters)
guest acts: Colin Shaddick and Frances Thompson

venue: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA
date: 15/09/06
time: 20:00
website: www.poetrycan.co.uk
box office: 0117 917 2300
tickets: £5
guest acts: Peter Hunter and Sara-Jane Arbury

venue: The Merlin Theatre, Bath Road, Frome, BA11 2HG
date: 16/09/2006
time: 19:45
website: www.merlintheatre.co.uk
box office: 01373 465 949
tickets: £6
guest acts: Elvis McGonagall and Crysse Morrison
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LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST
venue: The Royal Hotel Ballroom, 1 High Street, Southend, SS1 1JE
date: 24/09/2006
time: 19:00
website: www.sundownmultimedia.co.uk
box office: On door
tickets: £3
guest acts: Jo Overfield, Cherryl Scott and Simon Blackman

venue: Cherry Jam, 58 Porchester Road, London, W2
date: 28/09/2006
time: Doors open at 7pm
website: www.bookslam.com
box office: On door
tickets: £2 before 8pm then £5
host: Patrick Neate (guest poet tbc.)

venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1
date: 05/10/2006
time: 19:00
website: www.whitechapel.org ?
tickets: FREE
guest acts: Luke Wright and Byron Vincent

venue: The Vaults, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, OX1 4AH
date: 07/10/2006
time: 20:00
website: www.hammerandtongue.org
box office: On door
tickets: £6 / £4
guest acts: Steve Larkin and Lizzie Mac


NORTH WEST
venue: The Yorkshire House, Parliament Street, Lancaster, LA1 1DB
date: 20/10/06
time: 20:30
website: www.spotlightlancaster.co.uk
tickets: £3 / £2
compere: Ron Baker (guest poet tbc.)

venue: Bickerton Village Hall, Broxton, Chester, CH3 6ER
date: 21/10/06
time: ?19:30
box office: 01829 720 440 (contact Nigel Briers)
tickets: £6
guest acts: Harry Owen and John Lindley

venue: Goostrey Village Hall, Goostrey nr. Holmes Chapel, Main Road, CW4 8PE
date: 26/10/06
time: ?19:30
box office:01477 544 467 (contact Janet Ollier)
tickets: £3.50
guest acts: John Lindley and Harry Owen

venue: Brewery Arts Centre, 122A Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE
date: 27/10/06
time: 20:00
website: www.breweryarts.co.uk
tickets: £5
guest acts: Marvin Cheeseman and Gill Hands (tbc)

venue: Chester University Campus, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 48J
date: 28/10/06
time: 19:30
box office: 01244 602 898 (contact Anne Sherman)
tickets: £5
guest acts: Harry Owen and John Lindley

venue: Contact Theatre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M15 6JA
date: 31/10/06
time: 19:30
website: www.contact-theatre.org
tickets: £6 / £4
guest acts: Cheryl Martin and Martin Stannage

venue: Lanternhouse, The Ellers, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0AA
date: 18/11/06
time: 19:30
website: www.lanternhouse.org
tickets: £4 / £3
guest acts: Ann Wilson and guest poets Jo Stoney, Ross Baxter, Jennifer Copley and Gill Nicholson