EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers' Indoor Summer Beach Poetry Party

Friday, 11th January, 2013, 7-11pm, FREE

The Forest Café,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh

We are holding a beach party in January, because we can. There will be top spoken word acts, really stupid party games, and as much summer heat as we can summon. Featuring:

Indoor sandpit

Paddling pool rubber duck racing

Sangria sangria sangria (you bring the wine, we bring the mix)

Poetry limbo

Surprise spoken word sets from special guests

Dancing to all the top summer hits (1965-1995)

All the silliness we can muster

See inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details, or find us on 

Twitter @InkyFingersEdin and facebook.com/InkyFingersEdinburgh.

BYOB. BYOPoetry.

BRIGHTON: Waterloo Press Christmas Party

Sunday, December 18^th, 2011, 6.30pm for 7pm start, to 10pm, £5/£4 concessions

Iambic Arts Theatre 

Regent Street,

Brighton

(just north of the Komedia rear entrance)

Waterloo Press joyfully invites you to its second annual Christmas Party, celebrating another abundant year at the Press, with readings by WP poets new and old, far and near:

Clare Best

Fawzia Kane

Alan Morrison

Mario Petrucci

& (ghost of Christmas travel permitting)

David Pollard

PLUS

music from WP's resident starry fiddler Annie Kerr

Open Mic

(five spots only – come early to book)

20% off all 2011 WP titles

&

Fawzia's Rum Punch!

The WP elves look forward to seeing you there!

BRIGHTON: Waterloo Press Christmas Party

Sunday, December 18^th, 2011, 6.30pm for 7pm start, to 10pm, £5/£4 concessions

Iambic Arts Theatre 

Regent Street,

Brighton

(just north of the Komedia rear entrance)

Waterloo Press joyfully invites you to its second annual Christmas Party, celebrating another abundant year at the Press, with readings by WP poets new and old, far and near:

Clare Best

Fawzia Kane

Alan Morrison

Mario Petrucci

& (ghost of Christmas travel permitting)

David Pollard

PLUS

music from WP's resident starry fiddler Annie Kerr

Open Mic

(five spots only – come early to book)

20% off all 2011 WP titles

&

Fawzia's Rum Punch!

The WP elves look forward to seeing you there!

EDINBURGH: The Nightmare Before the Office Christmas Party

Thursday, 15th December, 2011, 8pm til late
The Third Door,
46-47 Lothian Street,
EH1 1HB

Inky Fingers, Edinburgh's grassroots events series for writers and performers, is putting on a spectacular literary office party. Come in your awful bowties and desperate tinsel to enjoy festive and unfestive performances from top local writers, photocopier destruction, an extraordinary literary secret santa, a competition for the worst christmas cracker joke, and much else besides. Grotesque, glorious, and packed to the gunnels with amazing words: be there!

Inky Fingers is an Edinburgh-based events series for writers and performers, running workshops, open mics, and special literary events. Find out more at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com, on Facebook, or on Twitter @InkyFingersEdin.

Word at Bambu in Leicester: Benefit Party this Friday

WORD! - Leicester's longest-running spoken word night - is having a benefit party!

Friday 29th February, 9pm - 1am
Bambu Bar, Welford Rd, Leicester
Entrance: £2 - £5

Money raised will help keep entry free each month - and help us to keep programming great main acts for you all. The Benefit will take place this Friday (29th February) starting at 9pm and going till 1am. It will feature an amazing line-up. As well as djing from the likes of Ajay, Disebeats, Carol Leeming and Apocraphe there will be live music from Apocraphe himself - his last gig in the UK for at least a year, so also an opportunity to come say goodbye.

Apoc will be showcasing some exclusive tracks from his and Disebeats'
forthcoming album 'Prison Earth'. There will also be words from UK
hiphop legend Cappo, National Freestyle Champion 2000 - Troy Scalpels,
plus singing from, amongst others, the world-famous diva Carol Leeming.
So, overall expect an incredible night for as much or as
little as you can afford to give! (£2-£5 at the entrants discretion)

Please do come down and support this long running and unique night!
See you there!
WORD!
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Bah Humbug! with special guests and floor spots for YOU

Bah Humbug!

All-day Christmas poetry/spoken word special
Penned in the Margins
Saturday, December 15, 2007
12:00am - 11:00pm
The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London

Email: info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk

Bah Humbug! is a Christmas party to remember. Throughout the day and on all three floors of the Betsey Trotwood there will be readings and performances by some of London’s top poets, comedians, musicians and spoken word artists.

Lazy Gramophone will be on hand with face-painting and seasonal fun. Tim Wells will be masquerading as Santa Claus. The lovely people from Legend Press, Pen Pusher, Succour and Trespass Magazine will sell their wares. There will be an open mic. There will be fairy lights. There may be mince pies. Failing that, there will be steak and kidney pies.

And because it’s Christmas all profits will go to charity.

We’ve put this together to celebrate what has been a breakthrough year for the poetry and spoken word scene. So if you’ve been part of the ‘revolution’ (that’s The Times, not us), or if you fancy dipping your toe into London’s most exciting underground arts scene, Bah Humbug! is for you.

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Zena Edwards, Simon Munnery, Generation Txt, Tim Wells, Roddy Lumsden, Niall O'Sullivan, Ross Sutherland, D'Archetypes, Ventriloquist & Tongue Fu Band, Excentral Tempest, Yap and more tba!

Recommended donation £5
Midday til closing time

The Twelve Days of Christmas

The 12 Days of Christmas

36 poets read commissioned Xmas poems
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
7:00pm - 11:00pm
The Miller of Mansfield, 96 Snowsfields Road (nr London Bridge), London

36 London poets have been asked to write a new poem based on the gifts in the famous song. This will function as the backdrop for seasonal drinks for the thirsty bards of the smoke. Readings start 8pm sharp, will be in three half hour sets and will end by 10, but come along at 7 for drinks and gossip.

£5 fee for non-participants.

Lazy Birds Xmas Bash: Thursday 13th December, Whitechapel

The Lazy Birds Christmas Bash
Thursday 13th December
The Whitechapel Gallery
7.30pm
FREE ENTRY