LONDON: I'm Sorry I Haven't Haiku

Tuesday, November 12th & 26th, 2013, 7.30pm, £5
Colonel Fawcett Pub
1 Randolph Street,
London NW1 0SS
Nearest tube: Camden Town/Camden Road
Contact: Michelle Madsen 07514 296242, madsen.michelle@gmail.com

Two teams. Four rounds. Seventeen syllables. It's comedy and poetry dragged through a dictionary backwards. And it's short, very short. 

Hosted and devised by Michelle Madsen

SHEFFIELD: We Talk Of Pride And Prejudice

Friday, October 18th, 2013, 7.30pm, £5/£4

Sheffield Students’ Union,

Western Bank,

Sheffield

S10 2TG

http://www.arenaticketshop.co.uk/whats-on/we-talk-of-pride-and-prejudice–the-foundry/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/338019106333217/

At the event a talented group of local writers aged 15-21 share a stage with leading poets Jean ’Binta’ Breeze MBE, Mark Gwynne Jones and Sureshot and all offer their own personal take on the theme of Pride and Prejudice. This show offers playful, witty, soulful and provocative responses to the Jane Austen novel and the book’s central themes in its bicentenary year.

It is part of a new intergenerational project for local elders groups and young writers to engage them in literature and sharing stories.

Developed by Renaissance One in partnership with Writing Yorkshire, in collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union.

SHEFFIELD: We Talk Of Pride And Prejudice

Friday, October 18th, 2013, 7.30pm, £5/£4

Sheffield Students’ Union,

Western Bank,

Sheffield

S10 2TG

http://www.arenaticketshop.co.uk/whats-on/we-talk-of-pride-and-prejudice–the-foundry/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/338019106333217/

At the event a talented group of local writers aged 15-21 share a stage with leading poets Jean ’Binta’ Breeze MBE, Mark Gwynne Jones and Sureshot and all offer their own personal take on the theme of Pride and Prejudice. This show offers playful, witty, soulful and provocative responses to the Jane Austen novel and the book’s central themes in its bicentenary year.

It is part of a new intergenerational project for local elders groups and young writers to engage them in literature and sharing stories.

Developed by Renaissance One in partnership with Writing Yorkshire, in collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union.

EDINBURGH: Rally & Broad present The Darling Buds!

Friday, 17th May, 2013, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8pm-11pm, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

LOU HICKEY:  Lyrical pop with a vintage twist! Lou shares tunes from her latest EP Minutes, Hours, Days.

CAROLINE BIRD: Critically acclaimed poet and playwright. Bird is also, without a doubt, one of the most powerful live poets in the UK, whose readings combine wit, humour and a sense of delivery not always found in poets who write initially for the page. Bird’s most recent collection Watering Can (Carcanet Press) received a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

SOPHIE COOKE: Cooke's work deals with the concealment of truth on various levels, from personal self-deceptions to governments misleading the public. She is the author of the novels The Glass House and Under The Mountain.

Music from the highly recommended LAKE MONTGOMERY!

And the spellbinding VOICEBOX PHYSICAL THEATRE COMPANY

Plus! Introducing his new short story: ‘Red Pills’ by Bram Gieben (The Chemical Poets/ Weaponizer/ aka Texture).

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (BBC Slam finalist 2012/ Stewed Rhubarb Press/ Inky Fingers).

EDINBURGH: Rally & Broad present The Darling Buds!

Friday, 17th May, 2013, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8pm-11pm, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

LOU HICKEY:  Lyrical pop with a vintage twist! Lou shares tunes from her latest EP Minutes, Hours, Days.

CAROLINE BIRD: Critically acclaimed poet and playwright. Bird is also, without a doubt, one of the most powerful live poets in the UK, whose readings combine wit, humour and a sense of delivery not always found in poets who write initially for the page. Bird’s most recent collection Watering Can (Carcanet Press) received a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

SOPHIE COOKE: Cooke's work deals with the concealment of truth on various levels, from personal self-deceptions to governments misleading the public. She is the author of the novels The Glass House and Under The Mountain.

Music from the highly recommended LAKE MONTGOMERY!

And the spellbinding VOICEBOX PHYSICAL THEATRE COMPANY

Plus! Introducing his new short story: ‘Red Pills’ by Bram Gieben (The Chemical Poets/ Weaponizer/ aka Texture).

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (BBC Slam finalist 2012/ Stewed Rhubarb Press/ Inky Fingers).

BATH: Whistle, by Martin Figura

Wednesday, 20th March, 2013, 8pm, £12 (£10 concessions)

The Rondo Theatre

St Saviour’s Road

Larkhall

Bath

BA1 6RT

Whistle

Written and performed by Martin Figura

When the poet and photographer Martin Figura was nine years old, his father murdered his mother. This shocking event is at the heart of his powerful one-man show ‘Whistle’, but it is by no means the whole story.  

Set against a backdrop of family photographs, letters and documents, Whistle’ is a tour de force of poetry in performance. Martin Figura eloquently transcends the tragic details to deliver a coming of age story that is funny, moving and uplifting in equal measure. 

“Profoundly honest and at the same time joyfully entertaining” Independent on Sunday

“Martin Figura's riveting sequence of poems about his childhood, his father killing his mother, and the consequences of that upon the whole family is remarkable” Jackie Kay


Available from Bath Box Office. Tel: 01225 463362
www.bathboxoffice.org.uk  

BATH: Whistle, by Martin Figura

Wednesday, 20th March, 2013, 8pm, £12 (£10 concessions)

The Rondo Theatre

St Saviour’s Road

Larkhall

Bath

BA1 6RT

Whistle

Written and performed by Martin Figura

When the poet and photographer Martin Figura was nine years old, his father murdered his mother. This shocking event is at the heart of his powerful one-man show ‘Whistle’, but it is by no means the whole story.  

Set against a backdrop of family photographs, letters and documents, Whistle’ is a tour de force of poetry in performance. Martin Figura eloquently transcends the tragic details to deliver a coming of age story that is funny, moving and uplifting in equal measure. 

“Profoundly honest and at the same time joyfully entertaining” Independent on Sunday

“Martin Figura's riveting sequence of poems about his childhood, his father killing his mother, and the consequences of that upon the whole family is remarkable” Jackie Kay


Available from Bath Box Office. Tel: 01225 463362
www.bathboxoffice.org.uk  

ALDWINCLE: Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

Saturday, April 21, and Sunday 22, 2012, 7.30pm-8.30pm, £10, £8 concessions (includes £2 donation to The Churches Conservation Trust)

All Saints Church,

Thorpe Road,

Aldwincle,

NN14 3EA

Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

The national premiere of a performance by poet Jo Bell and storyteller Jo Blake Cave.
Inspired by their journey along the Nene in the footsteps of nature writer BB, this hour-long performance brings you atmosphere, mesmerising stories, humour and humanity.
This evening will also mark the first availability of: ALWALTON - WOLLASTON
A visual response to our journey on the Nene by Jo Dacombe and Kate Dyer.
A limited edtion will be for sale at this performance.

If event is not sold out, tickets will be available on the door.

For further information please contact:
Rosalind Stoddart
01536 370108
ros@rosalindstoddart.co.uk
www.rosalindstoddart.co.uk

ALDWINCLE: Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

Saturday, April 21, and Sunday 22, 2012, 7.30pm-8.30pm, £10, £8 concessions (includes £2 donation to The Churches Conservation Trust)
All Saints Church,

Thorpe Road,

Aldwincle,

NN14 3EA

Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

The national premiere of a performance by poet Jo Bell and storyteller Jo Blake Cave.
Inspired by their journey along the Nene in the footsteps of nature writer BB, this hour-long performance brings you atmosphere, mesmerising stories, humour and humanity.
This evening will also mark the first availability of: ALWALTON - WOLLASTON
A visual response to our journey on the Nene by Jo Dacombe and Kate Dyer.
A limited edtion will be for sale at this performance.

If event is not sold out, tickets will be available on the door.

For further information please contact:
Rosalind Stoddart
01536 370108
ros@rosalindstoddart.co.uk
www.rosalindstoddart.co.uk

BARNSTAPLE: Opposition

Tuesday, 21st February, 2012, 8pm, £10 / student £5

Queens Theatre Studio,
Boutport Street,
Barnstaple
EX31 1SY
www.applesandsnakes / www.hannahsilva.wordpress.com / www.northdevontheatres.org.uk 

A Barbican Theatre production, in association with Apples and Snakes presents OPPOSITION
 
In her new solo show Opposition, award-winning writer, performer and vocal gymnast Hannah Silva uses multiple art forms to dissect and parody political language, revealing the meaning, music and claptrap beneath the rhetoric of today’s (big?) society.

BARNSTAPLE: Opposition

Tuesday, 21st February, 2012, 8pm, £10 / student £5
Queens Theatre Studio,
Boutport Street,
Barnstaple
EX31 1SY
www.applesandsnakes / www.hannahsilva.wordpress.com / www.northdevontheatres.org.uk

A Barbican Theatre production, in association with Apples and Snakes presents OPPOSITION
 
In her new solo show Opposition, award-winning writer, performer and vocal gymnast Hannah Silva uses multiple art forms to dissect and parody political language, revealing the meaning, music and claptrap beneath the rhetoric of today’s (big?) society.