About this event
Join performance poets Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger for an afternoon workshop designed to increase confidence in sharing your poems/monologues/stories with an audience, including the opportunity to practise your mic technique in a supportive environment. Bring along something to write with and on, plus three or four poems or other pieces that you’d be happy to read aloud (they don’t need to have been written by you, but it would be great if they are linked somehow to Shakespeare).
This workshop, part of Shakespeare in Sutton – FOLIO’s fun festival for all, is aimed at anyone aged 16 or over. It will be fun, highly interactive and engaging! Participants will have the opportunity to perform their pieces (including if they are written by other people), if they wish to do so, at the Shakespeare in Sutton spoken word event, Mouthpieces, on Friday 29th April at 8pm at Highbury Theatre. Participants may choose to attend the festival’s morning workshop focussing on writing skills (rather than performance skills) if they wish to do so though this will require separate booking.
About this event
Join freelance writer and performance poet Emma Purshouse for a fun and friendly morning of poetry /creative-writing activities using all things Shakespeare as inspiration, as part of Shakespeare in Sutton – FOLIO’s fun festival for all. Bring something to write with and on.
This workshop is aimed at anyone aged 16 or over. It will be relaxed, interactive and engaging!
Participants may also choose to attend the festival’s afternoon workshop focussing on performance skills if they wish to do so though this will require separate booking.
Participants will have the opportunity to perform their pieces, if they wish to do so, at the Shakespeare in Sutton spoken word event, Mouthpieces, on Friday 29th April at 8pm at Highbury Theatre.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-bard-to-verse-a-spoken-word-writing-workshop-tickets-276735121197
Emma Purshouse will be performing with Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
Join Emma Purshouse and local historian Ian M Bott as they take you on a guided walk round Wednesbury. These walks will include appearances by poets and performers Brendan Hawthorne, Suzan Spence, Marion Cockin, Matt Windle, and Alex Vann.
19th March – walks at 11am and 1pm
26th March – walks at 11am (BSL signed) and 1pm (BSL signed)
The walks are free but there are limited places so please do book if you’d like to take part.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesbury-tales-a-guided-wander-around-wednesbury-tickets-272680834717
Zoom reading, hosted by Paul Francis and Steve Pottinger.
An event drawing on work from two recent collections:
Poetry and Settled Status for All, edited by Ambrose Musiyiwa.
You’re Welcome, edited by Paul Francis in aid of Shropshire Supports Refugees.
The reading will include contributions from both editors, and seven other poets from a varied range of background and experience, (including Steve Harrison, Chris Kinsey and Emma Purshouse).
If you wish to attend, please e-mail Colin Wells at colin@colinwells.com. He’ll acknowledge your request, and send you an invite on the day.
Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists bring their regular poetry night to Wolverhampton’s Light House for the Literature Festival. An energetic and entertaining evening, with a headline set from David Bowden and the ‘Alf Ender: Kuli Kohli. 10 open mic slots are also available by emailing poetsprattlerspandemonialists@gmail.com.
About the Headliners
David Bowden is an educator and founder of Word Guerrilla. Utilising beatboxing, live looping, and multi-instrumentalism, he delivers Word Guerrilla’s brand of spoken word poetry performances to a variety of different educational settings, workplaces and events across the country, making performance poetry accessible and exciting for all. David was the winner of the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Slam in 2021.
David Bowden is an educator and founder of Word Guerrilla. Utilising beatboxing, live looping, and multi-instrumentalism, he delivers Word Guerrilla’s brand of spoken word poetry performances to a variety of different educational settings, workplaces and events across the country, making performance poetry accessible and exciting for all. David was the winner of the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Slam in 2021.
Price: Free (Donations Welcome)
Book: Booking not required, please feel free to drop in
Join us to celebrate our outgoing and incoming City of Wolverhampton Poet Laureates. In this special event, Emma Purshouse will be sharing poems and her experience from her tenure as the Poet Laureate. Emma will then hand over the reins to Kuli Kohli, who will showcase her own poetry and what we can expect from her over the next two years.
Price: Free
The Gloucestershire Poetry Society presents the first of their regular online events in 2022, ‘Crafty Crows’, hosted by Josephine Lay.
To reserve an open-mic slot for this event, please email, craftycrows2020@yahoo.com (first come, first served). Open-mic slots will be 3 minutes max. (please stick to this, as we don’t want to have to cut people off). Please be aware that Crafty Crows is recorded, and subsequently posted via youtube.
Featuring…
Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath, England. She is the current U.K. slam champion and a World Slam Finalist. Her poems mostly focus around mental health, disability, loss, and survival.
Emma Purshouse, Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton. She is a poetry slam champion and has performed at spoken word nights and festivals across the UK, often using her native Black Country dialect in her work. Emma’s debut novel ‘Dogged’ (Ignite Books) was published in 2021.
https://helmtickets.com/events/7572/crafty-crows-online-poetry-kathryn-odriscoll-emma-purshouse-plus-open-mic
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