We are asking for a £1 nominal fee to secure your virtual seat in the Zoom.
Please note a virtual hat will be provided prior to and after the performance. Any proceeds made through the virtual hat will be given directly to the performer.
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About this Event
Ian Elmslie is an occasional actor, singer, songwriter, cabaret performer, author, educator and prison contractor. Or, in his words, a Jacqueline of all trades and a mistress of none. His memoir “A Marvellous Party”, published by Ignite Books, is a ticklish but heartfelt “thank you” letter to his heroes and heroines, who threw down a pathway of glittering breadcrumbs to guide him from where and who he was to where and what he wanted and needed to be. Out, proud, and still wearing too much make-up for a man of his age.
We are asking for a £1 nominal fee to secure your virtual seat in the Zoom.
Please note a virtual hat will be provided prior to and after the performance. Any proceeds made through the virtual hat will be given directly to the performer.
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Named Best Solo Show at Morecambe Fringe Festival 2020
“When faced with material as witty, earnest, and well-observed as this, the last thing that should concern us is which box it goes in.” – Out In Print
“His words are a ride, gliding through intimate storytelling before surging into an eddy of intricate rhymes designed to trip your mind” – Marbles Magazine
We are asking for a £1 nominal fee to secure your virtual seat in the Zoom.
Please note a virtual hat will be provided prior to and after the performance. Any proceeds made through the virtual hat will be given directly to the performer.
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fringe-room-dan-webber-gender-fluid-tickets-133159986103?aff=
Join Joelle Taylor and Ben Davis as they speak about their journey through poetry.
Joelle, an award-winning poet playwright, author and editor will be sharing her stories of travelling the world with her poetry and giving us an insight into her debut book of short stories The Night Alphabet. Ben will be joining Joelle in this discussion and sharing how poetry can be adapted for all ages with a few gags along the way.
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and editor who has recently completed touring Europe, Australia, Brazil and South East Asia with her latest collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She is widely anthologised, the author of 3 full poetry collections and three plays and is currently completing her debut book of short stories The Night Alphabet. She has featured on radio and television and founded SLAMbassadors in 2001 – the UK’s national youth slam championships remaining its Artistic Director until 2018. Her work is taught as part of the English GCSE syllabus, and she has received a Change Maker Award and a Fellowship of the RSA, as well as being longlisted for the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships. She is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, the UK’s Centre’s premier poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre Purcell Room.
Ben Davis is an award-winning author of children’s books. His fast-paced, gag-filled poems are very much for adults, though.
Price: £10 (+ booking fee)
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headline-poet-joelle-taylor-ben-davis-tickets-133700715439?aff=
In the summer of 2020, the Black Country’s regular poetry events were all on hold because of Covid-19. Poets Prattlers and Pandemonialists organised a series of five online events, made possible with the support of Creative Black Country, asking for poems which celebrated the different areas of our region. They received hundreds of submissions. This event will feature a short talk about the project, and sets from each of the poets whose pieces won the £25 prize for Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley, and Stourbridge.
Price: £1 (+ booking fee)
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stay-up-your-own-end-tickets-133132497885?aff=
Panellists talk about their role in the creation of the Black Country edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Tongue and Talk – The Dialect Poets’. Join City of Wolverhampton Poet Laureate, Emma Purshouse, as she natters to actress, writer and series producer Catherine Harvey, poet and playwright Brendan Hawthorne (Poet Laureate for Wednesbury), singer songwriter and poet Heather Wastie, along with dialect expert Esther Asprey. Expect discussion about the Black Country vernacular, with some dialect poetry and song thrown into the mix.
Price: £7 (+ booking fee)
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Join Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists in the digital world of Zoom as 15 competitors go head to head in a live poetry competition. Poets will be competing for the prize of a paid slot at The Wolverhampton Literature Festival in 2022. Expect poetry at its finest, a little bit of chaos, shots of people’s living rooms, bookcases and a showcase of Dave Pitt’s excellent excel skills. Let battle commence!
Price: £7 (+ booking fee)
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-slam-tickets-133118050673?aff=
Join performance poets Steve Pottinger and Emma Purshouse for the third in their series of winter workshops. It is claimed that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year! Come along for an online antidote. Spring is just around the corner. Show your love for the natural world by creating some praise poetry. Have a go at a ghazal. A fun and friendly session with experienced workshop facilitators. Want to join in? Book your place via the ticket link.
This session is part of Boundary Way Project’s Winter Wonder season – a series of events and activities to encourage connection, warmth and creativity during the cold season. The project is supported by funding from the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage.
Workshop participants will be offered the opportunity to join in and read the work they create at Wolverhampton Literature Festival as part of an Open Mic session for Boundary Way Writers on the 14th of February at 10.30am.
Tickets are £2.50 and available here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4848182
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