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Crafting Your Poem and AfterCraft took place on the 8th of August chez Alan and Rose and Approaching Your Poem on the 13th of August at Trinity Methodist Church. Additional sessions can be scheduled at any time if there is sufficient demand. Places are £10 per session. Contact Alan on argillott@gmail.com or 01904 733767 to book a place; for Performing Your Poem, contact Rose on rose@stairwellbooks.com or 01904 733767. Rose and Alan Features None scheduled. The Exhibitionists are The Spoken Word’s touring team of poets who are available to feature by arrangement at venues no to far distant from York. Recent Gigs Space 109 - Fund Raising Shindig: September 16th 2011 at 7.30pm Members of The Spoken Word Exhibitionists featured at an Open Mic. to raise funds for this community space. For more information about this valuable community resource see the Space 109 web page. www.space109.org/events/upcoming-events Poets included: Helen Burke, John Gilham, Tanya Nightingale, Alan Gillott, Pauline Kirk, Rob Nightingale (singer/poet), Andy Humphry. The Open Mic. included Tim Ellis, john Walford and Helen Sant. Book Launches Alan Gillott - The Launch of Beyond the Window will be at the Lamb and Lion in Hilgh Petergate, York, supported by Bush and McCluskey. February Come and help Alan to launch his new collection of poetry at the Lamb and Lion in High Petergate. This collection has been endorsed by John Gilgam, Paul Sutherland and Edd Cain, and are described by his publisher, Pauline Kirk as “...full of variety, but whether light-hearted or deeply serious, they are carefully crafted. They take us from England to the United States, India and places between. The journey is fascinating, thought provoking, and always entertaining.” The evening will be supported by other readers and the incredible York duo, Bush and McCluskey. An entry fee of £4.00 to cover incidental costs which will include a voucher redeemable at the bar for one drink up the value of £2.50. There are no immediate planned theme nights. From time to time we put on special theme nights, just for fun, or to support a new book or venture. Our erotic poetry nights have been very popular; and the Railway Theme night launched Stairwell Books’ Along the Iron Veins Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Every year, the March Open Mic. celebrates International Women’s Day. Erotic Poetry Night We have now run two Erotic Poetry theme nights, one during the 2010 York Literature Festival and one for the First Malton Literature Festival. Both were resounding successes. We are very happy to arrange another event: please contact us for more information. Yes, Slam Poetry has come to York! This historic event took place at the City Screen Basement Bar. With guest judge Ash Dickenson ably assisted by Jem Henderson, Alan Gillott and Andy Humphrey. The 2011 Slam was won by Tim Ellis by the tiniest of hairs. We look forward to next year’s repeat event. The York Poetry Slam is organized jointly by The Spoken Word, Speaker’s Corner and Poems, Prose and Pints
This York festival is organised annually by a group of concerned York women to span the internationally recognised International Women’s Day. Established in 1911, the day celebrates the achievements of Women throughout the world. Every year, in support of this effort, Spoken Word participants take part in, or put on, events to support the York International Women’s Week. We also dedicate our March Open Mic at This year, 2011, is the Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day, the first of which was celebrated on the 19th March, 1911. Within a week, on the 25th March, in New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, more than 140 women, working in sweat shop conditions, were burned to death. These were two key events in women’s struggle for equality and dignity. In 2011 Patricia Riley, the author of the seminal Looking for Githa, gave two illustrated talks, Against All Tradition, about the playwright Githa Sowerby, hailed in 1912 as the ‘Talent to compare with Ibsen’ by West End critics, completely unaware that KG Sowerby was a woman. Copies of Looking for Githa are available from the New Writing North bookshop. Trinity Church Arts Festival The Spoken Word supports the Trinity Church Arts Festival held in August of each year. The festival is focussed on the arts of the community and church mounts a display of art, photography, music and verse; and in conjunction with The spoken Word, presents an open mic. for community poets. In 2011 the Festival put on a poetry workshop for those interested in writing poetry but who feel overwhelmed.This workshop introduces poetry as a means to express ideas and emotions which are hard to do in more formal writing. The logic of prose can become an insurmountable hurdle for many who are looking for a simple way to say what they are feeling. Trinity Methodist Church is to be found in Monkgate, York. 50 + Festival An Evening of Poetry and Prose - 7pm Fri 30th Sept. at St. Martin’s Coney Street The Spoken Word sponsors an evening of Poetry and prose to celebrate growing older. This event is open to all of any age. Readers under 50 are asked to focus on older mentors, teachers, parents and grandparents. If you are interested in next year’s programme please contact Rose on rose@stairwellbooks.com. The event takes place at St. Martin’s Church in Coney Street, adjacent to the City Screen. Entry is free but a donation is requested toward the cost of Wine and Cheese. Previous Rose and Alan Features Rose and Alan most recently featured at “The Garage” in Newtown Connecticut Connecticut’s longest running weekly Open Mic - Wednesday Night Poetry. Alan also featured at the Second Monday Barnes and Noble, Stamford Connecticut, in April 2011. Rose and Alan, supported by Andy Brown and Mary Callan read at Take Ten at the Cumberland Arms in Newcastle hosted by Poetry Jack who performed at the recent York Poetry Slam. Rose performed with Voice of an Angel, Paul Martin, and Hot Fudge in a show of magic, music, poetry and soul at Clement’s Hall in Nunthorpe Road Rose with Tanya Nightingale performed their show She’s The Cultured One at the Three Sisters as part of the Edinburgh Free Fringe. Details are posted on the She’s the Cultured One web page. This show, a 35 minute duologue, was enjoyed by everyone who came to see it, is available on request. Rose was the guest host for an evening of Poetry and Writing on the theme of Observations at the Leeds Combined Arts Poetry Evening at the Headingly Enterprise and Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingly, LS6 3HN. Further information about the LCA can be found on www.leedscombinedarts.org.uk/lca/index.shtml
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