O2 Wireless Festival, Hyde Park
5 July 4:00pm - 6:00pm
see www.o2wirelessfestival.co.uk
Poetry event at the O2 Wireless festival hosted by The London Magazine and Trespass, featuring poetry & short fiction including Roddy Lumsden, Katy Evans-Bush, Tom Chivers, Aoife Mannix, Isobel Dixon, Paul Birtill, Maureen Jivani, Ruth O’Callaghan, and Naomi Woodis
Escalator: Live Literature 2008
Escalator 2008 has now been launched. This talent scheme for the East of England will this year focus on live literature (performance poetry, spoken word, story telling, anything that makes the written word live).
Five writers/performers living in the East of England will be selected and will work with one of our five mentors to create their own one person live literature show. They will be guided through an Arts Council England Grants For The Arts bid to support their work and be offered places on professional development workshops with stars of the live literature scene, and spend three days working with West End theatre director James Grieve to hone a 20 minute extract from their show to be performed at a showcase in May 2009.
Escalator Literature 2008 mentors/judges are: Francesca Beard, Matt Harvey, Aöife Mannix, Courttia Newland, and Russell Thompson (creator of Rachel Pantechnicon).
Deadline for entries is 31st July 2008
Escalator 2008 Live Literature is managed by New Writing Partnership.
Full details can be found on the New Writing Partnership website:
www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk/escalator
Wellcome Collection ran a series of events in partnership with Poet in the City exploring various aspects of the human body. These videos feature performances from three of the poets who took part in these events - Tishani Doshi, Caroline Bird and Aoife Mannix
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/meatofthetongue
Poetry Arena at Latitude Festival
See www.latitudefestival.co.uk for more information
17 – 20 July 2008
Showcasing the very best in contemporary performance poets, The Poetry Arena was hugely popular last year, changing many people’s perceptions as to how poetry readings could be. Comedy sketches alongside Hip Hop, slam poets, raconteurs, spoken word, lyricism, storytelling, rappers and much much more made this tent a roaring success for punters and performers alike. So much so that some of the funniest, satirical, hard-hitting, absurd, bizarre, and witty poets are returning for this year’s event.
Featuring: Carol Ann Duffy - Adrian Mitchell - John Hegley & Keith Moore - Simon Armitage - Poetry - Attila The Stockbroker - John Burnside - Poetry - Joe Dunthorne - Luke Wright - Daljit Nagra - John Berkavitch - Aisle 16 - Porky The Poet - Aoife Mannix - Niall O’Sullivan - Teen Angst - Joel Stickley - Rachel Pantechnicon - Kat Francois - Tim Clare - Ross Sutherland - Byron Vincent - Elvis McGonagall - Hovis In Wonderland - Poem InBetween People - Dockers MC - Nathan Filer - Yanny Mac Domestic Goddess - Tim Wells - Hannah Walker - Andy Craven-Griffiths - John Osborne - Project Adorno - Mik Artistik - Josh Weller - Tim Turnbull - Paul MacJoyce - Kate Tempest - Steve Tasane - Jo Overfield - Drew Taylor - Alex Sheppard - Patrick Lappin - Penny Sailor - Yam Boy - Yennis Blake - Joe Hakim - Poeticat - Kriss Foster - Ventriloquist -
Ledbury Poetry Festival is Britain’s largest Poetry Festival, brimming with events over ten days every summer. See www.poetry-festival.com for more information
Growing Up an Alien
Saturday, July 12th
5.00pm - 6.00pm Market Theatre £10
Intimate, enchanting and funny, Growing Up An Alien is the new show from captivating Irish writer and performer Aoife Mannix. In the company of mesmeric accordionist Janie Armour, Aoife revisits her nomadic childhood, exploring the relationships that bind all families together and the secrets that pull them apart. Born in a snowstorm in Stockholm on the stroke of midnight, Aoife reveals a wondrous coming-of-age tale about searching for a place to belong.