my writer’s residency with Royal Shakespeare Company Adelaide Road performance and free app

Adelaide Road – an interactive theatrical journey where the world is a stage and you are a player

For the past six months, I’ve been poet in residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company on a project called Adelaide Road. The live performances of the show will take place on Saturday, May 14th. Tickets are free but you need to book your place. Click here for more information -

http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/projects/adelaide-road/

We’ve also just launched the Adelaide Road iPhone app which you can download for free. As well as listening to poems and stories, you can also play games and have a go at your own creative writing. This is the first iPhone app the RSC has done and I’m very excited to be part of it!

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id433652996

The project also has a specially designed map website which will be launched by May 14th where you can take a virtual journey along the road listening to poems and stories.
www.rsc.org.uk/adelaideroad

You can also follow the project on twitter #adelaiderd or @AoifeMannix or @TheRSC. We’re looking for answers to questions such as where’s the best place to fall in love?

If you get a chance to check out the live and/or digital aspects of my residency, I’d love to hear what you think! Thanks a million and hope you’re enjoying the sunshine.

xxAoife

OTHER EVENTS
May 12th at 7pm, Poet in the City, Claudiu Komartin, Aoife Mannix, hosted by Amanda Hopkinson at the Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH. call 020 7752 0134 or email office@icr-london.co.uk FREE

June 1st at 7:30pm, Yard presents the Special Relationship with special guests Simon Crump and Aoife Mannix. Concrete @ Pizza East, Lower Ground Floor 56 Shoreditch High Street London, E1 6JJ
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223687974314020

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Saturday June 4th- 3.30pm and 7.30pm Perpetual Light: Requiem For An Unscorched Earth by Jessica Curry
The Old Vic Tunnels, Leek Street, London SE1 7NN
For bookings enquiries please contact Sarah Ellis scarahnellis@gmail.com
www.oldvictheatre.com Website: www.perpetual-light.com

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news for April

Hope you’re enjoying the sunshine! Here’s a few things I’m up to at the moment and be great to see you if you’re able to make it along.

I’m poet in residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company working on an interactive project called Adelaide Road. This culminates in promenade performances that begins at Hampstead Theatre on May 14th at 2pm, 3:30pm or 5pm. Tickets are free but you need to book so click here to find out more – http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/projects/adelaide-road/

I’m poet in residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live on April 16th http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgj4

I’m performing at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho on April 21st

Thu-21-Apr (7:00pm) – £18.00
GLOBAL MUSIC FOUNDATION AND CEGIN PRODUCTIONS PRESENT: 2ND JAZZ & POETRY FEAST WITH TIM LAPTHORN TRIO
Show Time 8:30pm / Doors Open 7:00pm

For tonight’s feast, wordsmiths led by Bafta nominated and Perrier Award winner Stuart Silver will include Aoife Mannix, Hannah Silva and Richard Douglas Pennant who collectively have astonished audiences with their insight, invention and humour, on stages from Sligo to Shanghai.
The night will also include the trio playing 2 sets of music only, featuring a sneak peek at Tim’s latest compositions from their new CD “Intentions” – to be released later this year.
http://tinyurl.com/65wqlk4

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news for March

Spring has finally sprung so here are a few things I’m up to at the moment. Be great to see you if you’re able to make it along.

I’m poet in residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company on a project called Adelaide Road. It’s all been very exciting with lots of new material from myself and those participating in the workshops I’ve been running. The live performance will be on Saturday, May 14th but please check out the blog in the mean time and leave a comment – http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/blogs/adelaide-road/

I’m poet in residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live
on March 19th and April 16th. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgj4/episodes/upcoming

I’m performing at Poetry Lives at Keats House
on March 27th at 2pm
Keats House Poets have invited Aoife Mannix to perform at our regular open mic and performance event at Keats House museum in Hampstead, with other special guest poets including Raymond Antrobus, Deanna Rodger, Simon Mole, Dean Atta, Laila Sumpton and Anthony Hett.

Paul Sherreard from Keats House said
“We are really glad to welcome Aoife back as we reach the end of an amazing year of poetry, which saw Paul Lyalls, Niall O’Sullivan, Inua Ellams, Sonority Turner, Belinda Zhawi, Anthony Anaxagorou and many other fantastic poets show us just how much Poetry Lives at Keats House”

The event is funded by Stories of the World and Renaissance London, as part of the Cultural Olympiad in celebration of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The event takes place on 27 March, 2 – 4pm, tickets are FREE but you need to register in advance by emailing paul.sherreard@cityoflondon.gov.uk.

I’m launching my Sutton Word Factory anthology on March 29th at 7pm at Carshalton Water Tower. The book represents the culmination of my writer’s residency in Sutton and features work by myself, heritage expert Laura Allan and Sutton residents. My residency was run by Spread the Word in partnership with Sutton Council and support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. http://suttonwordfactory.com/

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news for February

Happy New Year!  Hope 2011 has got off to a good start for you.  I’ve just got back from a trip to Nigeria with the British Council.  I had a brilliant time, really inspiring and interesting place.  Here’s a few things I’m up to at the moment, be great to see you if you’re able to make it along.

Apples & Snakes in Soho

http://tinyurl.com/645hvd4

Blake Morrison is perhaps best known as the author of the family memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? But he’s also one of the UK’s best-respected poets, his early collections Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper having established a voice that celebrates everyday human experience whilst acknowledging the darkness just below its surface: a theme that also echoes through his plays, libretti and non-fiction writing. Tonight he delves into his impressive back-catalogue.

The evening also features sets from incisive Irish poet Aoife Mannix, and majestic chansonnier Philip Jeays.  Join us for an indisputably poetic experience.

When: Wednesday 9 February, 8pm
Where: Soho Theatre, 21 Dean St, London W1D 3NE
Booking: 020 7478 0100 / www.sohotheatre.com
Tickets: £8 / £6conc / £6 under 26

Poet in Residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company http://tinyurl.com/67r9jln

Inspired by Shakespeare’s As You Like It, part of the current RSC Roundhouse season, Adelaide Road is a new interactive project linking the RSC’s work at the Roundhouse with its season of three world premieres at nearby Hampstead Theatre from April this year.  A web-based map and iPhone application will give access to audiences around the world to the project, as well as enabling a location specific interaction on Adelaide Road itself.

Poet in residence Aoife Mannix will be asking Camden residents to respond creatively to the history and people of Adelaide Road. Through a series of themed creative writing workshops and storytelling activities, she will use Shakespeare’s play as an inspiration for modern tales of love, betrayal and exile. If you are interested in taking part in the workshops, please email aoife.mannix@rsc.org.uk.  Workshops are free but booking is essential.

Upcoming workshops:

February 9th 10:30am – 12:30pm – Kentish Town Library

February 28th 7pm to 9pm – Chalk Farm Library

March 9th 10:30am – 12:30pm – Kentish Town Library

March 14th 7pm to 9pm – Chalk Farm Library

Lead Writer in Residence with South Kilburn Speaks –http://tinyurl.com/6aouzl3

South Kilburn Speaks is a text based art project run by the Poetry School for South Kilburn Partnership.  Three writers (Aoife Mannix, Niall O’Sullivan and Simon Mole) are working with local people to create and document stories to capture a shared sense of place that will be translated into public art.  This includes temporary installations on hoarding boards as well as permanent ones on railings, paving slabs and sculptural bollards to be created by artist Andy Edwards.

Poet in Residence with BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live http://tinyurl.com/6gkc6lv

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Sutton Word Factory – launch of my writer’s residency

SUTTON WORD FACTORY

Take part in a range of creative writing workshops exploring

Sutton’s heritage with poet and novelist Aoife Mannix,

culminating in an anthology celebrating the future of the

borough. A travelling display of Sutton’s past will accompany the workshops.

No experience necessary. Workshops are suitable for all aged 16+

All workshops are FREE and booking is essential.

Thursday 7 Oct 6:30pm-9pm LAUNCH

Salvation Army, Benhill Avenue

SM1 4DD

Launch and workshop

Booking Essential – Call 020 8770 6990

To find out more and take part online, visit the project blog:

http://www.suttonwordfactory.com

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