March 11th, 2008
Soundblast
Performance Poets on CD
SoundBlast is the result of a dynamic collaboration between Apples & Snakes and the Poetry Book Society to promote and sell CDs from performance poets. From Spring 2008, the Poetry Book Society’s online Poetry Bookshop will be featuring CDs from some of the UK’s top performance poets and we will continue to add more in the months to come.
www.poetrybookshoponline.com/soundblast
(website goes live on 6 March)
Please join us to celebrate the launch of SoundBlast with the cream of the London poetry scene, hosted by performer and poet Malika Booker:
Beyonder - multiple slam winner
Inua Ellams - boundless lover of rhythm and language
Aoife Mannix - fresh from her one woman show ‘Growing Up An Alien’
Agnes Meadows - poet of international renown
Steve Tasane - former poet in residence at Battersea Dogs Home
Ventriloquist - one of London’s favourite performers
CDs will be on sale on the night.
Thursday 20 March 2008
Whitechapel Art Gallery Cafe, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1
Doors open 6.30pm, show starts 7pm
FREE ENTRY
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March 11th, 2008
The Meat of the Tongue: Disfigurement
Thursday 13 March, 19.00-20.30
Fully booked
In the Kenyan fairy tale ‘The Meat of the Tongue’, a healthy diet consists of fairy tales, jokes, songs and poems. The poems paint pictures, tell stories, impart information and engage with our emotions. Join our featured poets for live readings of their work exploring physical and mental disfigurement.
Poets
Roddy Lumsden
One of the UK’s most gifted lyrical poets, whose work often explores the tension between conventional ideas of body and self and their disfiguration. His latest collection is ‘Mischief Night: New and selected poems’.
Luke Kennard
A successful younger poet, shortlisted for the Forward Best Poetry Collection Prize in 2007, whose work offers surreal perspectives on the body and on poetry.
Aoife Mannix
A talented poet and performer, whose recent show ‘Growing up an Alien’ on the South Bank received fantastic reviews, and whose poetry often addresses the body and body perception.
This event is Free.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
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February 29th, 2008
SOUNDS LIKE
Thursday March 6th, doors 6.30pm
Whitechapel Art Gallery - 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX.
FREE
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T-Shirt & Jeans present…
~SOUNDS LIKE~
The first T-Shirt and Jeans extravaganzazazazazazazazazazazazazazaza
of 2008!
Music, poetry, drama, fun, games, laughter, raffles, live t-shirt art,
your hottest host Yem B and all the usual goodness. Seats fill fast -
arrive early!
Aoife Mannix is…a deliriously delicious poet
Nila Raja is…a magical musical angel
Andreya Triana is…a supreme singing sensation
Penny Granycome is…a fabulously fine actress
Priscilla Sim & Yemisi Blake are…cool!! (and the co-founders of T&J)
Plus more special guest artists on the night TBC!
Get here!
The T-Shirt & Jeans Team.
For more information contact…
Priscilla Sim: 07869 283 140
Yemisi Blake: 07809 710 170
Email: info@tshirtandjeans.co.uk
www.myspace.com/tshirtandjeansevents
www.tshirtandjeans.co.uk
www.whitechapel.org
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February 29th, 2008
Lambeth Arts and Libraries is proud to present a celebratory event for International Women’s Day 2008. A variety of music and poetry, featuring renowned performance poet, Aoife Mannix and participants from our recent International Women’s Day poetry programme. Also features music and poetry from La Infinite and Floetic Lara.
From 6 – 8pm on Saturday, March 8th at Brixton Library (Brixton Oval) London SW2 1JQ.
For more information contact: Lambeth Arts 020 7926 0760
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February 19th, 2008
Womens’ Week at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre
The Gathering: Bodies and Memory Festival
Growing Up An Alien
by Aoife Mannix / Apples & Snakes
6.00pm, Sunday 9 March
In the company of accordionist Janie Armour, Aoife revisits her nomadic childhood, exploring the relationships that bind families together and the secrets that pull them apart.
Tickets £12.00 / £8.00 conc.
*Weekend Pass £35.00 / £30.00 conc.
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Road,
Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX (nearest tube Seven Sisters)
Box Office: (0)208 365 5450 www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk
A book of the poems from the show ‘Growing Up An Alien’ is available from www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk
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