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What's On - Aug Sat 18th/Sun 19th
ARTournament & Cafe Rennes 12:00pm until 11:00pm. Greyfriars, outside
Cafe Renes. Gloucester City Centre. This August weekend is the Grand
Finale to ARTournament but please don’t be sad cause we have already
been planning a new and exciting adventure . . . watch this space
Gloucester!! We have spent twelve months checking out all the talented
Comedy Gurus, Bands, Musicians, Performance Poets, Story Tellers,
Writers, Dancers, and Theatre Groups at the ARTournament Sunday Chills.
The audience voted and we are delighted to bring you a FREE day of the
best bands, musicians and a couple of surprises. There are also three
stages of the best Comedy, Performance Poets and Gothic Theatre Group
performing all day at Blackfriars on Saturday 18th. More info and a list
of performers are detailed in this event listing…
https://www.facebook.com/events/420023918037826/ We have the incredible Cafe Renes collaborating with us to bring you all a day of laughter, singing, dancing, mask making, fancy dress, story tellers, drinking and feasting. We are aiming to have a little something to entertain everyone and we all really hope you will join us. We would also like to thank Paul James who is head of the City Council and Mark Hawthorne who is head of the County Council for all their help and support with this project. The council has donated both Greyfriars and Blackfriars for these events and we all hope you enjoy yourselves. We have an incredible line up of
performers and will have full details of the line up and slot times
before the end of July . . . please watch this space. ARTournament have
only gone and booked a legendary singer for their free stage on Sunday
19th August. Get on! Top five hit in Italy Jamie Irie is Gloucester’s
very own secret super-star legend.
You will
not believe how good and well-respected Mr Irie is in Jamaica and New
York. Worked with everyone from Sly Dunbar and Shaggy to Tenorfly and
The Mighty Diamonds. Impossibly brilliant voice and swagger! Ma-hoo-sive!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t believe us read what one of the top
music mags have to say…
http://www.reggaeville.com/nc/artist-details/artist/jamie-irie/ac/biography.html Sat 18th/ Sun 19th
Stony Paint Jam, Bull Hotel 64 High St Stony Sratford; 12 noon-8pm. A
whole weekend of visual and live art from the Jam Free crew will be
taking over Stony Stratford for a weekend with poetry and music Tues 21st
Mee Club Kitchen Garden Cafe Kings Heath.
7.30pm-11pm: I am launching a new club in Birmingham in August. It’s
called The Mee
Club, and it’s a spoken word
cabaret club – for singles! (Audience, that is – not the acts!) It’s
twice monthly, and the ‘show’ will feature performance poets,
storytellers, journalists, actors, authors, singer-songwriters and
comedians. Thurs 23rd
Bilston Voices, Cafe Metro, Church St Bilston, 7.30pm: Bob Hale Fri 24th
Word Up Six Eight Kafe, 6/8 Temple Row Birmingham; 6.30pm-8.30pm. Free
in, Decadent Divas, plus support Fri 24th Spoken Worlds.
The Old Cottage Tavern, Byrkley Street,
Burton-upon-Trent DE14 2JJ Open mic, 7.30 Fri 24th
Stand up Comedy and Poetry with jan watts, Solihull Arden Club, Sharmans
Cross road, Solihull £5 in, 7pm Sat 25th
Poets Place, Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham
B3 3HQ Tickets: £FREE 2-4pm
Poets’ Place is an informal gathering of poets that
happens twice a month. It is an opportunity to meet like‐minded people,
give and solicit feedback on your poetry, or just sit back and write for
a couple of hours without interruption. You can use the Poets’ Place to
make new friends, discover new poets, share and have your work
critiqued, make useful connections, set a writing schedule… The Poets’
Place can be whatever you decide to make of it. The Poets’ Place is located on
the Lower Ground Floor of Birmingham Central Library and it access via
the Netloan Centre. Info:
www.birmingham.gov.uk/centrallibrary /
www.facebook.com/placeforpoets Sat 25th
Hullabaloo Festival – Cheltenham Poetry stage
runs 8.30 – 9.30
Saturday 25 August
Guy Williams Charlie Du Pre James Bunting Sunday 26 August Tim Brewis Hay Brunsden Fergus Mcgongal Monday 27 August Gary Longden Peter Wyton – Sat 25th,
Robin Hood and the Giant, Outside The Black Country Arms and The
Crossing at St. Paul’s. 12 noon- 4pm Sun 26th
Sunday Xpress, Start 16:30 Adam & Eve Bradford Street, Birmingham B12
0JD Open mic
Tues 28th
Poetry and Scones 1, Old School, Main St Alrewas,
11.15am-12.15� Bert Flitcroft, Sharing a favourite poem of your own with
a group – just for the pleasure of it. Tues 28th
Word Wizards Buckingham Hotel, Buxton, 7.30pm, £3 in, Rob Stevens
comperes Wed 29th
“42” Open Mic Night (Gothic, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy) Lunar Bar, New St
Worcester, 7.30, Free in Thurs 30th
Hit the ode, Victoria Pub, Birmingham City Centre, £5 in. 7.30pm Richard
Tyrone Jones Big Heart plus Lorna Meehan Thurs 30th
Poetry, Play and Pints at The Crown Inn.
8.30–10.30, free in
An evening of poetry and
drama which will conclude with an open mic opportunity for you to share
your own poems with an audience. Sign up on arrival |