tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322921862011-12-15T03:04:20.499Zquick reference listings for UK live music and literature eventsx_reviewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18099837797421886644noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292186.post-90910459927406962552008-07-11T09:22:00.000+01:002008-07-11T09:23:26.337+01:00

Africa Beyond presents Talking In Tongues as part of the Mama Africa series:Sunday, 13 July 2008, 18.00Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre www.londonlitfest.com/events/talking-in-tongues Admission: £7 (limited half price concessions available) Africa Beyond (www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond) (www.myspace.com/africabeyond) presents an evening at the Southbank Centre in celebration of

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AFRICAN WRITERS' EVENING feat. Robyn ScottThursday 22 May 2008, 7.30pm (doors) Poetry Studio, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)4.00 / 3.00 (conc)Info: www.x-bout.com/aweFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/African-Writers-Evening/14270858721 ---For the month of May, AWE presents Robyn Scott, who after a childhood spent in an isolated wilderness in Botswana, followed by boarding

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  13 April at 6.00pm INTERNATIONAL FUTURES presented by Nii Ayikwei Parkes International Futures gets right to the heart of International PEN's work, celebrating the great writers you know and the great writers you don't. Compere Nii Parkes is a Ghanaian novelist and performance poet who has previously been a BBC Radio 3 Associate Writer-in-Residence. Mohamed Magani, an Algerian novelist and

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African Writers' Evening this Thursday 20 March 2008. Details below:For the month of March, the month of Ghana's independence and the most recent national assembly elections in Uganda, we are proud to present the two AWE hosts from last year - Nick Makoha of Uganda and Nii Ayikwei Parkes from Ghana. Under the banner of Old Faces, New Work, Nick will be reading exclusive new material from his

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Niall O'SullivanVentriloquism for Monkeys book launch21st November 7pmUpstairs at The Yorkshire Grey29-33 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8PN (map)Nearest Tube- Chancery Lane (0.3 miles), Farringdon (0.4 miles), Holborn (0.4 miles)Entry: FREENiall O'Sullivan's second collection, Ventriloquism for Monkeys, is launched at the Yorkshire Grey, Gray's Inn Road on 21st November. Location will be the

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In November (Friday, 16th November) the African Writers' Evening brings you a classic AWE line up - one poet, one prose-writer, one South African, one West African, two points on the continent's compass in one cool English night. From South Africa we have Isobel Dixon, whose debut collection Weather Eye won two awards at home, reading from a new collection, A Fold in the Map; and from Gambia,

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To match the abundance of the season African Writers' Evening brings you a line up of four fantastic writers with guest host, and author of The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man, Nick Makoha (Uganda). He will introduce Musa Okwonga (Uganda), whose football book, A Cultured Left Foot, has caught the attention of the media; Jessica Horn (Uganda), author of Speaking in Tongues, who will be

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Monday, 6 August 2007, 7:00 pm Liars' Cramp Live Fiction@ Treadwells Bookshop 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2 Free entry/Stories on sale Download Flyer---Liars Cramp is a group of talented London writers, short story tellers and novelists, dedicated to writing and performing live fiction. Formed from a core group of friends who met on the MA Creative Writing course at Birkbeck,

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AFRICAN WRITERS' EVENING (special evening as part of Word from Africa Season)Friday 8 June 2007, 7.30pm promptPoetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)FREEInfo: www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond and www.x-bout.com/awe --- This month the African Writers' Evening features, in collaboration with the Word From Africa Festival, three writers - two (a poet and a debut novelist)

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BOOK SLAM @ NEIGHBOURHOODTuesday, 29/05/07 - 6.30pm doors,Neighbourhood, 12 Acklam Road, London, W10 5QZ5.00 in advance from www.bookslam.com / 6.00 on the door---GreetsI'm so excited/ And I just can't hide it/ I'm about to lose controland I think I like it. Really. Book Slam at Neighbourhood this month is going to be spesh, natch, and DYFI ... guests so super we'refitting them for costumes. But

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AFRICAN WRITERS' EVENINGFriday 18 May 2007, 7.30pm (doors)Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)4.00 / 3.00 (conc)---This month's AWE features two female writers - one with South African roots, the other with East African roots. Both women represent partof the story of Africa that other people always try to tell, label,or construct, but nobody will ever tell the way it will

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The Literary Circle, the event wing of The Liberal, launches its new programme with Songs of Spring on 16th May 2007; an evening of poetry reading with David Constantine and a selection of the finest young poets in Britain, including Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Niccoló Milanese, Olivia McCannon Sasha Dugdale Venue: Keats House, Keats Grove, Hampstead, NW3 2RR Tickets: £6/£4, with a complimentary glass

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This month at the Cellar there are sets from two stellar (or should that be Stella...) performance poets.First up we get a visit from Aisle 16 superstar and Liverpool poetry scene supremo, Ross Sutherland. Expect surrealistic satires where the protagonists overcome a sea of troubles and live happily ever after...in Ikea.We also have another set from the brilliant and unpredictable Niall

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AFRICAN WRITERS' EVENING Friday 16 March 2007, 7.30pm (doors) Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube) 4.00 / 3.00 (conc) --- For the first event of 2007 month African Writers' Evening presents the literary activist, writer and editor Kadija Sesay along with other African writers in this season opening event. The next African Writers' Evening after this will be on May 18,

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WOMEN OF MALIKA'S KITCHENFriday 9 March, 8.30pmToynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street London, E1£6 / £4---Women of Malika's Kitchen performance evening Split Lit FestivalBooking Office : Call 020 7247 2584 oremail: info@alternativearts.co.uk(save£ to book both events that night)MALIKA'S KITCHENMalika's Kitchen is a London writers collective with a sistercollective in Chicago. They are fast

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An early - 7.00pm start - gig for the young former member of B2K. His voice got deeper; go and see for yourself if his lyrics did too... Click for ticketsSearch for more events below: SEARCH Event Venue

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Beverley Knight plays a one-off gig in Coventry, close to her hometown of Wolverhampton. Promises to be intimate and powerful, with lots of atmosphere from the hometown crowd! The show is at the Ricoh Arena and starts at 8.00pm Click for ticketsSearch for more events below: SEARCH Event Venue

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LA LANGOUSTINE EST MORTESaturday February 17 2007, 7.30pmThe Poetry Café, 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX£4.00---La langoustine est morte, London's only night dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returnsto the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 5th instalment of theseries. Continuing the Langoustine tradition of genre busting,original work,

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IAN McMILLAN & ANDY MARTINDate: Wednesday 6 December 2006Location: Logan Hall, LondonWriter, poet, performer and broadcaster Ian McMillan and seasoned image maker Andy Martin have collaborated on an enterprising joint venture of literary and visual authorship.Together they produced a book, 'Ideas Have Legs', in which Andy Martin visually interprets the poetry and prose of Ian McMillan.A mixture

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aromapoetry stage – Monday October 16, 2006 at The Poetry Cafe: 6:15 - 7:15pm: aromapoetry open mike 7.30 - 9.00pm: fiction reading with BBK Rebels - Harry Whitehead, Mary Louise Buxton, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Niki Aguirre, Harriet Fisher and Fran Merivale9.30 - 10.40pm: SHOT - two prose writers read for 15 minutes each ft. Amy Prior & Toks Majek of Tell Tales Venue: poetry cafe, 22 betterton

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Bringing the House Down S*E*L*E*C*TFriday 13 October 2006The Albany Theatre, DOUGLAS WAY, DEPTFORD,LONDON, SE8 4AG, London,Cost: £8/£5 conc/£4 (under 25's)Box Office: 020 8692 4446Website: http://www.myspace.com/bringingthehousedownHEADLINE ACT: Ainsley Burrows Ainsley Burrows is a former member of the world famous NuYorican Café poetry slam team, a highly respected international poet and

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On National Poetry Day the Poetry Cafe hosts two events. Both events celebrate the diverse groups who hold regular readings at the café. Details below:Address: 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX Cost: FREE / £3-4 (evening) Cafe Website: http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/npd/events.htm    Afternoon - Identity Parade (hosted by Nii Parkes and John Hegley)         3-4pm - New Blood / African Writers

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AFRICAN WRITERS' EVENINGFriday 15 September 2006, 7.30pm (doors) Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube) 4.00 / 3.00 (conc) Web: http://www.x-bout.com/awe --- This month African Writers' Evening represents East Africa through celebrated writer and translator Wangui Wa Goro and Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo, whose first collection has just been published by Carcanet.

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Join flipped eye for the launch of Party of Black - the debut mouthmark series chapbook by Truth Thomas - and a celebration of the 7th anniversary of the release of Ainsley Burrows' Black Angels with Sky Blue Feathers.Venue:Bowery Poetry Club,308 Bowery @ BleeckerDate:Saturday September 2, 2006 at 8pm.FREE and open to the public.Travel & Info:F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker | 212-614-

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T'Bone Promotions present "SPEAKEASY RELOADED," North London's premier poetry andspoken word eventMonday 4 September 2006, Marie Lloyd Bar: 289 Mare Street E8 1EJ - next to Hackney Empire Theatre.Entry free: that's right: FREE ENTRYHost and MC: Baden Prince JrThis month's special feature: Andrea Encinas, previewing her one-woman show, "Burnt for Browning".Special guests:Abe Gibson: Poet,

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This Friday 18 August sees the launch of Peckham Blue – a brilliant sequence of poems by talented young writer Susie Gordon – at Island Arts Studio, Herne Hill. Doors are at 8pm and the first set starts at 8.30. It’s gonna be busy, so arrive early to claim a good seat. Entry is £4/2.   In support: Inua Ellams, renaissance man and author of Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales Maggie Sullivan, blessed with

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Thursday 10 August Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - Wizard of the Crow One of Africa's greatest writers, exiled from Kenya for 22 years because of his highly political and acclaimed work including the bestselling novel Petals of Blood, Ngugi returns with his first novel in 20 years, Wizard of the Crow. Set in a fictional modern African state, it is a magisterial, acerbic and humorous landmark of

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