BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Words Out Loud - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Words Out Loud X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Words Out Loud REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230825T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230827T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230806T015710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230811T163458Z UID:2736-1692968400-1693152000@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Victorious Festival Portsmouth DESCRIPTION:Words Out Loud will be presenting three days of readings and performances of Poetry and Spoken Word at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth this August. We are delighted to be programming the afternoons in the Literacy Live tent\, from 1pm – 4pm on each day of the festival; Friday 25th\, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th August 2023. \n \n Book Tickets with Victorious \n \n \n \n \n \n Performances take place in the Literacy Live tent\, in the community area \nBetween 1pm – 4:30pm\nLine UpFriday 25th August \n \nTina McNaughton 13:00 – 13:20 \nJez Sugars & Jolene Dandelion 13:20 – 13:40 \nCharlie Rosse 13:40 – 14:00 \nMatthew Hamper 14:00 – 14:20 \nJill Palmer 14:20 – 14:40 \nBarry Smith & Joan Secombe14:40 – 15:00 \nRos Hodgkiss 15:00 – 15:20 \nJack Boyd 15:20 – 15:40 \nBethyn Casey15:40 – 16:10 \nLine UpSaturday 26th August \n \nTina McNaughton 13:00 – 13:20 \nSheila Aldous 13;20 – 13:40 \nKate Cameron 13:40 – 14:00 \nLiz Verlander14:00 – 14:20 \nMike Jenkins 14:20 – 14:40 \nCharlie Rosse 14:40 – 15:00 \nPolly Gaskin 15:00 – 15:20 \nChris Middleton 15:20 – 15:50 \nJeanine Booth 15:50 – 16:20 \nLine UpSunday 27th August \n \nTina McNaughton 13:00 – 13:20 \nHarriet Thomas 13:20 – 13:40 \nWilliam Fontaine 13:40 – 14:00 \nMike Jenkins14:00 – 14:20 \nLucy Stares 14:20 – 14:40 \nKen Jones 14:40 – 15:00 \nCharlie Rosse15:00 – 15:20 \nTom Sykes & Louis Netter 15:20 – 15:40 \nLou Beckerman 15:40 – 16:10 \n \n Book Tickets with Victorious URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/victorious-festival-portsmouth/ LOCATION:Southsea Common\, 29 Osborne Rd Southsea\, Portsmouth\, Hampshire\, PO5 3LR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Victorious-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230818T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230807T093350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230818T101855Z UID:2756-1692381600-1692392400@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Friday Night Live Open-Mic with Words Out Loud at Grayingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Friday Night Live at Graylingwell Chapel presents an ​Open Mic night with Words Out Loud\n\n\nFriday Night Live at Graylingwell Chapel presents an ​Open Mic night with Words Out Loud www.wordsoutloud.org.uk \nCome along and read some of your own poetry or prose\, listen to others and share in the joys of the spoken word. \nFrom 6pm until 9pm \nFriday Night Live at Graylingwell Chapel is free but please book a ticket to help us manage numbers. \nSharing platters should be pre-ordered. Licensed bar available throughout. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/friday-night-live-open-mic-with-words-out-loud-at-grayingwell-chapel/ LOCATION:Graylingwell Chapel\, Graylingwell Drive\, Park\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/98f3ff6e17f80fedc5d3f4b312bdceb9-iRFFZE.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230816T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230816T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230513T230405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T020544Z UID:2513-1692208800-1692216000@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Janine Booth Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Janine Booth\, reads from her work followed by an Open-mic\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Janine Booth with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nTickets are free\, but a £3.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nhttps://wordsoutloud.org.uk/donate \nJanine Booth says that she is a Marxist\, trade unionist\, socialist-feminist\, author\, poet\, speaker\, tutor\, former RMT Executive member\, supporter of Workers’ Liberty\, neurodivergent\, bi\, Peterborough United (men’s footy) and Lewes FC (women’s footy) fan! \nShe has had five ‘proper’ books published: \n• Guilty and Proud of it: Poplar’s Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919-1925 (Merlin Press\, 2009) \n• Plundering London Underground: Private Capital and Public Service 1997-2010 (Merlin Press\, 2013) \n• Autism Equality in the Workplace: removing barriers and challenging discrimination (Jessica Kingsley Publishers\, 2016) \n• Minnie Lansbury: suffragette\, socialist\, rebel councillor (Five Leaves\, 2018) \n• The Big J vs The Big C – issues\, experiences and poems in the battle against breast cancer (Flapjack\, 2019) \nShe writes and performs poetry. As The Big J\, she was part of the ranting poetry movement in the 1980s\, doing more than 100 gigs before giving it up at the end of the decade. In 2014\, she took up the muse again\, and is now a performing angry middle-aged woman poet. 🙂 \nHer six books of poetry can be bought from her website\, here: \n• Mostly Hating Tories: poems by Janine Booth \n• The 3Rs: Ranting Rhyming Revolting: more poems by Janine Booth \n• ’16: the age of discontent – a ranting\, rhyming\, revolting review of the year (also available as a CD) \n• Disaffected Middle-aged Women (currently out of stock) \n• Fighting Tories: The Force Awakens \n• Unprecedented Rhymes: verses versus the virus \nShe active in the RMT trade union\, having previously represented its London Transport members on the union’s National Executive. She was the founding Chair\, and then Secretary\, of the union’s Disabled Members’ Advisory Committee. \nShe is a member\, and former co-Chair\, of the TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee\, and posts reports and news on her website about how the Committee is working to organise and speak up for disabled workers. \nShe particularly works on the issue of autism and neurodiversity\, including running training and giving presentations to trade unionists about Autism / Neurodiversity in the Workplace. \nShe is a former member of the ETF Women’s Committee. \nFrom 2005 until 2007\, she blogged on the Workers’ Liberty website\, and from 2007 until 2011 at Stroppyblog. \nShe lives in Lewes\, East Sussex\, with her youngest offspring\, two cats and two dogs. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-janine-booth-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/e9f641d7b07732735b47552956145bf1-m5iqM0.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230812T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230812T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230812T093503Z UID:2376-1691838000-1691845200@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-12/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230802T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230802T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20220112T012528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230802T030354Z UID:1427-1691001000-1691005500@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION:Come along and read some of your own poetry or prose\, listen to others and share in the joys of the spoken word.\n\n\nArive from 6pm to order drinks and snacks. Open-Mic starts at 6:30pm. \nJoin us for our regular in-person Open-Mic event at Wagtail Coffee and Yoga in Chichester\, West Sussex. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. The event is free to attend and open to anyone\, but a £3.00 donation made on the door would be very much appreciated. \nCome along and read some of your own poetry\, a published poem or even read some prose. Wagtail serve excellent coffee and there is also organic and vegan beer and wine available. \nIt doesn’t matter if this is the first piece you have written or whether you are a seasoned pro\, you will find a warm and supportive welcome as you share your work with us out loud. \nAnd if reading out loud is not for you\, please do come along and enjoy the atmosphere and listen to the readings. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-19/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230729T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230729T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230729T070332Z UID:2375-1690628400-1690635600@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-11/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230719T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230719T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230313T222951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230719T141856Z UID:2380-1689789600-1689796800@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Holaday Mason Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Holaday Mason\, reads from her work followed by an Open-mic\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Holaday Mason with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nTickets are free\, but a £2.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nhttps://wordsoutloud.org.uk/donate \nHoladay Mason is author of six collections– \nTowards the Forest\, Dissolve\, The Red Bowl: A Fable in Poems\, The “She” Series: A Venice Correspondence( with Sarah Maclay)\, The Weaver’s Body \n & two chapbooks– \nInterlude & Light Spilling From its Own Cup. \nHer newest collection\, We’re a Long Time Dead will be published by Giant Claw Press in 2024. \nNominated for three Pushcarts\, widely published\, fine art photographer & psychotherapist since 1993. \nwww.holadaymason.com \nwww.holadaymasonphotography.com URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-holaday-mason-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/48ce6bc132c05a9dc59345a30fa08d4e-fEG1xD.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230715T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230715T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230714T133351Z UID:2374-1689418800-1689426000@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-10/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230705T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230705T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230704T233415Z UID:1426-1688581800-1688586300@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION:Come along and read some of your own poetry or prose\, listen to others and share in the joys of the spoken word.\n\n\nArive from 6pm to order drinks and snacks. Open-Mic starts at 6:30pm. \nJoin us for our regular in-person Open-Mic event at Wagtail Coffee and Yoga in Chichester\, West Sussex. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. The event is free to attend and open to anyone. Come along and read some of your own poetry\, a published poem or even read some prose. Wagtail serve excellent coffee and there is also organic and vegan beer and wine available. \nIt doesn’t matter if this is the first piece you have written or whether you are a seasoned pro\, you will find a warm and supportive welcome as you share your work with us out loud. \nAnd if reading out loud is not for you\, please do come along and enjoy the atmosphere and listen to the readings. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-18/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230701T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230701T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230701T100435Z UID:2373-1688209200-1688216400@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-9/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230621T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230621T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230411T022151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230621T170417Z UID:2463-1687370400-1687377600@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Naomi Foyle Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Naomi Foyle\, reads from her work followed by an Open-mic\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Naomi Foyle with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nTickets are free\, but a £2.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nhttps://wordsoutloud.org.uk/donate \nNaomi Foyle is an award-winning British-Canadian poet\, essayist and science fiction novelist. Her three poetry collections include The Night Pavilion\, an Autumn 2008 PBS Recommendation\, The World Cup (2010) and Adamantine (US/UK)\, which contains poems reflecting on international feminist icons\, Israel-Palestine\, and her own breast cancer treatment in 2016-17. Her fourth collection\, Salt & Snow\, and eleventh pamphlet\, Alphapelago\, are forthcoming in 2023. Active in the British small press scene\, Naomi is the Deputy Director of Waterloo Press\, and the editor of many single authored volumes and the anthology A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books\, 2017). She has read her own work in venues from Babylon to Berlin to Vancouver Island. As Reader in Critical Imaginative Writing at the University of Chichester\, and a longtime denizen of Brighton\, her Words Out Loud reading is closer to home! \nhttps://www.naomifoyle.com/ \nThe Cancer Breakthrough \n \nWill not take place in a lab \nor corporate boardroom; \nwon’t foam in a test-tube\, \nblink in code on a screen\, \nbe hawked for mega-bucks \nby big pharma\, \nor flood the world’s RSS feeds. \n \nThe cancer breakthrough \nis happening now \nand again\, and again ― \nin the echoing space\, \nthat cold ocean of years\, \nbetween one heart \nand another. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-naomi-foyle-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/883f7f5770f5aae64c726fbdc3d0573b-vaR7Rr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230607T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230607T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T033402Z UID:1425-1686162600-1686167100@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION:Come along and read some of your own poetry or prose\, listen to others and share in the joys of the spoken word.\n\n\nArive from 6pm to order drinks and snacks. Open-Mic starts at 6:30pm. \nJoin us for our regular in-person Open-Mic event at Wagtail Coffee and Yoga in Chichester\, West Sussex. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. The event is free to attend and open to anyone. Come along and read some of your own poetry\, a published poem or even read some prose. Wagtail serve excellent coffee and there is also organic and vegan beer and wine available. \nIt doesn’t matter if this is the first piece you have written or whether you are a seasoned pro\, you will find a warm and supportive welcome as you share your work with us out loud. \nAnd if reading out loud is not for you\, please do come along and enjoy the atmosphere and listen to the readings. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-17/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230603T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230603T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230603T070340Z UID:2371-1685790000-1685797200@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-7/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230520T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230520T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230520T054828Z UID:2369-1684580400-1684587600@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-6/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230517T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230517T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230321T232011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T231938Z UID:2438-1684346400-1684353600@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Bethyn Casey Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Bethyn Casey\, reads from her work followed by an Open-mic\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Bethyn Casey with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nTickets are free\, but a £2.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nhttps://wordsoutloud.org.uk/donate \nBeth bleeds with the moon\, dances with tides and writes poetry with the sun rise. \nShe ponders stuff a lot and loves to listen\, connect and communicate. \nBeth lived in a willow tree once and worked on a vegan farm. She likes doing conservation work and she is also a therapeutic counsellor -though not all of the time (beth is learning when to turn the empathy down\, because a woman needs to rest). Beth writes about being a woman\, living wild and claiming ownership of her own body. As a performance artist she has been known to splatter colour shamelessly over the pristine white of her leotard\, becoming a dancing paint brush to the soundtrack of her poetry. \nBeth is fiercely passionate about healing ourselves and our relationship with Mother Earth and though gentle by nature her life experiences have carved a sharp depth of inner resilience and insight which she aims to embody in all her creative endeavours. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-bethyn-casey-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/3303b3f4e702ab0a51561793bb1fecd6-YbfVKr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230506T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230506T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230506T061830Z UID:2368-1683370800-1683378000@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-5/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T040352Z UID:1424-1683138600-1683143100@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION:Come along and read some of your own poetry or prose\, listen to others and share in the joys of the spoken word.\n\n\nArive from 6pm to order drinks and snacks. Open-Mic starts at 6:30pm. \nJoin us for our regular in-person Open-Mic event at Wagtail Coffee and Yoga in Chichester\, West Sussex. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. The event is free to attend and open to anyone. Come along and read some of your own poetry\, a published poem or even read some prose. Wagtail serve excellent coffee and there is also organic and vegan beer and wine available. \nIt doesn’t matter if this is the first piece you have written or whether you are a seasoned pro\, you will find a warm and supportive welcome as you share your work with us out loud. \nAnd if reading out loud is not for you\, please do come along and enjoy the atmosphere and listen to the readings. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-16/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230422T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230422T111915Z UID:2366-1682161200-1682168400@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-4/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230419T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230419T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230227T111400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T024859Z UID:2349-1681927200-1681934400@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Bob Renard Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Bob Renard\, reads from his work followed by an Open-mic.\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Bob Renard with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nTickets are free\, but a £2.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nBob has self-published 6 books of poetry\, and will share a selection of his work with us this evening. \nA retired Psychiatric Social Worker\, he lives in a beautiful part of rural Oregon\, USA\, and in addition to writing poetry and being active in his local writers and poetry groups\, now has the time to enjoy his wide range of other interests. \nHe is a keen gardener\, plays golf\, makes and sells driftwood birdhouses and plays the soprano and baritone saxophone. As if that wasn’t enough\, he has recently purchased a 13ft sail boat and is looking forward to taking to the water on the lakes in spring. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-bob-renard-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/a5cc0089de95673fb0b54a9d5f0a7dc9-FKFoOp.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230408T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230408T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230408T110621Z UID:2365-1680951600-1680958800@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-3/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230405T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230405T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T061956Z UID:1423-1680719400-1680723900@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION:Come along and read some of your own poetry or prose\, listen to others and share in the joys of the spoken word.\n\n\nArive from 6pm to order drinks and snacks. Open-Mic starts at 6:30pm. \nJoin us for our regular in-person Open-Mic event at Wagtail Coffee and Yoga in Chichester\, West Sussex. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. The event is free to attend and open to anyone. Come along and read some of your own poetry\, a published poem or even read some prose. Wagtail serve excellent coffee and there is also organic and vegan beer and wine available. \nIt doesn’t matter if this is the first piece you have written or whether you are a seasoned pro\, you will find a warm and supportive welcome as you share your work with us out loud. \nAnd if reading out loud is not for you\, please do come along and enjoy the atmosphere and listen to the readings. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-15/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230325T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230325T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230309T124003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T234923Z UID:2363-1679742000-1679749200@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects.\n\n\nOn alternate Saturdays\, Words Out Loud facilitates a Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel. The Club is free\, open to anyone whatever their level of writing ability and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with other people who have a shared interest in creative writing\, non-fiction writing or who simply want time and space to develop a writing practice. \nYou may choose to share what you are writing if you wish but most people just want to start or continue with their own project. We are there to offer help\, advice\, support if you need it\, writing prompts if you are stuck for ideas or just be a friendly face. \nCome and join us at the Slay table in The Chapel from 11:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays from December 17th onwards. Find us in the What’s On section of the Chapel website under Activities. No need to book\, just turn up! \nFind out more about Words Out Loud and our events at our website: www.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel-2/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-4F8iwr.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230315T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230315T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215522 CREATED:20230227T110948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230315T171739Z UID:2343-1678903200-1678910400@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Mandy Pannett Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Mandy Pannett\, reads from her work followed by an Open-mic.\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Mandy Pannett with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nTickets are free\, but a £2.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nMandy Pannett lives in West Sussex. She taught children with special needs for many years but now works freelance as a creative writing tutor for adults. \nHer poetry pamphlet ‘The Daedalus Files’ was published by SPM Publications in 2021. Five poetry collections have been previously published: ‘Bee Purple’ and ‘Frost Hollow’ (Oversteps Books)\, ‘Allotments in the Orbital’ (Searle Publishing)\, ‘All the Invisibles’ (SPM Publications)\, ‘Jongleur in the Courtyard’ (Indigo Dreams Publishing). A selection of her poems\, ‘Ladders of Glass’\, was issued by Integral Contemporary Literature Press with English and Romanian parallel texts. \nShe enjoys writing short fiction as well and two years ago won a national competition for Vignette writing. She has also judged competitions for Flash Fiction. Two novellas have been published by Independent Presses: ‘The Onion Stone’ (Pewter Rose Press) and ‘The Wulf Enigma’ (Circaidy Gregory Press). \nMandy was also poetry editor for five years for Sentinel Literary Quarterly and has edited anthologies and poetry collections for them and for Earlyworks Press. She has acted as an adjudicator for national competitions and won prizes and been placed herself in several others. \nShe is currently working on a music/poetry/ art/ film collaboration inspired by the South Downs. \n \n\n\n \n JOIN THE ZOOM EVENT URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-mandy-pannett-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/0cd2bc86191d87c39b43813e6e9cb78a-siyeJS.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230311T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230311T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20230309T124002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T124002Z UID:2362-1678532400-1678539600@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Saturday Writers Club at Graylingwell Chapel DESCRIPTION:Saturday Writers Club\, Join with others in a friendly\, sociable environment to work on your writing projects. URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/saturday-writers-club-at-graylingwell-chapel/ LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/61dcb203e3183bfb5248ac264181b152-JTHRFD.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230301T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230301T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T092051Z UID:1422-1677695400-1677699900@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION: URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-14/ LOCATION:Franco Manca\, 1-3 South Street\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 1EH\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230223T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230223T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20230210T124548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T124548Z UID:2337-1677177000-1677186000@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:The Write of Spring\, Readings on the theme of Spring\, at the Anchor Bleu. DESCRIPTION:Open-mic readings on the theme of Spring in the beautiful setting of The Anchor Bleu at Bosham.\n\n\nEveryone is welcome to come to our event\, The Write of Spring\, at The Anchor Bleu in Bosham on Feb 23rd. The Anchor will serve a light supper for £8 at 6:30 (you will need to call to reserve) and there will be an Open Mic reading\, on the theme of Spring\, upstairs at 7:00pm. \nTickets are free\, but a £5.00 donation made at our website or on the door would be very much appreciated. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/the-write-of-spring-readings-on-the-theme-of-spring-at-the-anchor-bleu/ LOCATION:The Anchor Bleu\, High St\, Bosham\, Chichester\, PO18 8LS\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/a5f0acc94d319bb5973638d9e3414724-FIwzam.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230215T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20230206T201607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230206T201607Z UID:2334-1676484000-1676491200@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Crystal AC Salas Followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Featured readers Crystal AC Salas and Nicholas Reiner read from their work followed by an Open-mic.\n\n\nJoin us In-Person and Online with Featured Readers Crystal Salas & Nicholas Reiner with Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nwww.wordsoutloud.org.uk/open-mic \nCrystal Salas’ collection Of Grief Logic drew these comments from Poetry Judge Emma Trelles: \nThese poems read and sometimes physically appear like a sprawling Latinx pillowbook\, filled with the intimate and honest particulars of family and what it means to navigate language\, landscape\, and girl/woman/hood. This chapbook is all heart\, image\, and sound — and then some.” \n\n\n\nOf Nicholas Reiner’s Levitations\, judge Emma Trelles said: “Equal parts lament\, memoir\, and lyric\, this chapbook is written in a wholly original voice that is as accomplished as it is precise. Each poem reveals another sharply crafted layer of memory and observation — whether about family\, chess\, death\, or how remembering is a way of keeping love intact.” URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-crystal-ac-salas-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/fc2bda8d5c3a1f41a96b5f877247018b-sec94i.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230201T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230201T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T092051Z UID:1421-1675276200-1675280700@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION: URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-13/ LOCATION:Franco Manca\, 1-3 South Street\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 1EH\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T180000 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20230117T230006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T232204Z UID:2322-1674064800-1674064800@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Featured Reader Britta Benson\, followed by Open-Mic DESCRIPTION:Join us In-Person and Online with Featured Reader Peg Quinn & Open-Mic to follow. \nTo Join us Online\, via Zoom\, visit our website and click the ‘Join the Zoom Event’ button. \nBritta is based in Cumbernauld near Glasgow and is gathering a collection\, In Life\, for publication soon. She is a circus skills instructing German\, a writer\, performer and linguist thriving in Scotland\, her chosen habitat since the year 2000. She publishes a daily blog\, ‘Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland’. She also teaches Gaelic and runs an online creative writing group\, The Procrastinators. \nBritta’s Scotland for beginners may be found here: https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/your-stories/scotlands-stories-2022/scotland-for-beginners \nAnd find “Mum’s Shoes” here: https://soundcloud.com/scottishbooktrust/mums-shoes-a-celebration-by \n \n JOIN THE ZOOM EVENT URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-britta-benson-followed-by-open-mic/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Featured Reader ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Featured-Reader-Britta-Benson-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230104T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230104T194500 DTSTAMP:20260515T215523 CREATED:20220112T012527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T092050Z UID:1420-1672857000-1672861500@wordsoutloud.org.uk SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic at Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Chichester DESCRIPTION: URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/poetry-spoken-word-open-mic-at-wagtail-coffee-yoga-chichester-12/ LOCATION:Wagtail Coffee & Yoga\, Church Square\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 7BD\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5df5539f7da353567bf30efce60c0eec.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR