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SUMMARY:Poetry & Spoken Word Open-Mic Upstairs at Wildwood\, 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 upstairs at Wildwood 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. Wildwood serve teas\, coffees and soft drinks as well as beers\, wines\, spirits\, cocktails\, pizza\, pasta\, salads and other delicious food.  \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-22/
LOCATION:Wildwood\, 30 Southgate\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 1DP\, United Kingdom
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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 October 7th 2023 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-17/
LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Zoom Event with Featured Reader Jean Colonomus Followed by Open-Mic
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader Jean Colonomus\, reads from her work followed by an Open-mic\n\n\nJoin us Online with Featured Reader Jean Colonomus 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 would be very much appreciated. \nhttps://wordsoutloud.org.uk/donate \nJean Colonomos began her career in the arts first as a ballerina-in-training and then as a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company in the 1960s.  She segued into writing dance journalism and wrote for Dance Magazine\, the Village Voice and the Soho Weekly News.   \nAt the same time she was writing poems and play.  Ms. Colonomos has won awards in all three disciplines.  Her play\, Black Dawn\, about female victim survivors of the Pol Pot regime\, garnered her and her director a Citation from the City of Los Angeles.   \nShe’s been published in several online and poetry journals such as your daily poem\, Askew\, Spillway and the Avon Poetry Competition edited by Ted Hughes.  Her chapbook is Art Farm published by Finishing Line Press.   \nhttp://www.jeancolonomos.weebly.com \n \nImprint\nA pint-sized six-year-old squirms at the piano \nwhile the teacher instructs her how to play \nHot Cross Buns\, a three-note melody. \n	Preoccupied with ballerina Maria Tallchief\,  \n	who she knows from a photo on a wall \n	at her ballet school\, she deafens to the notes. \n \nAt the end of the third lesson\, she overhears the teacher: \nMrs. Roberts\, you’re wasting your money.  Every time \nI teach your daughter a tune\, she skips off the bench to dance. \n	In the picture\, Tallchief’s head is crowned with  \n	Swan Lake’s iconic white-feathered headband. \n	The photo calls out to the girl\,  \n	a lighthouse illuminating curiosity  \n	where imagination takes the lead.
URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/featured-reader-jean-colonomus-followed-by-open-mic/
LOCATION:Wildwood\, 30 Southgate\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 1DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Seven Up Live Performance Cabaret Event
DESCRIPTION:A Live Performance Cabaret-Style Event at Wildwood in Chichester\, presented by Words Out Loud.\n\n\nMes dames et messieurs\, Ladies and gentlemen. Guten abend! Bon soir! Good evening!\nSeven performers\, giving Seven performances\, each of Seven minutes’ duration.\nSet your clock\, save the date\, book a ticket\, get your coat\, grab a drink\, take a seat.\nThis is Seven Up. \n\n\nWords Out Loud is excited to present a new\, regular\, Performance Event in Chichester called Seven Up. \nThis new show is upstairs at Wildwood restaurant on Southgate \, Chichester from 7:00pm. to 10:00pm. \nThe cabaret style show features Seven performers\,  \ngiving Seven performances  \neach of Seven minutes’ duration. \nPerformances will span the whole range of Performance Art including Music\, Dance\, Drama\, Comedy\, Improv\, Spoken Word and more. \nNOVEMBER LINE-UP  (in no particular order)  \n1) Music from Fate of the Magpie  \n2)  A Tune with a Tale\, from Lisa O’ Brien \n3) Comedy Sketches from Ken & Deni Jones  \n4) Music AND words from Chris Middleton   \n5) Dance from Bethyn Casey  \n6) Theatre from Rob Hall  \n7) Poems from Nigel Bamber \nThere will be breaks in between each performance and time to mingle\, socialise and connect. \nWildwood will have their menu of Pasta\, Pizza and Grilled food available for ordering and their bar will be open. \nTickets cost £10 and are available here on Eventbrite and can also be purchased on the door.  \nDetails of the acts in the line-up for November are below.  \n\n\n\nFate of the Magpie \nFormed two years ago as a duo\, Fate of the Magpie have grown to a four-piece\, acoustic folk/rock band. The members come from a wide variety of backgrounds – Folk\, Irish\, Ukulele\, Rock and Blues. Each starting their musical journey decades ago!  \nThey play a mix of their own compositions and some unusual covers. \nTheir music is derived from a love of poetry and minor keys\, performed on guitars\, whistles\, bass guitar and range of percussion instruments (from Bodhran to Rain stick!).  \nAll crowned by beautifully powerful\, soaring vocals. \nThey can be found gigging around the Hampshire\, Surrey & Sussex borders and beyond. \n\n\n\nLisa O’Brien \nWhen not working nine to five\, Lisa uses the creative arts to restore the fine art of living.  She is a singer\, banjo player and tin whistler in two local bands; Picnic Checklist and Irish tribute act Shamrock and has embarked on her first novel.   \nWith the support of Words Out Loud she wrote and performed in last years ‘Well of Lost Voices’ and regularly tries out her new love of poetry at the Words Out Loud Open-Mic.   \nWith a passion for storytelling Lisa will be performing a tune with a tale; Eric Bogle’s 1972 ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.’ \n\n\n\nComedy Sketches from Ken and Deni Jones \nKen and Deni perform a couple of classic comedy sketches.  \nDeni Jones comes from a long background as actor\, director \, dancer and Lecturer in Theatre \, English and the Performing Arts . Deni is also a Trustee of Words Out Loud.  \nKen Jones has been writing poetry in fits and starts since University (Birmingham University 1970). He moved to Ventura\, CA from England in 2012 where he taught Physics and Engineering to\, mainly\, High School Juniors and Seniors. In 2020 he retired and moved back to England. \nHe was a regular reader at the weekly open mic in Ventura\, was the featured poet at those readings in September 2016 was a performer for the Performance Art program 5x5x5 in Ventura in December 2016\, May 2017 and January 2018. He performed at The Electric Lodge\, Venice\, CA\, in their Max 10 series in April 2017. He hosted a poetry reading and open mic in Newbury Park and Thousand Oaks libraries in CA twice a month. His poems have been used by the English department at Oak Park High School to augment the teaching of AP English Language. In January 2020 he was a founding member and board member of the Ventura County Poetry Project.  \nSince returning to England he hosts an Open Mic on Zoom and in person and is a trustee and founding member of Words Out Loud\, a Charitable Trust based in Chichester to promote the Spoken Word. \nPublications include: Poetry Pacific magazine\, 2016; Poetry Quarterly\, spring 2017 (2 poems) and Summer 2021; a Chapbook\, “One Step Ahead”\, Prolific Press\, summer 2017. Poem accepted for publication in SALT magazine (number 3) in 2022. \nPublications in England include: “Southern Voices”\, an anthology\, 1984\, “Mosaic” magazine\, 1984 and he performed as part of a Poetry reading at the 1984 Chichester Festival.  \n \n\n\n\nWords and Music from Chris Middleton \nChris Middleton is an author\, journalist\, editor\, songwriter\, musician\, and front man of Brighton rock band Space Angel – a polymath\, occasional poet\, photographer\, designer\, and all-round ‘Renaissance man’. \nKnown as a journalist\, public speaker\, and author/editor of non-fiction books\, Chris’ new book ‘An Insignificant Boy’\, published in Winter 2023\, marks a radical departure into literature. \nA poetic\, deeply personal memoir of a lost boyhood: a talented\, imaginative child born into a space age of astronauts\, Bowie\, Kate Bush\, technology\, and sci-fi\, whose life was derailed by his difficult relationship with his ageing father who had been posted to Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. \nAged just eight\, Clix (Chris’ childhood nickname) built a radio station out of junk to ask the outside world for help. \nA true story that his publishers have described as “poignant\, inspired\, assured\, deeply evocative\, yet ultimately hopeful.” \n\n\n\nBethyn Casey \n“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; \nNeither from nor towards; at the still point\, there the dance is\, \nBut neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity\, \nWhere past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards\, \nNeither ascent nor decline. Except for the point\, the still point\, \nThere would be no dance\, and there is only dance.” \nT.S. Elliot\, Four Quartets \n\n\n\nTheatre from Rob Hall \nChichester playwright and actor Rob Hall will be performing . At the moment however\, his act is  a closely guarded secret. But don’t worry\, we’re on it and have an undercover agent ready to spill the beans. Stand by.  \nThank you Words Out Loud for that wonderful and intriguing intro on the website whilst I put together my own.  \nYour agent did manage to spill the beans. While I was cooking breakfast\, he leapt out at me from inside the fridge\, and the beans went all over the kitchen floor. (Cleaning bill is in your inbox.) \nHello. My piece is going to be a mix of theatre and comedy – both of which I have enjoyed and dabbled in for many years. But this will be a first of its kind for both me and for Words Out Loud \nI have called this act “Owning the Cock-Up”. I hope you enjoy it.  \n\n\n\nNigel Bamber \nNigel is a former F1 Engineer and a high-functioning misanthrope. \nDespite a lack of formal training in the art of literature he is a wilful dis-respecter of track limits and writes poetry whenever something jerks his chain.
URL:https://wordsoutloud.org.uk/event/seven-up-live-performance-cabaret-event-2/
LOCATION:Wildwood\, 30 Southgate\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 1DP\, United Kingdom
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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 October 7th 2023 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-18/
LOCATION:The Chapel Café\, Graylingwell Drive\, Chichester\, England\, PO19 6BZ\, United Kingdom
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