Literature North West

When : 12th March 2010 - 6:00pm
Where : West Coast Rock Cafe
Price : Free

Word Soup: New Beginnings – March 12th 2010 6pm-8pm – West Coast Cafe, Blackpool – free entry.

Performance Poetry and Open mike in the West Coast Café, Blackpool.

The Lancashire Writing Hub presents Word Soup: New Beginnings – a themed open mike hosted by and with special performance from Lancaster based poet Sarah Hymas at the West Coast Rock Café on March 12th, 2010, 6pm onwards.

This performance brings together They Eat Culture’s Live Literature strand Word Soup and Blackpool’s own 'Dead Good Poets'. The event is funded by a Learning Revolution Festival Grant, managed nationally by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council and is part of Blackpool Council's Cultural Services 'Wordpool' programme.

The live literature event is free and open to the public and gives budding poets and story writers a chance to perform their work to a friendly audience under the expert eye of Sarah Hymas. Sarah is an experienced writer and performer whose first collection of poetry, Host, is due out in summer 2010.

She is currently working with musician Steve Lewis and singer Beth Allen on improvised voice work, and has performed with Lewis at The Harris Museum, the Mammals Room at the Manchester Museum and the Green Room, Manchester. She writes for the theatre company, Gambolling Arena, and her work has appeared in collections, anthologies, magazines, multimedia exhibits, dance videos and improvised operas. As a performer, Sarah says ‘my poetry becomes music; where sound is sense and rhythm is embodied.’

The event includes a special performance of work titled ‘New Beginnings’ by Blackpool and The Fylde College's 'Dead Good Poets' creative writing group. Dead Good Poets are a society founded by students and staff as part of the writerly community emerging from the increasing number of creative writing programmes offered at the college. They host and participate in regular open mike events both in college and within the wider community.

Lancashire Writing Hub is a writing development project run by They Eat Culture which provides writers across the county opportunities to network, develop, publish and perform. The Hub represents all kind of writers, from poets to copy writers, novelists, screen writers, journos and bloggers. Word Soup, the events series for the Lancashire Writing Hub, has developed a series of live literature, panel and performance based spoken word events across Lancashire featuring authors as diverse as Sophie Hannah, Steven Hall, Rob Shearman and Amanda Smyth. Word Soup: New Beginnings is the second open mike event Lancashire Writing Hub has brought to Blackpool in conjunction with Blackpool Library service.

The open mike gives writers of any style the opportunity to perform their work to a wider audience. Come along and see Sarah’s performance and perform your own work. Sign up for performance slots on the night – all welcome.