Events for Sunday 18th June 2017
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11:30 am
Small Worlds
Stewart Carswell and Nathan Smith present poems exploring the intimate worlds of relationships, nature, and domestic settings.
Find out more »12:30 pm
Speed Poetry
A 2-hour poetry workshop in which participants will learn to get past their inner critic using speed poetry - a form of poetry exercise in which you write with stimulus for different lengths of time, creating a number of poems during a very short time. The activity will take the form of a series of exercises followed by opportunity to share work.
Find out more »1:00 pm
Fifty Grades of Shame
A show about bad writing, bad sex, bad romance and quite a few bad dates.
Find out more »2:30 pm
Sakura
Once upon a time, a boy met a girl, or a girl met a boy and fell in love with him, or did he fall in love with her? Most stories start like this. A face. Eyes touching eyes. A few shy smiles. But there is the way skin can smell after bodies spent all day running in my forest. And there is the iron tang of blood. My name is Sakura. I'm the tree who listened.
Find out more »3:00 pm
You Tell Your Story
A mix of practical exercises and examples that will have you feeling energised, confident and ready to tell your own story in your own unique way.
Find out more »4:00 pm
We Play for Food (The Antipoet)
A wry blend of anarchocynisism and comic observation, 'The Antipoet' are the world’s finest exponents of beatrantin’ rhythm ‘n views! they tirelessly tour the poetry, comedy and music circuits, and have appeared at countless festivals including, Glastonbury, Edinburgh, Camp Bestival, Ledbury and Larmer Tree and are happy to play for food.
Find out more »7:30 pm
Cambridge Bardic Trials 2017
It’s time again to choose a voice for Cambridge! Five compete to become Cambridge Bard for a year. Any word weaver (poet, storyteller, comedian, dramatists, singer/songwriter) with a voice and the power to use it can apply who lives within a day’s walk of the centre of Cambridge.
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