Write | Refine | Perform | Create
The
Lyric Lounge Festival Alford Manor House - Alford Saturday 22 October 2011
Dizraeli and the Small(er) Gods Aisle 16 | John Osborne Joel Stickley Grace Nichols | John Agard
Lincolnshire www.lyriclounge.co.uk Box office: 01507 600350
The
Lyric Lounge Saturday 22 October, Alford Manor House, West Street, Alford, LN13 9HT The Lyric Lounge is a vibrant spoken word festival bringing international artists to share the stage with participants and local performers in a spectacular celebration of lyrical prose, music and rhyme. Travelling around the region from Leicester to Derby, Nottingham, Loughborough, Northamptonshire and Rutland - The Lyric Lounge arrives in Alford on Saturday 22 October when the Lounge will be open from 12 noon for lyrical festivities.
Grace Nichols
Work on your writing skills with workshops from top class poets and performers. Get up on the open mic first timers welcome.
Show Starts @ 7.15pm The IGNITE SPOKEN WORD GROUP
has been meeting up for the past 8 weeks to create a set of performance pieces especially for tonight. Come support your local talent!
8.15pm - renaissance one presents Grace Nichols and John Agard
Lincolnshire. From Guyana to the shores of England, Grace and John have provided the world with an honest and poetical insight into the beauty and struggles of their beloved country. Grace’s first poetry collection, ‘I is a Long-Memoried Woman’, was published in 1983 and won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. John is a playwright, poet, short-story and children’s writer. ‘The Young Inferno’ (2008), a poetic reworking of Dante’s Infern for young people, won the 2009 CLPE Poetry Award. Grace and John have over the past four decades produced a body of work to be in awe of. Tonight is going to be a very special night! BOOK EARLY FOR THIS ONE!
Tickets £3 are available from Riverhead Theatre - 10.00am - 1.00pm. 01507 600350 and on the door
www.culturalsolutions.co.uk
Festival
Day events are free 12noon -1pm - Explore and write your own
material with the man himself, Dizraeli. Mash up words, rhythms, sounds in this opening session of the day.
1.15pm - Aisle 16 - Created in 2000, playing Glastonbury by 2002, Poetry Boyband by 2007! Today Aisle 16 stalwart John Osborne offers razor sharp wit, mixed up with lightning lyrics for a Lincolnshire first!
2pm - Dizraeli and the Small(er) Gods
BBC Poetry Slam Winner Dizraeli and his supernaturally talented band, The Small(er) Gods, make hiphop and folk shanties collide in ways you wouldn’t think possible. Expect haunted harmonies and raw words underscored by steel guitars and viola.
3pm - Writing Workshop – Joel Stickley Lincolnshire Poet Laureate offers up his now muchloved take on all things poetical in this unique workshop opportunity.
4.15pm - Lyrical Teatime
This is your time to try out that new poem or piece in this open mic session hosted by Joel Stickley.
5.15pm - Dizraeli and the Small(er) Gods return for what promises to be a fitting close to the afternoon festivities. Dare to leave before the end!
Lyric Lounge Lincolnshire is part of ‘Igniting Ambition’, the East Midlands’ contribution to the Cultural Olympiad. The Lyric Lounge is a Writing East Midlands project. It has been artistically developed by Lydia Towsey. Lyric Lounge Lincolnshire is curated and delivered by cultural solutions UK. It is supported by MLA Renaissance, Arts Council England, Igniting Ambition, Legacy Trust UK and Lincolnshire County Council.