THE CRESCENT | 31ST JULY 2022
: y a D e r i h Yorks f o t h g i N A Arts! PROGRAMME BY FORGE ZINE
Yorkshire Day: A Night Of Arts 2022 Welcome back! It's been a year since our debut event - and what a year it has been! We have published 4 new zines, including our beautiful Spring and Summer 2022 editions. If you haven't got copies yet, you can have a flick through them at our bookstand. In February, we hosted another lovely Night of Arts at The Crescent York in celebration of Valentine's Day. If you weren't able to make it, don't worry - we've got another exciting showcase for you tonight. If this is your first Forge event, you're in for a treat. This time, we are welcoming even more new acts to the stage, including forays into musical theatre and dance. Tonight is all set to be a spectacular night of live poetry and theatre - finishing off with some music to get you up on your feet!
About Us
@forgezine
Forge Zine was founded in May 2019 by a group of Creative Writing students at York St John University. We wanted to create more opportunities for writers like us to get published, other than the dull and stuffy literary journals we too regularly encountered. What started as a small campus project has become an international . quarterly publication. We release issues quarterly, aligned with the solstices and equinoxes, publishing a variety of artistic works from creative people all over the world.
E. Hartley Smith - Event Organiser Elle is the Founder and Chief Editor of Forge Zine. Having completed her Creative Writing BA at York St John University, her love shifted more from writing towards publishing and events management. She developed the concept for Forge Zine in 2019 and decided it was time to attempt hosting an event. Yorkshire Day 2021 was our first Night of Arts, followed by another successful creative showcase on Valentine's Day 2022. A lowkey adrenaline junkie and lover of the seaside, Elle has lived in Amsterdam and cannot wait to get back there, exploring more of this beautiful world we live in (in the most ecofriendly way possible).
Louise Machen - Poetry Louise Machen is a Mancunian poet and a graduate of The Centre for New Writing at of Manchester. Her York has always held a placethe inUniversity Elle's heart, due to this it poetry was to explore relationships and workingevident to her that she likes would study here. In 2016 she class experiences through the use of attended York St John University to study Creative Writing. narrative and visual detail and has most While she loves the process writingin Grand creatively she is recentlyof appeared Little Things, The focusing on her newest adventure of Magazine, bring you theZine, bestand and Olney Forge as a Houseevents Literary. most unique events in York. SoFeatured stay inCreator touch in forFull more like this one in the future. Louise has work forthcoming in the 10th Anniversary Edition of The Poetry Bus and Black Bough Poetry’s Summer Anthology. She has recently been appointed as a reader for theforgezinesubmissions @LouLouMach @forgezine The Pencilhouse. @gmail.com
Tom Allmark - Music Tom Allmark has two passions in life: acting and trains. He received a 2:1 in Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln and co-founded the Sheffieldbased theatre company Hallmark Theatre with JoJo Hall in 2020. Together they hosted their first charity fundraiser event for the National Autistic Society in April 2022. Recently, Tom has taken a more industrial route, trading stage and screen for smoke and steam. But tonight he has dusted off his outfit and is back to reliving his musical theatre dreams. He hopes you will all enjoy.
@allmarkthe27th @hallmark_theatre
Paul Whelan - Poetry Paul Whelan is a poet and publisher from Sheffield. He is the Editor of Acid Bath Publishing and an Assistant Editor for Forge Zine. Having studied in York and London, he is back in the People's Republic of South Yorkshire, where he sometimes writes. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Beyond the Walls 2019 (Valley Press), Over Yonder (Greenteeth Press), York Literary Review, and Ergi Press. @PR_Whelan
@pr_Whelan
N.J. Foley - Poetry N.J. Foley is a writer and musician living between York and Paris. He started writing fiction after ten years of working in the service industry and becoming inspired by writers such as Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter S. Thompson. In 2021, he began writing poetry. His debut collection Welcome Back, Frank is available to pre-order from Acid Bath Publishing.
@nafillet6
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Kate McCaughey - Poetry Kate (she/her) is a Geordie writer living in York. Her writing aims to dissect the nitty-gritty of human qualities, using images of nature and the body to explore these along the way. Her self-published mini pamphlet Remedial (2022) is ‘queer poetry for hungry readers’. She is the cofounder and commissioning editor at Ergi Press and has been published in Middle of Nowhere (Ram Eye Press), the York Literary Review 2022 (YSJ & Valley Press) and written work for the Aldeburgh Festival. When not writing she’s usually listening to punk music or drinking a huge @katealicemcc cup of tea.
@katealicemcc
Joshua Lavender - Dance Joshua is a resident witch and crafts person. He has a keen interest in art, all things woolly and woven. He spins knit and then he weaves it into hand crafted yarn. He is also a lover of dancing, namely tap, jive and his favourite (at the moment) is belly dancing. He began his belly dancing a few years ago. Joshua has been a practicing witch for 20 Fancy having your Tarot years now. Yes, he has a cauldron and the read? Joshua will be hat, all joking aside. He has been studying reading tarots before the herbalism and everything associated with occult for many years. He reads tarot runes show and during the and bones. breaks. Being a witch is my way of life. @flagflaxfodderfrig
James Rance - Poet James is a poet, novelist, and collage artist based in York, North Yorkshire. His poems have appeared in Pondweed and Unhomely anthologies (Greenteeth Press), and his debut poetry pamphlet Bagworm. James has been involved with Forge Zine since its birth in 2019. He has been an integeral part of the team and in doing so he has explored many creative ideas, see his collages in our 2020 editions.
@jrancewriter @james.rance48
Fizz Smith and Tom Horner will be joining musical forces, to bring a soulful performance of all flavours and sauces. One hailing from Sheffield and one from southern quarters. An honest performance of calm moments and long pauses.
Tom & Fizz - Music
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A Haiku - An Intense Repose Choccy on pillow. The sheets corner pulled over. My mind unfolds away.
Thank you! We would like to thank you the audience for attending and supporting our little business. We hope you have had a wonderful time. There is a guest book at the back, please leave us some comments! While you're there have a peruse of what other treasures we have on sale. To keep in touch add us on Social Media to know when our next events and publications are. www.forgezine.bigcartel.com theforgezinesubmissions@gmail.com
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