Write Out Loud regular Tony Walsh (see profile) will be compering and performing a newly-commissioned poem at a forthcoming community film premiere at the stunning Lowry Arts Centre, Salford Quays. The event takes place on the evening of Tuesday October 3rd, 2006 with a capacity crowd expected in the beautiful, 1,730 capacity Lyric Theatre.

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The evening is the world premiere of the film "A Knight in Salford" written by local screenwriter Chris Green and directed by award-winning Reel Mcr (Real Manchester) with a talented cast drawn from the inner-city Charlestown and Lower Kersal communities. The cast will arrive in stretch limos and enjoy an Oscar-style ceremony to mark their achievements.

The latest in a series of acclaimed projects with Reel Mcr, these are always entertaining and, for many, profoundly moving events. Tony's performance at the 2005 Lowry premiere of earlier film "Fameless" attracted the following review from Guardian correspondent, Eric Allinson " You could have heard a pin drop...as moving a theatre experience as you could imagine."

Tickets are FREE and available, along with more info, from the Reel Mcr website at http://www.reelmcr.co.uk/. The film and Tony's poem deal with the issue of "respect" and have been commissioned by the area's New Deal for Communities regeneration programme.

Tony's first collection will be published soon by Citizen32. http://citizen32live.moonfruit.com/