Char March will be the first guest poet at the launch of Shindig, a new monthly spoken word night in Hebden Bridge compered by Winston Plowes, on Tuesday 17 September. It’s at Nelsons wine bar, in Crown Street. Arrive at 8 for 8.30pm with your four minutes of words to share. More details and map
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Hi Julian, Yes, unfortunately it does. I was aware of this but it was more important not to clash with other much closer events in Sowerby, Todmorden and Halifax and the venue also only had limited days.
steve mellor
Sun 15th Sep 2013 12:25
I look forward to listening to Char March at your new venue. See you at 8
Oh Winston, it clashes with Write Out Loud Sale! Heigh ho.
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winston plowes
Wed 18th Sep 2013 11:59
Ladies and gentlemen, we got off to a brilliant start!
Our opening night at Nelsons Wine Bar in Hebden Bridge (I am not using an apostrophe here as they don’t even though I am developing a nervous tick in doing so) was a glorious success in every way.
A night of poetry is only ever as good as its contributors and on this night people came from Leeds and Manchester as well as Calderdale to hear each other’s words.
Char March lit the blue touch-paper with her usual overflowing mixture of ‘sit up and listen’ realism and wide variety of finely crafted offerings.
Then followed the full list of 17 open mic readings. Time keeping was strict(ish) and we managed to finish near the predicted 10:30 after every poet brought something important and memorable to the floor. Some were reading for the first time, others had the audience laughing or whooping, whilst at other times the silence of attention was deafening.
So, finally we have a new home for performance poetry in Hebden Bridge, which is a receptive and welcoming place to come and read.
Shindig #2 Featuring guest John Darwin will be on Tue 15th October, 8pm for 8:30 start. Be there before the start to book a 4 min slot.
Thank you all so much for sharing. You can contact me if you have any queries about the night, leave comments or send photos if you have any to winstonplowes@googlemail.com And you can read more about my own work by visiting www.winstonplowes.co.uk The Spoken Word Shindig events are also on fb - https://www.facebook.com/events/550136778354695/?fref=ts
Winston Plowes (Compere, The Spoken Word Shindig)
Shindiggers (In order of appearance)
Char March (Guest)
Winston Plowes (Compere)
Jonathan Eyre
Jim Donaghey
Spike
Ian Humphreys
Robert Baylis
Marion Oxley
Steve Anderson
Steve Mellor
Marcus Charlton
Anthony Costello
Eileen Wright
Henrietta Bond
Tony Halsall
Paul Blackburn
David Nixon
Seamus Kelly
Gordon Zola
”The best open mic night I have EVER been to” Jim Donaghy
” Off to a flyer. This will be the creme de la creme of spoken word in the valley” David Nixon
“What a brilliant venue, lovely host and poets… More!” Jonathan Eyre
“ Looking forward to next month” Seamus Kelly