Scratch the Word
This event on 11th April 2013 at 19:00 has past.
Spoken Word, Live Lit and Video Verse. Oh my!
Join us at Ovalhouse Theatre for this very special 'scratch' event, exploring the exciting creative overlap between Spoken Word, Live Lit and Video Verse. We have brought together a group of some of the most interesting poet-performers, and have asked them to share some of their newest work with us.
Each writer will present a 10 minute sample of their work, and will take part in a panel discussion and Q&A hosted by Spread the Word.
Nick Field writes, devises and performs live art and poetry-theatre. In May 2011 he premiered his first full length show The Cosmos, The Cosmetics at Brighton Fringe Festival, which he then toured to Stockholm Fringe Festival in August 2011, and around the UK. Nick also plays the harp and sings and has a band called Waterpuppet. Nick is currently an Associate Artist at Ovalhouse, London.
Nick Makoha's one-man show My Father and Other Superheroes was showcased in 2009 in London and will soon be seen at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival. Nick has been widely published in journals and anthologies and is the author of The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man (Flipped Eye, 2005). Nick was specially selected to take part in The Complete Works, a national development programme for advanced Black and Asian poets.
Simon Mole ' ...hails from a land between spoken word, hip hop, and theatre.' With an eye for the often overlooked in the everyday, his work is entertaining and accessible but remains rooted in a love of the craft of writing. In 2010 Simon sold out the London run of his full length spoken word theatre show Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair, and is currently one of the lead artists on the Keats House Poets Forum, as well as one fifth of the Chill Pill collective.
Sonority Turner is a poet and artist who works in video and visible verse, spoken word, hip hop and live art. She is a member of various innovative collectives including Keats House Forum and Elephant, and she is a resident poet at Lyrically Challenged.
Paula Varjack is a writer and performance artist. Her work yields a unique fusion of lyrical storytelling and charismatic performance, often accompanied by music or video. For the last three years she has toured extensively, performing in theatres, bars, galleries and cabaret nights across Europe.
Price: £10.00 / £8.00
Time: 7:00pm
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