New Approaches To Spoken Word with hannah Silva

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This is a practical workshop for those excited by the musicality of spoken word performance. We will play with the textures of language, its rhythms and melodies, exploring our natural speech patterns alongside some more unusual ways of manipulating the voice in performance. The session includes writing and performance tasks designed to help poets push at the boundaries of their current practice and to open up the many ways of working within spoken word.

Hannah Silva is a writer and theatre maker whose work often starts from a playful interrogation of language, voice and form. She has performed at the Tokyo Design Centre, Krikri International Festival of Polyphony in Belgium, Poetry Hearings in Berlin and throughout the UK at festivals including Latitude, the Edinburgh Fringe, Ledbury Festival and Stanza. Her solo show, Opposition toured nationally 2011-12 and was described by What’s on Stage as ‘radical, political, courageous’. Hannah has written for Radio 3 and regularly appears on The Verb. Her play The Disappearance of Sadie Jones tours Autumn 2013 and her first poetry collection Forms of Protest is published by Penned in the Margins.

Entry: £7 / free to ARCADE members

Time: 6:30pm