Rise! Spoken Word at The Bureau

Open Mic Event

Contact: janeycolbournepoet@gmail.com

Rose Condo headliner
featuring
Guerrilla Lips (Gerry Clarkson)
Roz Weaver
Hosted by Janey Colbourne

Plus poetry open mic slots available to book from 2nd November 6pm.
Please email janeycolbournepoet@gmail.com to book.
A ticket must also be purchased.
When slots are full a place on the reserve list will be offered.

Headliner:

Rose Condo

Rose Condo is an award-winning Canadian Spoken Word Artist living in the UK. A multiple slam champion, she has performed at spoken word nights and festivals throughout the UK and internationally since 2013. Her debut poetry collection, 'After the Storm' is being published by Flapjack Press and will be available in November 2020. For more info visit www.rosecondo.net

Featured poet:

Roz Weaver

Roz is a spoken word performer and internationally published poet living in West Yorkshire, England. She has been published in a number of journals, zines and anthologies, including most recently with The Resilience of Being, Disquiet Arts and Token Magazine. Her work has been on exhibit with Chicago based Awakenings Art Gallery and London Design Festival, and she has performed at Leeds International Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her first poetry collection, Smoke the Peace Pipe, was released by Yellow Arrow Publishing in August 2020.

Featured poet:

Gerry Clarkson (Guerrilla Lips)

A graduate in International Journalism, Gerry describes himself as a grass roots poet with an introspective global perspective, who delivers “searing” bullets of truth with an often brutal, but always beautiful honesty. Of mixed African/Caribbean heritage, Gerry grew up on a suburban council estate in Liverpool, which has influenced his writing. His work covers topics such as race and ethnicity, gender and perceptions of masculinity as well as exploring issues influencing our current social and political climate from a very personal perspective.

Wigan poet George Melling described Gerry as, “An exciting new breed of poet who will raise you to the rafters then slowly bring you back down to earth before delivering his coup-de-grace.” And claimed he was left “shaking” after attending one of his performances.

Event host:

Janey Colbourne is a spoken word performer who grew up in Blackburn, and has been a regular at the Bureau’s Artspace open mic. She was recently a featured performer at Wigan Diggers’ Festival, Truth to Power Cafe, We Shall Overcome, That’s What She Said, and King St Festival, Manchester. She is a regular contributor writer for Earth Pathways Diary, and has a poem published in the anthology Peterloo Poems by Manchester People. Janey sees spoken word as a means to connect and empower communities, whilst also having fun.

Price: £5.00

Time: 7:00pm (Zoom open 15 min before start)