Word Central 9th Birthday!!

Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word.

Presented by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries.

‘Now We Are Nine’ birthday celebration.

Tuesday 29th July, 6.00pm – 7.45pm, at Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD.

Doors open 5.40pm and free entry.

Hosted by Tony Curry with special guest Angela Smith.

Book your open mic slot from noon on Tuesday 15th July via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.

N.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes per performer – it is essential that you stay within this timeframe.

Performance slots are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis from the stated booking time. If they are already filled you will be offered a place on the reserve list.

Our special guest Angela Smith is Welsh by birth but has lived in Hulme long enough to be a Mancunian by adoption, with her poetry influenced by both the Valleys and the city. She began writing at the age of 7, but stopped for decades when a burglar stole her notebooks and her Muse. Inspired to begin writing again by online friends and the welcoming Manchester poetry scene, she has poems in numerous anthologies and the published collection This Is the Me I Would Be If I Dared. Angela loves to play with form and style, as can be seen in her blog here.

Event host Tony Curry is a performance poet, playwright and workshop facilitator. Raised in Crawley by English and South African parents, he has lived and worked in Manchester for three decades, running literature-in-the-community projects with a specific leaning towards mental health and wellbeing. His play, The Teddy Bear, was staged at Manchester’s Contact Theatre, whilst his solo spoken word shows include Brit Boy, Complicit Relations, Moving and The Odyssey, performed at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Tony has recently toured his solo show Tall Tales for All Men, adapted from his collection Tall Tales for Tall Men Who Fall Well Short (Flapjack Press, 2012), at the Brighton Fringe and Chorlton Arts festivals.

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