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SUMMARY:Word Central with special guest Zena Barrie.
DESCRIPTION:Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word. \nPresented by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries. \nDoors open 5.40pm and free entry. \nHosted by Tony Curry with special guest Zena Barrie. \nBook your open mic slot from noon on Tuesday 3rd February via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk. \nN.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes per performer – it is essential that you stay within this timeframe. \nPerformance 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. \nOur first special guest of 2026\, Zena Barrie\, lives in Manchester and is the founder and co-director of Camden Fringe. She co-hosted the award-winning spoken word night Verbose\, and ran the Gtr Manchester Fringe for a few years\, the King’s Arms Pub and Theatre in Salford\, and the Etcetera Theatre in Camden\, as well as working in a wide variety of roles at the Edinburgh Fringe. Her novel\, Your Friend Forever\, was published in 2021\, and her book of short stories\, Two Similar Looking Men with Umbilical Hernias\, illustrated by Claire Robinson\, was published in 2025.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/word-central-with-special-guest-zena-barrie/
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SUMMARY:Voiced & IMLD26: Polari and Poetry in Manchester
DESCRIPTION:Voiced\, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages\, presents an unmissable evening of Queer poetry and performance.\nPresenting Polari\, a hidden language of Queer experience\, which will come to life in performance with Jez Dolan. Rosie Garland performs poems from Polari Prize-shortlisted What Girls do in the Dark and her recently published This Is How I Fight\, an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. And poet afshan d’souza-lodhi
explores Queer language through her mother tongue Konkani\, a minority and national language in India. Join us for this electric evening exploring the intersections of Queer languages\, poetry and performance. \nAbout Voiced \nThis event is part of the Voiced: The Festival of Endangered Languages. Through poetry\, performance\, talks\, live events and visual art\, the festival brings together a remarkable line-up of artists whose work marks the vast impact art has on language and language has on art. Co-Curated by Sam Winston and Chris McCabe\, please see the full programme on the pages below. \nAbout the performers \nRosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. An award-winning poet\, novelist and short story writer\, she is frontwoman for post-punk band The March Violets. Her four historical novels include The Night Brother\, described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter” & The Fates\, her queer retelling of Greek myth. Latest poetry collection This Is How I Fight was Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Val McDermid named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT+ writers\, & in 2023 she was made Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/voiced-imld26-polari-and-poetry-in-manchester/
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CATEGORIES:Heritage,Poetry
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