NEWS

SLAMMERS, the performance poetry event in Westbourne has been cancelled as the venue is too busy to take us.

download our accomplishments to date list as a word document

Events for 2006 are on the events page

Past events from 2003 to the present date are now archived here

Past Events from 2003/2004/2005/2006

55561 Adults Battle of the Bands 2006 - October Mondays at Mr Kyp's in Poole, Dorset. Three heats and a final, a winner's gig and a showcase. Heats Monday 2nd, 9th, 16th October and the final is on Monday 23rd October 2006. Doors 7.30pm, £3 entry. Showcase Monday 20th November featuring Club Le Shark, Numidian Wish and The Longest Day.

A Real Man/Paula Brown Publishing launch with readings from Alan Morrison, David Savoury and Martin Brett - Battersea Arts Centre Mezzanine Room, 2nd November 2006 at 8pm. Entry was free

Launch of The Blood of Others by John Barclay- National Poetry Day 2006, Ottakars Bookshop, Poole, Dorset 6pm.

Poole Word & Book Festival 2005

We are running several events for the Poole Word & Book Festival 2005. The website for this will be pooleword&bookfestival.co.uk. The dates are to be announced. There is a web page on this website for our own events (will be active nearer the time). See festival review on our register page archived newsletters.

Events list:

The People's Poet events

Poetry Elections - to be confirmed
Admission £2 to include a glass of wine or juice.
Trophy prize and free entry to all of the PW&BF events.

Poetry Slam - Date to be confirmed 7:30pm. Admission on the door £2. Trophy prize.

Exhibitions and Workshops from Karin Skold

we also exhibited our care home project at Mitchell House and then donated it to the home in Poole.

Karin Skold has been back to England to work on the Love Yourself Project in Portsmouth in 2006. The project was completed as a pdf book.

National Poetry Day 2006 - Poetry Slam in Portsmouth - winner Marcus Smykowski

55561 Youth Battle of the Bands 06 Showcase gig - Thursday 13th July at Mr Kyp's, Ashley Cross, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. See Flyer Doors 7.30pm Tickets £3

SOUND Youth Music Festival, Fuzzy Bit Festival Site, Verwood, Dorset Saturday 22nd July 2006 from 1pm. Featuring Capdown and Clare Toomey. We are taking this festival on next year but for this year, we are helping out as consultants and hands-on help. See website http://www.musicfestverwood.org.uk Headline CAPDOWN and there is possible a mini bus service for anyone who needs it, if enough interest - details on the website.

AMPfest - Saturday 5th August 2006 at Lighthouse Studio, Poole. See flyer £6 for an all day ticket.

GEEKFEST - Saturday 10th June 2006 - Local arts exhibition across several beach huts in Poole/Bournemouth. Live music.

30th July 2005 AMP access to music day at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts 1pm to 10pm featuring AMP musicians, local bands, workshops in songwriting, drums, guitar etc..See the after-AMPfest newsletter as a pdf file here and see the AMP website for images.

Saturday 30th April 2005 Informal gathering of anyone who wants to come in Sheffield - no particular reason. Please email me for more information if you are free and able to come.

28th May 2005 AMP Performance for the community at the Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts, 2:30pm in the Studio, entry by donation.

Tuesday 19th April 2005 Poetry walk and talk in Poole in connection with Poole Arts Development Unit and Adult Social Services Fourways and Sea View. See web page here

16th April 2005 - Clive Stocker brought some students from Bath College down to AMP at Lighthouse, Poole, to help us out with preparing to perform.

10th March 2005 - Presentation to Mitchell House of the art and poetry project I Was a Fairy

25th March 2005 - Presentation for TXT POETRY event with the Mayor, at the ORANGE shop, Kingland Square, Poole, Dorset at 9am.

Dave Fenton celebrated the Chinese New Year with us at Fourways with a Martial Arts demonstration.

Saturday 29th January 2005 - our first Partnership practice session for AMP at the Lighthouse - AMP musicians only.

Saturday 5th February 2005 (8pm) PRE-Launch of Glimpses of Notes by Alan Corkish (with an art exhibition but the book is still in manuscript stage - being typeset), Winter Magazine from Edge Hill and TPP Anthology III in Liverpool at the Everyman Bistro. Proofs of Andrew Taylor's forthcoming Cathedral poems should also be on display and there will be a selection of our books to have a look at.(NOTE: has been postponed from 20th November).

Monday 7th February 2005 for one week Poole Central Library - Display of care home project drawings and poetry I Was a Fairy by Paula Brown, Karin Skold and the residents of Mitchell House. The work will then be donated to Mitchell House permanently.

Thursday 10th February 2005 - Celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Rooster. Many thanks to Dave Fenton - this is leading up to a bigger performance piece in 2006. See poster.

Tuesday 25th January 2005 Burns' Night - If you have never celebrated Burns' Night before, take a look at the BBC website page here. You can download our placemat here, to give you some ideas.

e-positive - FREE poetry and art e-book by and for sufferers of mental health issues to promote positivity.

Care Home Project with Karin Skold - poetry and art in November 2004.

1st to 10th October 2004 (with one pre-festival event on Wednesday 29th September) Poole Word and Book Festival events.

Collect the official brochure for Poole Word and Book Festival from me at home or from any of the festival partner organisations (WHSmith, Ottakars, Central Library, Waterfront Museum in Poole)

Download the poetry elections poster Download our TPP events brochure

Download an Edible Books application form

This year, our festival book will contain poetry walks and some recipes inspired by the areas we walked in and produced by our Resident Chef. We are holding a text poetry event with a new iTag, where short poetry and Haiku can be texted to us throughout the festival, to be made into an ebook, available free online, and a print published book after the festival. We are once again holding our poetry slam (see last year's slam images) and poetry elections and we will be taking Les Merton from Poetry Cornwall on a tour of Poole to take in some day centres and care homes, to involve some people in the festival who may not otherwise have been able to come out for it. Paul Taylor of Trombone poetry will be coming along to wow us with his jazz trombone and poetry combination and he shares the spotlight with Les Merton, who will be completing his World Tour of Poole on the same night. We are holding an edible books festival day on the last day of the festival download your entry form here and we are once again helping Ottakars with their poetry competition locally. Our art exhibition this year will feature the fabulous, colourful Folk Art of Oliver Curran as a DVD exhibition and Rufus Dawson, this year's cover designer for Anthology 3, is also exhibiting a breathtaking ten paintings at the Study Gallery. Elizabeth Kay, author of the teenage novels The DIvide and Back To The Divide will be coming along to sign your books and answer all of your questions about the characters. She will also do some readings from the books. We have been assisting with a poetry film project called From Shanty to Rap, which will be displayed on a DVD at the Study Gallery throughout the festival.

Events:

Shortly after the festival, we will release our poetry walks publication.

Throughout the festival - Oliver Curran's DVD exhibition, Rufus Dawson's exhibition, From Shanty to Rap film project - all on the top floor of the Study Gallery.

See the local leaflets for details of our txtpoetry competition to win a new mobile phone from Orange! Most of the entries will be collated into a book to be released in December. Click to enlarge the images below.

Wednesday 29th September at 7pm Poetry Elections at The Study Gallery in Poole. £2 entry to include refreshments and a voting slip (bring a pen or pencil!).

Friday 1st October at Ottakars bookshop in Poole 3pm-5:30pm: Book signing and readings with Elizabeth Kay, author of the teenage fantasy novels The Divide and Back to the Divide - due out later in the Summer 2004. Please bring your books along for signing! Elizabeth also contributed poetry to our Listening to the Birth of Crystals anthology.

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd October throughout Poole's Day Centres and care homes: Les Merton's World Tour of Poole. Free to participating day centres.

Monday 4th October 7pm Poole Lighthouse Studio: Les and Paul's Big Night Out - Les Merton of Poetry Cornwall and Paul Taylor of Trombone Poetry) £3.50/£2 concessions.

Thursday 7th October (National Poetry Day) Ottakars, Poole 6pm: Poetry competition results. Free.

Saturday 9th October Poole Lighthouse Function room 1-8pm (upstairs - entry fee taken on the door, NOT at the Lighthouse booking office) Poetry Slam. £2.50 entry to all, including participants.

Sunday 10th October at The Dolphin Shopping Centre, Poole 10am - 1pm: Edible Books Festival Day. Single entries invited of a book made from edible components or something edible made into the shape of a book or even a whole meal or feast as described in a book (please being the book with you)- £1 to enter a single person entry. Group entries on the same theme can be from two people partnering up to enter right through clubs and groups, on to businesses and schools, hotels and restaurants. These group entries are £3 to enter. There are trophies for the best entries in each category as judged by our resident Chef, Richard Markham. Entry form to download here.

Newly Confirmed! 1st October to 10th October Art Exhibitions at the Study Gallery by Oliver Curran (on DVD) and Rufus Dawson - see image below for The Study Gallery, Poole .

Launch of Muddy Paws Saturday 1st July 2004 at 6pm

Muddy Paws launch at Margaret Green at Church Knowle, near Corfe Castle, Dorset was held on 31st July in the evening at 6pm, to make the most of the gorgeous grounds at the Margaret Green animal sanctuary in Dorset. All are welcome to this event. Please come along and discover the sanctuary for yourself! News! This book is complete and in the office.

28th and 29th August 2004 - Kultureshock! at Suffolk County Showground. The exhibition itself is free but you have to pay to come into the car show itself before you can access the exhibition.

Kultureshock! see the website

28th and 29th August 2004 for car show participants, Sunday 29th August for the Public show.

To continue with our tradition of highlighting art in unusual places, we are going to be holding an art exhibition at Suffolk Showground as part of the NASC Streetrod Nationals Car show which is all about custom culture art. There will be sculpture, prints, pinstriping, paintings, clothing design, furniture - all tyes of art related to the lifestyle which is Custom Culture. The exhibition is free but you do have to pay to get into the car show itself. The exhibition will be in one of the buildings on site and will be well signposted. Plus of course, you get to see the greatest modified and American car show in the UK at the same time! If you have any suitable art, NASC members and traders at the car show may exhibit for free - all others may exhibit for 5% of sales and the art must be with us on our setting up day of Friday 27th August. If you are attending the car show and staying for the weekend, the exhibition will be open to you between the cruises (1pm to 4pm approximately) on Saturday 28th August and on Sunday 29th August 10am to 4pm. The public show day is on Sunday 28th August and the exhibition will be open to the public from 10am to 4pm.

1st July 2004 8pm and the Everyman Bistro see press release - Listening was launched in Liverpool.

Friday June 4th 2004 - Listening is featured on Radio Merseyside's First Friday programme.

Thursday 22nd April - 11am - 3pm at Holton Lee - Sculpture in wood and wire workshop with Karl Graham

Sunday 11th April - Karin Sköld from Sweden came to visit us. Karin is our illustrator. Click here for the photograph page of us having fun and meeting Clive, our composer.

Monday 31st May 2004 - AMP project providing live music at Verwood Carnival.

1st June 2004 - Recording for Radio Merseyside's First Friday programme for Listening

Download our Poole Word and Book Festival Events Brochure 2003

July 16th - 7pm to 11pm See Me Hear Me book launch at the Poetry Cafe

Press release

Brochures for all PW&BF festival events are available at Ottakars, WH Smiths and Poole Library.

press release

brochure

press release

This will be auctioned off for The Mayor's Fund at Ottakar's bookshop in the evening, where the Ottakar's Poetry Competition results will be announced.

October 17th all day Poetry Workshop with Paula.
Adult Education Centre, Oakdale

All welcome, no pressure to read or write on the day. Writers from all over the World have contributed to the material for this workshop.

November 8th 7pm to 11pm Launch of TPP 2004 & Magic Light

Mosborough Hall Hotel, Sheffield Best Western

Date/Time TBC Launch of Listening to the Birth of Crystals Venue TBC

Events shelved for the moment:

Tuesday 8th March 2005 International Women's Day. In partnership with Poole Arts Development Unit & The Study Gallery, Poole, we are launching an arts project (in Poole) to explore how women of all ages feel beautiful in themselves, and to see how influenced we might be by the media portrayal of beauty. The theme 'Beautiful' is going to be used as a medium to explore self-image and to offer the opportunity to try some exciting arts-based college and further education courses and workshops for free, to welcome and support some women back to education for self-improvement as well as for employment prospects.

We aim to launch the project by introducing it to the public on International Women's Day, March 8th 2005, with art and craft based displays and participation opportunities.

This will then move on to the workshop and taster-sessions phase, where we will be offering heavily subsidised or free sessions to enjoy the facilities and artists' involvement to create some original work to explore the theme of beautiful. We welcome contributions, even if you are unable to attend the workshop sessions! This could be through:

• video diaries
• e-mail
• photography
• photo manipulation
• craft
• poetry
• art pieces
• spoken statements, texts or telephone messages
• short essays
• post-it notes
• workshops
• print making

We will be taking workshop sessions round and talking with the residents and visitors of and to several care homes and day centres, groups, schools and organistaions, in order to reach as many women in the community as possible.

The theme of the project is to promote positive self image to women of all ages through art and to encourage self-improvement through positive self-image and education. All completed work remains the property of the artist who created the work. Further information will be available on 8th March 2005. We at The People's Poet will present an engraved trophy to the completed piece of art, which is voted to be the most significant in promoting or inspiring positive self-image for women.

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