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AWEN EVENTS
2013
Ongoing 3rd Mondays Bath Storytelling Circle
upstairs at the Raven, Bath. 7.45 for 8.15 p.m. Entry free. Contact: David 01225 482170
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Last Friday of the Month (next 29th March) STORY SUPPER Black Book Cafe, Silver Rooms, Nelson St, Stroud 7pm start, 9pm fin.
F R E E ! Bring your fish’n’chips, fishy tales, red herrings, white lies, shaggy dog stories & pork pies! BYO. Hot drinks & cakes available. Hosted by the Bard of Daisybank & Friends. (Stories must be performed , not read; and under 10 mins). Tel: 01453 765660
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1st Wednesday of the month Stroud Writers' Cafe Black Book Cafe, Silver Rooms, Nelson Street, Stroud 1st Wednesday of the month 7-9pm, £3 An informal gathering of fellow writers - prose & poetry, published and unpublished, newbies and veterans - all welcome. In the first half everyone gets 3-5 mins to talk about what they are working on/or give a 'taster' (eg a preview of a recent poem); news and announcements; then mingling/discussion follows f or the rest of the evening. Sometimes we might have a theme &/or a speaker. /|\
One-off Events
Friday 8th March The Rabbit Room a rehearsed reading of a new play about The Inklings written by Kevan Manwaring by Spaniel in the Works. Mr Twitchett's, The Subscription Ro oms, Stroud, 7pm
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Sunday 10th March Tall Tales & High Tea Kevan performs a selection of tales from his Oxfordshire Folk Tales collection. Albion Beatnik Bookstore,
34 Walton St, Oxford OX2 6AA albionbeatnik@yahoo.co.uk
/|\ Wednesday 20th March Song of the Windsmith performance ***part of Steampunk Month*** Raising the Awen, Northampton Labour Club
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Wednesday 20th March Stroud Story Cabaret: The Mouth of the Night. A classic Celtic wond
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Saturday 23rd March The Windsmith Elegy reading by author ***part of Steampunk Month*** Waterstones Northampton12-2pm, free Local-born author Kevan Manwaring is our guest today as part of
Steampunk Season. We are celebrating the publication of the fifth volume in the magical and soaring Windsmith Elegy. Travel with us on a fantastic journey of discovery and revelation! 19 Abington St, Northampton, NN1 2AN Phone:0843 290 8517 /|\
Thursday 28th March Poetry Reading Square Club, Berkely Square, Bristol Performance by Kevan Manwaring (part of a cabaret night hosted by Charles Thompson) 8.30-9.45pm
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Sunday 7th April
The Mouth of the Night A wonderfully compelling collaboration between two virtuoso performers weaving words, music, and song into this multi-layered Celtic fairy tale. Storyteller Richard Selby and musician Bethany Porter (cello, ukulele, and voice) have recently played to sellout audiences at the Bath International Music Festival and the Bath Folk Festival. Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol. 7.45 p.m. £10 (£8 concessions). Tickets: 0117 902 0344, tickets@tobaccofactorytheatre.com
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Monday 8th April Creative Writing (Improvers) The Subscription Rooms, Stroud 10 wks, 7-9pm. New class starts. Booking essential: subscription.rooms@stroud.gov.uk
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Saturday 13th April Writing Magical Fiction PF Wessex Spring Conference Lansdown Hall, Stroud
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Friday 19th April Oxfordshire Folk Tales An evening of tales from the county with storytelling friends Kevan Manwaring and Wayland the Skald in the historic snug bar where The Inklings used to meet and share their words of wonder. Not to be missed! Eagle and Child, St Giles Street, Oxford Also featured in the Oxford Folk Weekend.
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Wednesday 1st May Stroud Writers' Cafe Kicking off the festival, a speakeasy for all writers in the area. On International Workers' Day let us share the solidarity of the word and raise a May-pole of radical grassroots poetry & song. Share your words, your ideas & ink-stained dreams. Whether published or unpublished, a newbie or an old hand, Stroud Writers' Republik needs you! Onwards! Cakes & hot drinks available. BYO.7-9pm Free
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Sunday 2nd May Poetry at the Lansdown Performance by Kevan Manwaring, along side Lansdown Poets, as part of the Bristol Poetry Festival Lansdown Pub, Clifton, Bristol 8.30-10pm Hosted by Charles Thompson
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Sunday 5th May AWEN FORUM: 'Tree of Life' A bi-monthly evening of inspiring talks, poetry, story & song. Q&A, and discussion, prompted by author talk/performances.
Environmental arts therapy and the Tree of Life guides us through the Celtic calendar to explore the relationship between the feeling experience of the human heart and the turning year. Practical, poetic, innovative and magical, it invites us to make environmental art and ritual a vital and healing part of our lives once again and teaches us how to take the personal issues that bind and oppress us out into Nature where they can be met, confronted and transformed.
Speaker: Ian Siddons Heginworth, author of 'Tree of Life: environmental arts therapy; Gabriel Bradford Millar (poet); Jehanne Mehta (music); Anthony Nanson (storyteller)
Time: Sundays, doors 7.00pm, starts 7.30pm Venue: Subscription Rooms, George Room
Cafe/bar opening throughout
Entrance fee: £10 (£8 conc.) Tickets from Box Office Bookings and Enquiries: 01453 760900 /|\
Sunday 7th July AWEN FORUM: 'The Soul of the Earth' A bi-monthly evening of inspiring talks, poetry, story & song. Q&A, and discussion, prompted by author talk/performances. Speaker: Lindsay Clarke, author of The Chymical Wedding; The Water Theatre & others. Helen Moore & Niall McDevitt (ecopoets); Kevan Manwaring (story); The Children (music)
THE SOUL OF THE EARTH An alchemist once claimed that there is more of the soul outside us than inside us, so what are the relations between the human imagination and the soul of the earth, does it have roots in the ecological unconscious, and wherein do the springs of creativity lie? Some thoughts from a novelist who lives with such questions but doesn't know the answers.
BIO: Lindsay Clarke is the award-winning author of The Chymical Wedding, Parzival and the Stone from Heaven, The Water Theatre and other novels. He is an associate of the Creative Writing Programme at Cardiff University, Creative Consultant to the Pushkin Trust in Northern Ireland, and has been Scholar-in-Residence at Schumacher College.
Cafe/bar opening throughout
Entrance fee: £10 (£8 conc. with ID) Tickets from Box Office Bookings and Enquiries: 01453 760900
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Sunday 8th September AWEN FORUM: 'Sacred Activism' A bi-monthly evening of inspiring talks, poetry, story & song. Q&A, and discussion, prompted by author talk/performances.
Speaker: Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope & Radical Passion; Jay Ramsay & Herewood Gabriel (poetry/music) Aidan Andrew Dun & Lucie Rejchrtova (poetry/song); James Hollingsworth ('guitar wizard', The Independent)
Cafe/bar opening throughout
Entrance fee: £10 (£8 conc. with ID) Tickets from Box Office Bookings and Enquiries: 01453 760900
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Awen Publications 10th Anniversary Event Late October ....tbc
Watch this Space!
NB Events may be subject to change. Please check with venue before attending.
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