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SUMMARY:The Hip Crowd open mic
DESCRIPTION:Hey! The rumours are true. It’s… \nThe Hip Crowd Open Mic! \n\nOxford Poetry Library and Makespace Oxford bring you an open mic event especially for folks with babes-in-arms\, but also open to all and everyone. \nIf you’re feeling like daytime is the right time for you to entertain or be entertained\, join us at The Community Works on the last Friday of every month. The action begins at 11.30am\, but performers please do arrive from 11am to sign up for your turn on the stage. \nWe welcome poetry\, music\, storytelling\, comedy and whatever else you think might dazzle in a 5-minute slot \nThe entire event will be baby friendly and baby welcoming\, with lots of floor space at the front\, changing facilities\, buggy parking area outside\, and clear walkways to exit the performance area easily if needed.  There will also be that most beautiful and warmly appreciated of gifts: free tea and coffee provided. \nThe event is non-ticketed\, but costs £5 to spectate (£2 for concessions) and is totally free to performers. \nBe there or be square.
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/the-hip-crowd-open-mic-20/
LOCATION:The Community Works Event Space
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SUMMARY:Drafting Table - featured poet session
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Drafting Table\, where we share our emerging poems with each other and provide feedback in a safe and inclusive environment. \nMaybe you have been attending the Getting Started sessions and feel ready to edit your work and develop your ideas. Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next steps in your poetry career. Just bring a willingness to receive and provide feedback with the whole group! \nOnce a month\, we invite a published poet to join us. There will be a short reading of their poems followed by a workshop where attendees can learn more about the creative process\, get an insight into what it means to be a poet\, and share our work with them. \nJune’s featured poet will be Issabella Orlando. Issabella’s multidisciplinary practice engages cultural research\, creative writing\, experimental & documentary filmmaking\, and facilitation to blend storytelling\, research\, and education with creative practice\, poetic writing\, and moving image. Her work enquires into how the past shapes and remains tethered to our present lives through craft\, memory\, landscape\, grief\, and the supernatural. She regularly curates and facilitates creative workshops\, events\, screenings and retreats in London and beyond. \nIssabella’s workshop will explore the theme of ‘ghosts’\, and involve walking to a nearby graveyard. Here’s what this theme means to her and what you can expect from the workshop: \nGhosts have become a permanent fixture in my artistic work and writing in the past few years. I believe they are among us in many forms – lost loved ones\, places we’ll never go or experience the same way again\, exes\, strangers\, made-up worlds\, alternate lives\, versions of ourselves we’ll never be again or ever become\, memories we hold individually and as a collective. \nIn exploring these phantoms of pasts and futures\, alive and among us just beyond the veil\, I’ve discovered that ghosts make for brilliant muses. What’s more\, I’m still wrapping my head around\, is that grief and creativity are deeply connected. Loss is heart opening\, powerful\, spacious. And creativity needs heart\, power and space for new things to be born. Life\, death\, life again. That old chestnut\, tale as old as time. \nI’m so excited to present a very special event where we’ll explore this ancient cycle through storytelling\, creative writing\, and a gathering in a cemetery near OPL. \nIn the first half of the workshop I’ll share my own retellings of a few myths related to ghosts and the underworld. You’ll also hear a few of my own poems set in the graveyards of Oxford and South East London. Together we’ll reflect on the link between loss and new creation\, in both life and creative practice\, and do some guided writing on these themes. \nIn the second half of the workshop we’ll open the floor to your own creative texts and poems in typical Drafting Table fashion\, and I’d especially welcome pieces or questions that relate somewhat to these themes. You’re welcome to bring work both to share and to be reviewed/fed back on by myself and other attendees. \nFeel free to email any queries to opldraftingtable@gmail.com
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/drafting-table-featured-poet-session-14/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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