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10.07.2008 |
Open Mic at The Poetry Cafe - Convent Garden
Open Mic at The Poetry Cafe @8pm
featuring
Poets
Peter Campbell & Stephen Watts
A wonderful opportunity for new and more experienced poets to have their work heard in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. There is a lift to the lower floor and a wheelchair accessible toilet. Smoking upstairs, non smoking downstairs. If you want to read or perform your work you need to arrive between 7pm-7.30pm in order to book your floorspot. The doors will open to other audience members from 7.30pm and the performance will start at 8pm sharp. We do not have a finish time for the event and this very much depends on the amount of people who want to do floorspots. There will be a break half way through.
We are a Nationwide Literature and Performance Organisation dedicated to promoting poetry by Survivors of Mental Distress through workshops, performance, readings and publications.
• £1.50 f loor spot s, £2.50 conc . , £3.50 audience•
For further information contact info@survivorspoetry.org.uk
The Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BX
UK
tel +44 (0)20 7420 9880
fax +44 (0)20 7240 4818
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk
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24.07.2008 |
Open Mic at Maggies Bar, N16
7minutes creative performances of Open Mic at Maggie's Bar @7.30pm
featuring
Sylvia Rox & Eduardo - Poet & Singer
Xochitl Tuck our events organiser has created the 7 minute wonder to stimulate creative poetry performance for open mic spots! Again it's a wonderful opportunity for new and more experienced poets to have their work heard in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
We are a Nationwide Literature and Performance Organisation dedicated to promoting poetry by Survivors of Mental Distress through workshops, performance, readings and publications.
• £1.50 f loor spot s, £2.50 conc . , £3.50 audience•
For further information contact info@survivorspoetry.org.uk
Maggie's Bar
98-100 Church St.
Stoke Newington
LONDON N16 0AP
tel: 077321 77553
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31.07.2008 |
Devon: A Sound Mind Exhibition @ Springfield Hospital
Devon: A Sound Mind.
Exhibition @ Springfield Hospital
Produced over a 3 year period, this exhibition is a documentary on the daily life of a sufferer of paranoid schizophrenia. The photographer and subject hope that viewers will come away with a positive feeling about someone who is suffering from this illness; and to further help, in some small way, to break down the stigma that surrounds it. Also on display is photography recording the regeneration of the hospital as well as photos from some service users.
Date: Thursday 31st July 2008 from 4-8pm.
Place: Springfield University Hospital,
61 Glenburnie Road, London SW17 7DJ...
Nearest Tube: Tooting Bec.
Photographer's comments on the project:
'Over five years ago I was introduced to the Sound Minds project, based in Battersea. This is an organization that uses music and the arts as a form of therapy for sufferers of mental health conditions. It is a charity that has gone from strength to strength and become more and more well known. Devon, along with Paul Brewer, is one of its founding members.
Sound Minds currently have over nine different bands, playing different styles of music; Devon is involved with seven of these! He is himself a singer/songwriter, and plays the guitar and the drums; he's also an actor. I took some pictures at Sound Minds for a magazine, and got to mingle a bit with some of the people there, and I particularly warmed to Devon. I made the suggestion to him then about doing a form of documentary on his daily life. He agreed with the idea, and hence this project was born. I'm privileged to say, that I think I can now call Devon a true friend......'
-Kris Allan, June 2008
Previously exhibited at The ICA, The Photographers Gallery, Grand Central Terminal NewYork, The Science Museum, London, Olympia, The Dutch Institute of Photography in Rotterdam, numerous bars & smaller venues throughout London. Work has featured in The Sunday Times,. The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, Harpers & Queen, BJP & other photo mags, Local press, and various photographic, travel & other books..
Kris Allan is a freelance photographer based in London. www.krisallan.com
Survivors' Poetry understands this exhibition is available to tour - please get in touch with Kris Allan for more information, contact details via his website www.krisallan.c
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